Philip was doing when Alexander was younger. After the death of his father, the Macedonian army supported Alexander the Great. When Alexander expanded Macedonia, he decided to go further and his acts were one of the most phenomenal expansions in history. He controlled the majority of Eastern Europe continents. After gaining this control, the economy of Macedonia and Eastern European continents flourished greatly. The trade route was astonishing and was strategically routed out by Alexander and his
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The Iraq War: An Avoidable Situation Introduction Iraq has generally never been a nation at peace, but that did not stop the United States from exacerbating those problems. Following the attacks of September 11 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003 the United States’ actions and counter terrorism strategy created an insurgency that set them up for a long and arduous war. Through what appeared to be a rushed planning process the United States entered Iraq and acted as if they wanted to worsen their
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The United States of America has a very proud history of battles fought and wars waged across the earth. It is a history filled with political power struggles, shows of military dominance, the necessity for action and reaction, and in the grand center of this thing we call war is the epitaph of mankind. As the years have gone by and the younger generations have been ushered into a world of racism, sexism, militarism; one thing has remained throughout the ages that does not change, and that is the
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Christopher Columbus: “Hero or Villain?” While many schoolbooks present Christopher Columbus as the famous Italian explorer who discovered America, history has painted a much more complicated picture. For a long time people are arguing was Christopher Columbus actually a hero or a villain? Was the man from Genoa a brave explorer or greedy invader? A gifted navigator or reckless adventurer? The man who laid the foundation for that most glittering daughter of the Western heritage: America is definitely
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War II are attributed to the ability of leaders to plan, adapt, and control resources. The proper application of these resources, both human and non-human, are what determined victories and defeats. There are many examples in history, particularly in World War II history, from which military leaders can draw a wealth of knowledge from, and apply those learned lessons in military operations today. One such example, the Battle of Anzio, raises awareness of deplorable decision making and poor leadership
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the group because they could perform the tasks of men and women. “A feminine male who preferred to do women's work (gathering wild plants or farming domestic plants) was logically expected to marry a masculine male, who did men's work (hunting and warfare). Because a family needed both plant foods and meat, a masculine female hunter, in turn, usually married a feminine female, to provide these complementary gender roles for economic survival. The gender-conforming spouse of two-spirit people did not
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The main reason that the French became an imperial power and colonized the Americas was because of Spain. On page 42 in the first two paragraphs of Exploring American Histories it states, “Spain decided to punish England… and sent a massive armada to spearhead the invasion of England… the two nations were rivals, and the defeat of the armada provided them as well as the Dutch and English with greater access to North American colonies.” This was something huge that would finally give the French a
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any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives Terrorism is not a strictly modern phenomenon committed by a few individuals or groups. Terror violence did, in many respects, become a method of warfare during the latter part of the twentieth century. In the twenty- first century, terrorism itself has become a target of war on the part of the international community, clearly increasing the level of violence and the
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that changed Wilson’s mind about stay out of war; the first was the sink of the Lusitania in May 1915 where nearly 1,200 people died, including 128 Americans. President Wilson sent three notes to Germany asking them to abandon unrestricted submarine warfare, but there was until they received the third note, almost an ultimatum, when Germany ordered to their U-boat commanders not to sink passenger liners without warning. President Wilson did not know that Germany had ordered U-boat commander not to
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were actually already used in warfare and conflicts. However, the key ingredients for terrorism were not quite solid yet. Until the rise of the modern nation state subsequently the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the type of central authority and a united society that terrorism tries to influence scarcely existed. Communications were controlled, and the facts that might cause terrorism, such as religion, insurrection, political disagreements, typically led to an open warfare during earlier times of civilization
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