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The Hang He River gave birth to a Chinese civilization which was mostly isolated from the other parts of the world. This early Chinese civilization was located far from the Egyptian civilization that formed along the Nile River. Despite the distance, these two civilizations made almost identical advancements that shaped their daily life and cultures,…

Beccaria and the Age of Enlightenment During the 18th century, a movement of intellectual change swept throughout Europe and eventually the rest of the known world. People of modern thought believed that human reason could be used to combat ignorance, superstition, and tyranny and to build a better world. These enlightened thinkers combined logic with…

Dr. Rizal also predicted that the Americans would come, however he predicted that it would be unlikely since “this is contrary to her traditions. ” However, America did this through cunning and not through direct military conflict, and to hell with traditions! Americans had been hypocrites… And i hope they will no longer be. This…

Both the Pantheon and the Parthenon, regarded as highly influential and advanced designs in their respective periods, have been objects of study for thousands of years. Despite their distinct cultural backgrounds and time periods, these two structures share similarities as well as differences. The architectural designs of both buildings have been replicated and modified in…

            The interest in contextualizing the role of Jewish legacy in history has been a task of both Jews and non-Jews, and with the resurging anti-Semitic attitude throughout history, this task has taken a political dimension. In 1940, during the height of Jewish persecution in Europe, Cecil Roth published a book entitled “Jewish Contribution to…

I believe that we see some of the early seeds of the anti-slavery movement in the Pennsylvania Colony. William Penn founded this colony with the belief of religious freedom and liberal land policy. William Penn was a Quaker and they were “Protestants who believed that God’s will was directly transmitted to people through “the inner…

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the 28th June 1914 by Gavrilo Princip of the Serbain Secret society, the “Black Hand” had devastating consequences on the world. The causes of this event can be found in the determination of Serbian nationalism to create a Southern Slav state and the equal determination of Austria to…

            The thesis of Jack Weatherford’s “Cocaine and the Economic Deterioration of Bolivia”, is that cocaine, particularly the results of its demand and production costs, has contributed to the economic, moral, and cultural decline of Bolivia. Additionally, the cocaine trade has increased the number of health concerns for Bolivians. This decline is rampant and pervasive…

In much of the state in the late 19th century. societal tensenesss were defined in footings of rich versus hapless. native-born versus immigrant. and worker versus capitalist. In the provinces of the former Confederacy. despite all the calls for a New South in the old ages after Reconstruction. tensenesss continued to focus on upon the…

The Cherokee Indians were a small group of Native Americans in Georgia who changed their lifestyles to mirror ours in an attempt to fit in by making their society more civilized. Despite their attempts to fit in, the government felt poorly upon them and acted unjustly by evicting them from their land for what they…