European History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (3,272) essays
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"Toward a New Europe and the Twenty-first century" Study Notes
... States has exerted enormous influence on Europe and most especially Western Europe. After the war, the US government, through the Marshall Plan, rebuilt the Western European economies. The term Americanization, which has appeared in European publications, refers in part to this economic and military ...
Biography on Albert Einstein
... move to Munich, where Albert's sister was born; Maja. At the tender age of five Albert commenced the attendance of his first primary school. Although his parents were Jewish and had been raising Albert in the same traditions of Jewism he attended a Christian school ...
'The Victorian prison was a more 'civilized' method of punishment than hanging'
... of dealing with Victorian prisoners, such as rehabilitation schemes and re-education schools, however a prison sentence was still a more humane option than the alternative of being publicly hanged and up to 1793 burned afterwards. Although the regimes inside Victorian prisons ...
The Conquests of Alexander the Great
... of Corinth, a federation of Greek states which was created by Philip in 338 BC. However, Alexander acted promptly and conquered Thebes. Furthermore, Alexander enslaved the entire population of Thebes. After seeing the fate of Thebes, Athens quickly submitted. Alexander began his first ...
Napoleon - En enanstående fältherre
... allierade förlorade 27 000 man och 180 kanoner, bara 7 000 fransmän hade stupat. Källor: Napoleon Master of Europe av Alistair Horne, Krigskonstens historia av Montgomery, Arméens Världshistoria III
Empress Catherine the Great
... of introducing Russia to Western European culture. Russian court life flourished under the influence of Catherine's Enlightenment ideas, and St. Petersburg became a center of European culture. After her return to St. Petersburg, she turned to the affairs of the state ...
"Europe and the Soviet-American Rivalry" Study Notes
... Soviet Union , and the eight-year-old state of Israel, closely tied to the West. After 1956 a United Nations peacekeeping force separated the armies of Israel and Egypt with Israel withdrawing fro the Sinai. The resistance of westerners to what they increasingly perceived as Soviet ...
The History of the Greeks: Hellenic and Hellenistic
... moved to Cyprus along with the coasts of Thrace, the Sea of Marmara and the south coast of the Black Sea. Their western colonization included the coasts of Albania, Sicily, southeastern Italy, the south coast of France, Corsica and Spain. The two most distinct city-states of ...
An analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis' interesting book "The Return of Martin Guerre".
... of nobility. She decides that the idea of a non-noble village was an influence on the Guerre's moving from Hendaye to Artigat. Another of ...
Time-line of England
... public office1687: Sir Isaac Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion; James II issues Declaration of Liberty of Conscience, extends toleration to all religions1698: Thomas Savery invents a steam pump. 1701: Scotland and England become united ...