I chose the Byzantine Empire because of their overwhelming culture and wars with Muslims over the years. They were originally part of the Roman Empire until it was divided. Much of their people were Christians‚ who were also Greek-speaking. The Byzantine Empire existed for more than a thousand years. The empire declined in the fifteenth century‚ with the Ottomans conquering much of their land. The display below is in a scene within a casual living room of a family that may have lived in this
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In the fourteenth century‚ in modern-day Turkey‚ there was an empire called the Ottoman Empire. They were a small army in the beginning of their journey. They wanted to rid of the very strong empire known as the Byzantine Empire. The first leader that the Ottomans had was Osman. He was the creator and founder of the Ottomans. In the beginning of their war‚ they were stronger than most any other armies because they had a powerful short bow that other armies did not have. In the 1300’s they had captured
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In American History‚ we are currently studying the concept of sectionalism. Sectionalism is division within a country based on regional beliefs and interests. In the early to mid 1800’s‚ sectionalism in America grew as slavery divided the nation. Slavery was ignored‚ compromised and argued about by the states until the conflict drove our country until the Civil War. Although regional differences are not as distinct these days‚ many issues are currently causing division among the states and people
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date: In the 1800s inventors were interested in capturing sounds and sending them across space without wires .While others wanted to capture sound others wanted to sell it to other places. The growth and development of radio has been gradual over the decades . Radio developed out of pre-existing technologies that is ;telephone and telegraph .It was believed to have originated in 1873 when James Clerk Maxwell wrote his electromagnetic theory
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The slave is now the owner’s property. The first auction in the United States was on March 3 in the 1800s. Field slaves worked the most‚ working from dawn to sunset. Field slaves harvested hemp and cotton. A house slave was given more respect than a field slave. House slaves got better food and better clothing. A house slave lived with the plantation
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Around the 1800’s‚ a child’s education was limited to what the parents knew and learned‚ the knowledge of life skills taught by the parents at home. This source of education was based on what the parents knew and had learned to succeed in the future of the times. As the years continued to pass‚ and times began to change the homeschool setting changed to provide the proper education‚ children needed‚ however‚ still in the home setting. The regulations and laws for compulsory education are there just
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The first is more political and economical rather than cultural - money and power. Most of empires‚ states and civilizations have allways tried to invade others‚ or at least spread their influence to get economical and policital profit. With the western culture the best historical examples are probably conquest of The New World‚ Africa‚ Australia‚ and so on. They didn’t go there mainly to dominate the native cultures‚ but to gain money from local resourses and political power. Now we might ask why
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Gender Paper In the early 1800s‚ women from different races and classes have had to fight for the rights that the modern women now possess through rigorous battles against an unfair patriarchy. As more and more people started arriving from Europe to America‚ the American population skyrocketed. This increased the need for land for the growing American population immensely. Led by Andrew Jackson‚ the relocation‚ and removal of Native Americans started to take place in 1930. Native American tribes
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Before the nineteenth century transportation was a very hard and daunting task to do unlike in today’s world where it is fairly easy and fast to travel from place to place everyday. Back then there was only a few ways to transport people and goods around the country such as Horse and buggie or by boat. Transporting goods around the country was a much slower and longer process to do back then than it is today. Soon after during 1970 new ideas were being created to provide a faster and quicker ways
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2013 Failure of Spanish Armada In May 1588‚ the Spanish Armada left the Portuguese port of Lisbon‚ headed for England with more than 130 ships. Since their discovery of the New World almost 100 years before‚ the Spanish had built one of the wealthiest and most powerful empires on earth. King Philip II of Spain wanted to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England for both political and religious reasons. Elizabeth had assisted the Protestant rebels in the Netherlands to overthrow Spanish rule in the region
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