its relationships with Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire‚ causing Russia’s leaders to respect and imitate Western Europe while competing with the European powers to fill the power vacuum of the failing Ottoman Empire. Russia emerged as a significant power during the 1500s through war. It fought its neighbors and expanded its territory aimlessly. Ivan the Terrible’s expansion brought him into contact with both Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Aiming to gain a port and outlet to the Baltic
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In the 19th Century‚ European society underwent great changes due to industrialization. Manufacturing readily developed and began to take over the traditional economic activities of European countries‚ agriculture. This caused many European communities economic production to shift from homes and small shops‚ this in turn led to the creation of many new factories. Due to this major transformation from "agricultural societies" to modern "industrial societies" much of the European populace relocated
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Balkans from the 19th century to to the end of World War One. Changes that resulted from these impacts were political change‚ and economic change. The causes of these movements‚ and awakenings were many different issues. The first cause could be considered the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire for many years was very strong to begin with it had‚ strong sultans and a working millet system. After the 1699 defeat however by the Hapsburg Empire (Britain) the empire goes into decline
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Factors that Contributed to expansion? There were reasons for our westward expansion in the 19th century. One reason was our belief in Manifest Destin. Manifest Destiny: Definition The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents Identify the territory of US expansion? ? Gold Rush 1848-49 Facts 1.The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush 2.A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted
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Racism‚ it started so long ago and still goes on now. It’s just stupid‚ hating people because of their color is wrong and it doesn’t matter which color does the hating‚ it just plain wrong. It’s not about being black or white because we are all human. Through out trials people‚ found out their flaws in jury cases such as Dred Scott v. Sanford‚ Plessy v. Ferguson‚ and Brown v. Board of Education ‚with people fighting for justice ‚freedom ‚rights and beliefs. In 1846 a slave named Dred Scott and his
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Unions put forth their demands and got involved in protests and liberal democracy arose as the central system of European politics from the second half of the 19th Century. Several labor unions progressed into mass‚ centralized‚ national organizations. Additionally‚ efforts were made to increase voting rights during the mid-nineteenth century. Most importantly new women movements were introduced; women pushed their securities through self-governing organizations and methods of direct action. In Britain
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Emerging from an era of peace and prosperity in Paris‚ the gothic style seen in Europe is a result of the rapid growth of cities‚ increasing the number of civic architecture present in Europe‚ and the emergence of the stylized and ornate christian cathedrals from a previously unseen class of patrons‚ including the Church of England‚ which hasn’t been seen at any other point in time. With the rapid growth of cities and towns‚ the cathedrals became the center focus of the town in order to build trade
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The increase in sectionalism and the tensions that arose from it was surprising to me because I naively assumed the United States was for the most completely united at this point in Antebellum America. The political polarization and its dramatic impact on the political landscape of the 1850s was very interesting to learn about. The creation of two political parties‚ Democrats and Whigs‚ really cemented the notion of the divide between North and South. The rise of such parties as the Free-Soil Party
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Nationalism is when a person has pride from where they come from. This played an immense role in the accomplishments of the British people from 1815 to 1900. One of the main reasons for the British people being nationalistic was Queen Victoria. Although Queen Victoria’s husband died just 24 years after she took the role of the queen‚ she was able to inspire the British people to create three of the most famous sports in the world. Sports such as soccer‚ tennis and cricket. Without nationalism‚
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Even in the early infancy of America‚ it is evident that it’s people desired to expand and grow their tiny nation. The New World held so many opportunities for the foreign people with its abundance of land. Though the prosperity of expansion was a major factor‚ moving into the unexplored land was a cause for most of the countries battles. But‚ the people’s craving for land was insatiable once they started to branch out. Land was power‚ and the more you had the better off you’d be in terms of foreign
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