...Makiyah Mcgruder Mr. Stevens World history 9th grade 3/3/14 The Armenian Genocide Part 1 The Armenian genocide went on for nearly an Olympiad. More than 1.2 million Armenian people were killed in Turkey from the year 1914 to 1918. The Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Turkish government, to terminate the racial, religious minority. This was the first of many genocides of the 20th century. The men were shot and killed. Women and children were involuntarily evacuated from their homelands, and made to walk until they kicked the bucket from feebleness, disease, and starvation. Who/What Involvement in Event (may include their action or response to event) |Involvement in Event (may include their action or response to event| Leaders – Who was responsible (leaders or government) for the event taking place? |The government was responsible for the even taking place. | Casualties – Which group(s) was targeted in this event? |The Armenian people were targeted in this event. | Opposition Did anyone oppose or try to prevent this event (may be within the nation or another government opposing the event)? What did the opposition do to prevent/stop the event? |Not really, based on the information I was provided with the genocide ended because the Armenians beat the Turkish in the battle of Sardarabad ending the genocide. | Supporters – Who supported or helped to carry out the government orders? What did the supporters do to carry out the event...
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...Name Instructor Course Date World History Reasons why America and Japan became successful after 1860 The United States made many efforts to become successful in the earlier 1860’s; among them, they sought all means possible to control markets in order to multiply profits. Monopoly of markets control was achieved by the organization of trust. For example between 1868, when the first standard oil company was started in Pennsylvania, and 1900, Rockefeller’s oil company brought other companies under its control. Standard oil companies were in California, Iowa, Ohio, and New Jersey, but were brought together, and Standard Oil Company gained control of competing companies such as Acme oil, Atlantic refining among others. On the other hand, Japan became successful because of its revitalizing relationship with the United States. The combination of the Chinese ports to regular trade ensured that there was steady stream of maritime traffic between North America and Asia. The combination of its advantageous geographic position and rumors that Japan had deposits of coal increased the appeal of establishing commercial and diplomatic contacts with the Japanese. Reason for the decline of Chinese power after 1800 The imperial conquest of the British and Western countries led to a major fall of china’s power in 1800’s. This is because the imperial conquest was based on the militaristic nature of the imperial state, its non-reciprocal economic relations with overseas trading countries and the western...
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... | |Click here for the course glossary | | |Click here for a Timeline of The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution | | |This lesson discusses European society between 1600 and 1800--an era marked by the power of ideas and rational | | |thinking. The term Scientific Revolution is used to describe the growing acceptance and influence of the scientific| | |method and the belief that reason and inquiry can explain and even change the world. The term Enlightenment is | | |perhaps a more accurate name for this period because it incorporates a variety of intellectual movements that today| | |we do not consider sciences: philosophy, theology, economics, history, and political theory. | | |The word scientist did...
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...you write the History of the World? The history of the world is a very broad and extremely extensive topic to cover. There are literally endless amounts of information that one could write about for a world history coarse or textbook. Where one starts amidst the vast sea of our worlds history is a large part of where the coarse or text will go. For a coarse such as this one, based on modern world history with the emphasis on war and environmental and technical change we cannot start too far back on a timeline because otherwise we will never reach the modern history. As a starting point the middle ages works well because it gives us a slight background of the ancient worlds but is a very transitional time. Spending a short amount of time in the Middle Ages focusing mainly on the crusades and the kings of England and their reigns to get the reader or student interested. After discussing the middle ages, we would move on the exploration and colonization of the rest of the world. This is a major point and a larger amount of time should be placed here because first off there is much to cover with the Columbus discovery of north America followed by the sea route to India. Also because these are extremely important times because they are basically the start of the western world we know today. Around the same time period we have the war of the Roses followed by the Elizabethan age in Britain. Also, since it is world history and not simply western world history, there should...
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...“In what way has the study of world history affected my understanding of the world in which I live?” The study of world history has broadened my view on the world and its past in many ways. How humans interact with the environment and its animals, the importance of culture, and the importance of power and its effect have changed since I first began this class. A main piece of information I learned with the AP World History class is the importance of agriculture. Agriculture was the cause for change from hunter-gathers to a new age that caused indefinite change that changed the way of life. Farmers and their farms, plantations, and all that is related to that were something that I never placed as important. Nowadays intelligence is important and it was in the past but not in the Paleolithic era, it was agriculture. I never really knew how important the environment and its flora and fauna were in the past. All I ever knew, until I learn about the history, was...
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...Donald Lee Prof: Amy Wallhermfechtel World History since 1500 February 10, 2016 The Reformation and the Scientific Method World History It is difficult to have an accurate idea of how much you currently owe to Martin Luther and the movement that originated around their thinking. Historically we can say that somehow upset the religious, social, economic, cultural and political order of his time. But, Martin Luther did not agree with what the Catholic Church was doing. Martin Luther started his own way when he knew that the Catholic Church was ecclesiastical corruption and lack of religious piety. Then, Luther created the Reformation so the west divided in two that was the Catholic Church and the other were building their own churches. By this many people started making their own believing. The Protestant Reformation movement has generated many changes in the lives of people and western society. Martin Luther changed the world for failing to be a monk for the Catholic Church and start their own faith. He started a movement called the Reformation. Luther began to increase their movement more people and talking to them and told them everything bad that by the Catholic Church. Thanks to this, people began to believe in the Reformation was a Catholic idea, but none of this was under the Catholic Church this was by Martin Luther believing. The Scientific Revolution was a time associated primarily with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when new ideas and knowledge...
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...Section 1: Short Answer (20 points) In this section, you will write a two to threesentence response to each of the following items. Remember to use examples and be specific. In the area of politics, the Irish were upset by their merger with Great Britain into the United Kingdom. Identify and explain two areas of discontent. (4 points) Beginning in 1801, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland became a single entity. Many Irish were unhappy with this because they felt it diminished their identity as Irish, and because many viewed England as a historical enemy. The merger of northern Ireland into the British Empire replaced the Roman Catholic Church with the church of England as the state church. What is a monopoly? Explain the benefits to owning a monopoly.(4 points) A monopoly is when a person owns or dominates an industry. He will gain so much power that he either buy out competitors or run them out of business. After that he can be the only person that is able to provide his services. So when he is the only one standing, he can name the prices and the customers are forced to pay. Monopoly can make the owner multi millionaire. . What is urbanization? Identify two of the problems that were associated with rapid urbanization.(4 points) Urbanization is the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban in areas, be it horizontal or vertical, as opposed to being mostly rural and agricultural...
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...4-20 Tribonian: next 400 years from the republican age. Law also exists as a series of edicts. Emperor is constintutionally a magistrate, could do edicts – say what the law was. Permanent unless superceded by another emperor. 432, 438, Theodosian code. 2nd edition cleans up the bad editing. Most comprehensive code the romans had up to this point. It didn’t look at every single area of law. By justinians day it is almost 100 years old. Justinian got 500 scribes and jurists. Difference is large. Justinian was so pleased that he gave trebonian other tasks. Digest is twice as long as the code. A discussion of the principles of the law, the procedures, the remedies. Excerpting the particular topic – what they thought at the time. Quite a bit is philosophical. And a bit based on case law. Therefore it is unique. If you knew nothing about the roman law and you read it – you would know everything. 1000 year old system of written law. His most enduring contribution, Justinian. One of the three most important books beside the bible and quaran. Lenord the 3rd wrote the Ekolga. Justinian had reconquered the west. 1079 – one or two copies of the digest are found. Digest is not law in England, Germany. England were developing their own system, Germany wouldn’t develop until the 19th century. Every other latin speaking areas used it. Islam Decade seperates death of Justinian and birth of Mohammed. Justinian died in 565. Suceeded by several emperors in the next 45 years. Couple decent, one...
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...people of the time started to believe more in Humanist ideas and life on earth rather than just working to death, just to go to heaven. Or Individualism. People thought it right to be themselves - the great man can shape his own destiny. Humans are the center of the universe and the "measure of all things." Humans could do well at many things: "The Renaissance Man." Humans began to have a questioning attitude and challenged tradition and authority. They believed life on earth was more important than the afterlife. There was greater emphasis on this life and less on the afterlife and on God - the world is to be enjoyed. Humans are the center of the universe and the "measure of all things." b. In what ways did the witchcraft hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries foster the expansion of state power? Europeans’ fear was that witchcraft was a new and increasing threat to their world. Witch mania...
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...Dennis Nguyen Ms. Bell English 2P, Period 5 6 January 2016 Premature Revelation to Maturity The span of one’s guiltlessness is temporary, and the outcomes of losing grasp of it can greatly influence them. In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, he relives his experiences in which he’s compiled during the Holocaust that the German Nazis were held accountable for. On May 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, he at the age of fifteen, his family, and other Jews are forced by the Nazis to detach from their homes to attend their first concentration camp called Auschwitz. It was situated in Poland and his mother and youngest sister will die there while he and his father carry on their lives with the only priority of survival in their minds; little do they know, a dark future awaits them. It is in camp Buchenwald, located in Germany, to where Elie and his father transfer in the progressing years, that Nazi brutality becomes more conspicuous. This leaves him the last motive to remain alive, his father. As Elie continues to inhabit the surreal and agonizing environment with tortuous occurrences at every step, he finds it difficult to survive as an adolescent which leads to his quick transition into adulthood; thus leaving his state of innocence. Because of Elie’s loss of innocence, he is impacted by having his relationship with God suffer, being desensitized to deaths and atrocities, and reversing roles with his father. One way that Elie is impacted by his loss of...
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...Government = The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies. Governments can be classified in various ways, although the usual way is by how many people hold power: one, a few, or a majority. 2. Public Policy = A deliberate plan of action designed to guide government decisions. Individual and groups often attempt to shape public policy through education, advocacy, or mobilization of interest groups. 3. Legislative Power = The power to establish legislation and to frame public politics. Legislative power serves as a check on the power of various government ministries - especially in the presidential system of governing where the legislature is separate from the executive. 4. Executive Power = The power to execute, enforce, and administer law. Executive power in government is the President's power, given by the Constitution, to execute, enforce, and administer law. 5. Judicial Power = The power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes within the society. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. 6. Constitution = The body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, and processes of a government. The United States Constitution was adopted in its original form on September 17, 1787. 7. Dictatorship = A form of government...
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...time. * As a general, improved conditions for troops, gaining support and boosting morale. * Seized power, coup d’etat and the people of france accepted Napolean’s dictatorship. 4.) Lasting Effects of Napolean: * Scholar’s organized all French law into Napoleanic Code. * Established the Bank of France to act as a central financial institution. * Put into effect a system that included high schools, universities, and technical schools * Concordat: Recognized that most French citizens were Catholic, but it still allowed religious freedom. Most important, the church gave up claims to the property that the government had seized and sold during the Revolution. 9.) How World War I was fought, and the concept of total war. * Four Factors for World War I: Nationalism, Militarism, imperialism, system of alliances * Triple Alliance: Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary * Triple Entente: France, Russia, Great Britain * Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia * Germany declares war on Russia * Germany declares war on France * Germany invades Belgian territory * Britain declares war on Germany * Total War is a country utilizing all its resources towards the war. 10.) Why the Russian Revolution Succeeded * Two factions fought for power of the Soviets: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks * Bolsheviks had Vladimir Lenin, who trained workers to become a revolutionary force. * The Bolsheviks appealed to the war-weary...
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...Russia Around 500 AD, the slavic people lived near the Ukraine. Then, they began to move east into modern day Russia and south towards the Byzantine Empire Around 800 AD, the vikings began to attack (the slavs) 862 AD, the slavs asked a viking, Rurik ‘ the Rus’ to rule over them in Novgorod Because of viking raids, Europe militarizes itself but they’re still not united Russian Orthodox Christianity 863 AD, Cyrill and Methodius (brothers), were sent as missionaries by the Christian Church in the Byzantine Empire and they developed an alphabet based on the Greek, that was capable of representing Slavic sounds so they could translate the Bible (The Cyrillic Alphabet) East of Rome hits its highest point under the Emperor Justinian (r. 527 - 565 AD) Charlemagne's ‘Charles the Great’ Government Charlemagne was crowned on December 25, 800 AD by Pope Leo III as the new King of Rome (Holy Roman Emperor) His empire was divided into several hundred regions & each region was governed by a count Each count was responsible to organize an army & make laws Charlemagne would send out two-man-teams (Missi Dominici) to make sure counts weren’t plotting against him There were no taxes and public money was made by harvests from the Emperor’s large estates All peasants had to serve 3 months every year in the army The nobility provided calvary He started schools for the noble children and occasionally a bright, peasant child would be allowed to attend (Carolingian Renaissance) ...
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...J.M. Keynes: - In “The economic consequences of the peace”, he argued that the treaty ignores the economic solidarity of Europe and by aiming at the destruction of the economic life of Germany it threatens the health and prosperity of the Allies themselves. - He argues that the real problem of the settlement lay not in the issues of boundaries but rather in the questions of food, coal and commerce - His predictions were right when Germany was to face hyperinflation (a rise in price that became totally out of control) - War-guilt cause The German Problem: * Refers to the concern of other European powers regarding the huge potential that Germany had to dominate Europe. Given its geographical position and its economic and military potential, it was in a position to upset the balance of power and threaten other countries. Historian W.H.Dawson: Germany under the Treaty Germany’s border is bleeding Alternative view of the Treaty * Compared to the treaties that Germany had imposed on Russia and Romania earlier in 1918, the Treaty of Versailles was quite moderate. * Niall Ferguson: the treaty was relatively lenient * The treaty of Versailles was quite moderate and lenient * The treaty in fact left Germany in a relatively strong position in the center of Europe Germany power and expansion * The huge reparations bill was not responsible for the economic crisis that Germany faced in the early 1920s * Treaty of St. Germain * Austria was nicknamed...
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...Student Names: Instructor’s Name: Course: 23 May 2014 Giovanni DiPlano Carpini was among the first European persons to enter the Great Khan’s court in the empire of Mongol. He was a Serbian primate as well as the Archbishop of Antivari between 1247 and 1252. He was also a disciple of Saint Francis of Assisi and held great reputation within the Fransiscan order. It is after the Mongol invasion on Eastern Europe and Legnica battle that threatened the European Christendom, that Pope Innocent IV then decided that to send him to the Mongolian empire. The reason for sending an emissary was partly for purposes of protesting against attacks on Christian people and the European lands. To prevent further attacks, he wished to convert the emperor into Christianity (Lane, 139). However, according to Giovanni’s account, he was also highly interested in understanding the military powers and abilities of the Mongols. As a Christian, Giovanni was amazed by the level of social integrity, cohesiveness and respect among the Mongols despite them not being Christians like him. He says that the tartars seemed more obedient than other people to their leaders whether they were secular or religious. They always respected them and never lied to them (Lane, 139). Actually even among themselves, there never occurred differences by word or by actions, which are similar characteristics and virtues, taught by Christianity that Giovanni was sent to spread. Moreover, there were no vices such as stealing...
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