typical day like for workers at the Triangle factory? 2) In what ways was this workplace dangerous? 3) How much money did the workers earn? For what reasons did bosses dock workers’ pay? 4) Why did Blanck and Harris believe that their empire "was under constant siege"? What forms of competition did Blanck and Harris face? 5) Why did the Triangle owners keep the factory’s Washington Place exit locked? 6) What does historian Steve Fraser mean when he says that the bosses treated
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How was the Hunnic Empire destroyed in the Battle of Nedao in 454 AD? The fall of the Hunnic Empire is very momentous because they were such a superior force compared to others at the time that the Hunnic Empire was seen as a force to be reckoned with. I believe the reasoning behind the destruction of the Hunnic empire in the Battle of Nedao in 454 AD is because of the disarray of leadership following the death of the former acting leader‚ Attila the Hun. Following the death of Attila‚ the Hun
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Roman Empire and the Abbasids differed greatly they both still declined due to internal and external factors‚ such as the government and economy failing‚ foreign invaders‚ and reasons caused by the people. Even though both empires suffered to causes that were similar‚ the two inevitably ended differently. The Roman Empires government suffered from political uncertainty and the moving of the capital. The Roman army steadily began to grow weak‚ while the population declined and the Roman Empire could
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Gunpowder Empires DBQ Before the 1700s‚ three of the major empires were called the Gunpowder Empires: the Ottomans of Turkey‚ the Safavids of Iran‚ and the Mughals of India. Although the Ottoman‚ Safavid‚ and Mughal Empires had strong bureaucracies and economic prosperity‚ they also had absolute rulers who denied their citizens basic civil rights. One of the strengths of the Gunpowder Empires was their strong bureaucracies based on meritocracy. Jahangir‚ a Mughal Emperor‚ stated that “where I
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The Ottoman empire is one of very few empire to be successful with Islamic belief. The sole purpose of this paper is to explain how did the Ottomans rose to be powerful and how their relations with the western world lead to the westernization of the Ottoman empire‚ which lead indirectly to the collapse of that significant empire. The paper attempts to answer the question: Critically discuss the rise of the Ottomans‚ their institutions and their relations with Europe. This paper argues that if the
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of classical empire? Classical empire is a broad expansion with centralized bureaucracy with city-states. The first classical empire was around 1000B.C.E. There was an increase in population growth during the classical empire such as increasing food and agriculture. The empires I will be discussing is Rome‚ China‚ and Persian. All of the empires have something in common. The Roman Empire were a major event in the Ancient Rome. Rome grew from a small town in Central Italy into a empire. In the beginning
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The Ottoman Empire was a successful frontier state‚ which was named from the Osman Bey. Being placed on the border of Byzantine empire‚ the Ottoman had the opportunity to wage war. In 1326‚ the Ottoman had their first great success by capturing the Anatolian city of Bursa. With this captured‚ Anatolian became one of the Ottoman principality. Adrianople became the second capital and also was place as the base for further expansion. “The downfall of the Ottoman empire has developed as an outcome of
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Comparative: Roman and Chinese Empires No matter where an empire is located‚ maintaining a vast empire always comes with many hardships‚ and the Roman and Chinese Empires were no exception. In the time of city-states‚ the Romans had developed a Republican form of government‚ which successfully met its needs. However‚ the Romans failed to develop a new form of government that catered to the demands of an expanding empire‚ resulting in the fall of the Republic‚ and Roman emperors were never able
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Ostrogorsky‚ the “breathing space was not spent in conservation and consolidation‚” but it was a nice break time‚ although the empire had some “heroic achievements” and had a peace time. According to Ostrogorsky‚ “the ineffective successors of Basil II were not capable of carrying on the struggle against the feudal magnets.” “The economic and social structure of the Empire underwent a radical change.” “The landed aristocracy had won the game and the only question which remained was which particular
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influence on people´s personality features‚ clothing has become what. Over the 50’s and 80’s decades‚ it was suffered as many changes as the history its self has had. The main point on this essay is to compare or contrast the 80’s and 50’s fashion tendencies‚ and representative trends. First of all‚ I found remarkable to notice that during the 50’s‚ clothing could have the opproral of trousers and jeans for ladies and that elegance has been one very important thing since then. About the 80’s decade‚ we notice
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