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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farming started to change and it caused the small landowners to become bigger land owners. This caused the larger land owners to have to pay the peasants even more just so they can stay on due to low unemployment change. With the fall in population some landowners also had to sell their land due to the fact that they could not get the rental income that they needed to provide during this time period. This caused the redistribution of land ownership to influence the supply on the social and political
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ascend into her own madness. There are only a few signs before hinting towards Ophelia being insane‚ but he the days following the death she takes the plunge down the rabbit hole. This lead up to when Ophelia finally died and ended her own life. There are two theories as to why Ophelia went insane. One being being she did truly love Hamlet and not being able to be with him affected her. The second theory was that Hamlet killing her father‚ Polonius‚ increase her depression and lead it to kill her
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there is the idea of the temporary triangle; this is a cartoon made around the time shows in a peculiar fashion the idea that Hitler only became Chancellor because of the help of Von Papen and Hindenburg. After Von Papen had been replaced as Chancellor he thought that he could use and control Hitler and the Nazi’s because of their popularity in Germany. Of course Von Papen seriously underestimated Hitler and had no control at all; however his actions did benefit Hitler as he managed to persuade Hindenburg
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overproduced goods which caused the overall value of their products to fall. The New Deal is thought to have fixed this by creating agencies to help people find jobs‚ feed the poor‚ build new businesses‚ and assist in raising product value. That isn’t the truth‚ though‚ because there is a
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The Roman Empire left a lasting impression on future civilizations due to its powerful military and political structure. Despite its early success‚ however‚ the empire fell into economic decline. But if the civilization was so powerful‚ why did it crumble by 476 AD? Many factors contributed to the empire’s demise‚ but historians routinely cite slavery and the spread of Christianity as the main factors. Some historians argue that the empire’s overreliance on slave labor collapsed the civilization;
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depend on. This plan plan was formed in 1905‚ so the plan lacked in industrial issues. For example‚ machine guns and other modern weapons that could create a big hole in the plan. Ideally the plan was to have the German forces outnumber the French and win their battle. Then have them use the train tracks to quickly move over to the eastern front and fight Russia. The original plan was to have most of the German troops march through Belgium and the Netherlands to Northern France. They knew this would cause
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Why Did the Civil War Begin? On 22 August 1642‚ King Charles I raised his battle standard and declared a civil war against his enemies in Parliament. A civil war is a conflict fought between inhabitants of the same country. In this case the two sides that fought against each other in England were the King ’s side known as the Royalists and Parliament ’s side known as the Parliamentarians. The main reasons for going to war were part of three or possibly four topics; they were Money‚ Religion‚
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Vienna had given Austria direct control over Lombardy and Venetia‚ and had also put an Austrian family in charge of ruling smaller duchies such as Parma and Modena. As such‚ Austria had dominating control over a lot of Italy. However‚ this was not the only reason why Italian revolutionaries failed. Other factors included the fact that there was no foreign support against Austria and other foreign rulers in Italy and the fact that there was a lack of cooperation between the various revolutionaries
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There are a lot of biases when it comes down to who’s fault it was and what really sealed the deal and ultimately caused the collapse of the Soviet Union. At the same time when it is asked ‘Why did the soviet union collapse?’ the answer is always ‘there were many factors’. Well what does that mean? That is not very specific at all. Some say it had to do with the numbers of different cultures combined into one union and others may argue that the economy was too stagnant and that no one could have
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