Most people know that Christopher Columbus discovered America‚ but are probably unaware of all the destruction that he caused in doing so. Columbus had an urge to sail west to the Indies where he ended up finding North America and did not even realize it. In fact‚ he made four voyages‚ mainly to the Caribbean and part of the north coast of South America and was sure it had to be the Indies. He was looking for gold and spices that he had read about‚ but was in the wrong place. His exploration brought
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Breakfast in ancient Rome was light‚ and one of the smaller meals of the day. Also‚ there wasn’t that much food that the Romans ate at breakfast‚ “To start the day‚ breakfast or ientaculum‚ was also light‚ sometimes merely bread and salt but occasionally with fruit and cheese” (Cartwright). “The Romans ate a breakfast of bread or a wheat pancake eaten with dates and honey” (Barrow). “This would be eaten early‚ probably as soon as the sun rose and would include bread and fresh fruit” (History On The
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Traveling back in time‚ a group of cities or states ruled by a single individual or government‚ also known as an empire‚ thrived in ancient times. However‚ these empires eventually met their inevitable downfall. So what caused these empires to fall? Take the Roman Empire for example‚ one of the biggest empires to ever exist. Due to political corruption within the empire and overexpansion‚ the empire came to an end. Around the time when the Roman Republic ceased to exist and formed into the Roman
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They also did not have the supplies to support so many people being sick. The settlers started with 5‚000 people and by the end only had 500 (Gordon). The contractor Lincoln had hired to watch over the settlers started to become power hungry. He stole money from
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Abolitionist William Wilberforce was an honorable man. He was an abolitionist who got the slave trade to end in England. His Christian morals played a big part in his fight to abolish slavery; many of the lords were making a profit off of the slave trade and did not want it to end. Towards the end of his life‚ he retired from parliament and chose a younger politician‚ Thomas Fowell Buxton‚ to become the new face of abolition. William was raised a Methodist for part of his childhood‚ and eventually went back
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The Ottoman Empire joined World War I in search to save themselves and avoid risk of destruction‚ but the exact opposite happened to them causing their ultimate downfall. The Ottoman Empire began in the year 1299. The empire stood for about 600 years and was established by Turkish tribes in Anatolia‚ Turkey. The name “Ottoman” came from the founding Turkman chief‚ Osman the first. Osman founded the dynasty and the empire around the year 1300. Overtime‚ the Ottoman Empire would continue to progress
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Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argues that the West only dominated the world because they knew how to fight and were good at it. This is largely true and is evidenced by their influence on Eastern nations throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries all the way until 1945. The West forcefully colonized Africa following the abolition of the slave trade. Similarly‚ they imposed their will on China and caused social‚ political‚ and economic turmoil in their wake. Finally‚ in Japan‚ they
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of land to the international Jewish community‚ and at the same time essentially take away the homes of the Palestinians (Cleveland 222). The issue of the Jewish people returning to the Holy Land has been kept alive since the first century‚ however did not gain much traction until the 19th century. Across Eastern Europe in
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In the passages “Gladiator University” By Jennifer Marino Walters and the passage “ Did Gladiators Fight to the Death?” they show that over time that developments have changed the ways we understand how gladiators live. We had beliefs before about gladiators. As we discover new things our beliefs are changing. We had many beliefs before the discovery of the training school for gladiators. We had beliefs that gladiators always fought to their death‚ as stated in the text it says in paragraph 5 “
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What did Hitler do to make him one of biggest terrorists in the history of this Earth? We know the general story of Hitler‚ but do we know everything he did? Hitler became the worst terrorist of all time‚ because he rounded up several million Jews and killed them with poisonous gasses in Concentration Camps for 6 years and invaded various countries killing many other non-Jews too. Adolf Hitler started off running for president of Germany but ended up losing to Paul Von Hindenburg in
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