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The Weimar Republic was created in 1918 when the Germans realised that they were going to lose the war. The Germans were shocked that they had lost the war and created this democratic republic to try and solve the economic and social problems caused by the war. However it was not very successful, and I…

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…

In ancient Egypt, cats held a position of high respect due to their elegance and grace. They were even associated with the goddess Bast (Bastet). The loss of a cat was mourned as if it were the passing of a loved one, and causing unintentional harm to a cat was considered a serious offense. Cats…

The Role of women, sexuality, and Independence in the 17th and 18th century There are two short stories that relates to the women in the 17th and 18th century. There is “The story of an hour”, and “Astronomer’s wife” and the two short stories related by the women being in a disconsolate marriage. Both Kate…

            The Knights Templar is considered as one of the famous type of medieval army that existed in the western part of the world. Being zealous to the Roman Catholicism and to the Papacy, the Knights Templar was seen to be much disciplined in the field of combat and warfare. Many Catholic devout also joined…

The fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff, which was discovered in december 2008, is based upon a ponzi scheme. Madoff took money from new investors to pay earnings for existing customers. The greater the payout to reting and withdrawing customers, the more revenue or clients he would need to start an “investment relationship” with. The ponzi…

After defeat from World War One, Hitler’s last assignment for the army was to spy on a political part called the “German Workers Party”. The reason being as they were an uprising Marxist party. So Hitler’s job was to, exterminate this as communism was the problem, which lead to the starting of world war one….

The analysis of Operation Blue Star and its impact on the Gandhi dynasty is seen as a dark period in India’s history. It is considered a stain that is hard to forget. Even now, there are discussions about whether Indihar Gandhi was right in executing Operation Blue Star, which caused significant harm to the Golden…

In 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa. He was elected by the country’s National Assembly, which was chosen in the inaugural elections that granted voting rights to the black population. With a majority of seats held by blacks, Mandela’s presidency represented a new era for South Africa. These significant events…

The Roman History is a huge and famed work concerning the development of the Roman empire from the early republic to his own day in the post Antoine world. It is history’s main source of information on many central issues in Roman politics and intellectual history. It is divided, according to Dio, into the familiar…