European History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (3,272) essays
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European History essays:
Understanding the Great Plaque of London 1665 through the diary of Samuel Pepys
... the context of the 1665 Plague but with other epidemics that have occurred all around the world. Two other significant 'plagues' are that of the Black Death and the present day virus, Aids. By comparison of the 1665 Plague the ...
Russia
... Russia. The governments around the world were affected by the Russian revolution in many ways such as comminism, capitalism, and the Cold War. All this led to the downfall of Russia and it's revolution. The Russian Revolution started in 1905. A major reason the revolution ...
Does global trade and empire explain British economic development over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
... the world. The empire and international trade provided not only some key raw materials to Britain but also provided the markets for these goods once produced. China was the world's dominant trading power from the 14th to 17th Century ...
Discuss the view that the period 1800-1850 was one of both progress and disillusion for Irish Catholics.
... 21st century perspective, we can see that this problem was the most serious. However, at the time, most people were more concerned with the irritation of paying tithes to the established Church of Ireland and more importantly to the cause of Catholic Emancipation. Most of the ...
Italian Civilization
... economic, and political conditions (source 1). Fascism is a form of counter-revolutionary politics that first arose in the early part of the twentieth-century in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution ...
Josephine's Early Life (Napoleon's first wife)
... the leading lights in Paris society." Suddenly her life was destroyed by the French Revolution. The French Revolution was started because average every day people were tired of unjust taxes and special privileges. Many nobles and aristocrats were executed during what was called the ...
The Historical Impact of the Black Plague. Extensive research. Unfortunately, I wrote this ages ago and the bibliography has been lost to the sands of time.
... the 1340's. Plague was perhaps the world's first biological weapon: diseased carcasses were catapulted into besieged cities to kill defending troops. Obviously, the plague was indiscriminate, and townspeople, invading soldiers and local militia were all stricken. So this tactic had the ...
"How far is it true to say that the Weimar Republic was doomed from it's foundation?"
... the First World War and was to encounter many years of hardship in which she would have to endure a wide range of conflicts. A democratic government seemed to be the ...
To what extent do you agree with Trotsky´s acessment of the 1905 Revolution?
... the mortgages which they had taken out to pay the high cost of their land, particularly as they had been hit by bad harvest and severe famines in during the last decade of the 19th century. It was against this backdrop that the ...
Why Did the Paris Commune Fail?
... The Versailles forces camped around the city were adequately supplied and relatively well organised. The Prussian army, which had allowed the French to pursue the campaign against Paris, were present and ready to resume hostilities if necessary. Though some support did exist within the rest of the ...