development of the technology‚ many countries become more and more modern than the past‚ but there are still some debates on whether the western countries are more modern than eastern countries. However‚ most of the evidences show that West countries did the great fulfillment of modernity than East. Firstly‚ there was an industrial revolution in Europe in 18th centuries which means the some Western countries used advanced technology earlier than East. Secondly‚ the transportation in China was backward
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the beginning of the American colonies‚ the people started creating new ways of government. One of these ways was democracy. The colonies were democratic because they began allowing the citizens to have a say in government (Doc 3). If the people did not like how their government was run they could produce their own ideas and could question the leaders if they were wronged. Colonists were able to vote for people to represent them or their area in a legislature (Doc 6). Christians in the colonies
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How did communism come into Russia and how did it affect Russia? Russia was very stable before communist and communist ideas came round‚ and the aftermath of it all was not the best for Russia and Russian people. Russia was very different before communist took over‚ and how communism came to be is interesting along with all the changes that came with Russia. What was Russia and its government before communism? Russia was just a simple vast country stretching across the Eastern European plain
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How did Industrialisation Benefit Russia? What Is Industrialisation? Industrialisation is a process of social and economic change where a human society is transformed from pre-industrial to industrial. This social and economic change is closely entwined with technological improvement‚ particularly the development of large-scale energy production. What were Stalin’s industrial policies? GOSPLAN The GOSPLAN was an organisation that was set up to control what had to be achieved. GOSPLAN
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How did music begin? What did the first music sound like? Music is all around us and is a large part of many of our lives. It exists in every culture across the globe. Yet‚ we often don’t stop to think about how music came to occupy this position. Who first thought of music? Who produced the first melodies and songs? How did music develop as such an important aspect of our lives? The search for answers to these questions leads us thousands of years into the past. Harper playing before Shu Scholars
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Commerce in the other hand‚ did not rate highly in the Roman system of values; it was left in the hands of inferior social classes‚ foreigner and even slaves. Industrial and manufacturing activities were smaller. The largest such activities were the mining and quarrying of stones in which the majority of the workers were slaves‚ meaning that there was very slavery dependent‚ reaching 20% of the total population of the Roman Empire‚ affecting the price of free labor. Why did the Roman Empire collapse
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the new types of equipment. Germans misinterpreted on how things would be in the east. They dismissed Russia as a strong enemy and did not really think on how they would fight the Russians since they lost to japan in the Russo-Japanese war. The plan in 1914 ignored how Russia had modernized. Unfortunately‚ after the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated things did not go as planned. One of the german troop was just ready to give up as there were many adjustments to the plan. He said that not most
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Did Charles I Deserve to be Executed? In the middle ages the power of the monarchs was a lot greater than the power of today. For example the monarch would create the laws and taxes the country would obey by there rules and there rules only. The monarch would decide when the country went to war and when Parliament was needed (many problems were caused by the monarchs and Parliament disagreeing). However nowadays our monarchs tend to hand over there power to parliament. Parliament creates the laws
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why‚ but what did money have to do with it? The Romans could have used the money they had in a different way for them not to fall. To keep the army to defend Rome from attacks cost a lot of money. This was a constant drain to the government. Spending on the army left a little amount of resources for other things that they needed. Mostly like roads‚ and providing public housing(Rome). One thing that the empire did is they started to higher foreign soldiers‚ the foreign soldiers did not follow orders
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Germany was forced to demilitarize the Rhineland; France obtained a mandate over the Saar‚ and were also promised the support of America and other allies in the case of future French-Aggression. However‚ the latter was not ensured because the U.S. did not ratify the
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