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Chilvary in the Middle Ages
... King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and images of heavily armored knights rescuing damsels in distress. However, what most people often seem to overlook is that chivalry was a code of conduct specifically designed to accommodate the harsh lifestyle and hierarchical order of ...
Should Alexander be given the title "The Great"?
... the people. The Persians didn't accept him as their new leader and his attempt to change that was not very successful. Alexander captured rebels instead of accommodating was the rebels wanted. He executed governors who had abused authority in his absence. He was definitely not too kind of ...
How the Salem Witch Trials relate to the changes occuring during the late 17th century in colonial British America.
... advances. Disease was still strong, and Cotton Mather and Zabdiel Boylston are credited for the first inoculation of any kind. The Enlightenment inspired new technology. Scientific advancement was by far the most interesting. Sir Isaac Newton is acknowledged with his theory of gravity and ...
Answers to some questions about world war II
... the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it e) The conquest of the Sovier Union. Hitler's motives were to gain living space for Germans and to win control of regions rich in resources. He unleashed a new blitzkrieg - the Russians lost two and ...
Women after 1850
... the greatest power in Europe; her breakthrough in steam power in 1790 and the subsequent mechanized production of goods made England the envy of the world. While Europe and the rest of the world were still relying on an agrarian economy, Victorian England was experiencing a whole new ...
Motivation and Results of Imperialism
... the arrival of the European s. In Rwanda this led to the biggest genocide the world has seen since World War II. Overall, European imperialism left all the formerly controlled countries in corruption and extreme poverty. In the Belgian Congo, millions of innocent people were massacred by the ...
Edith Stein: A Saint or A Remarkable Woman
... the sins as well as the merits of her children. The Church approaches with deep respect and great compassion the experiences of extermination, the Shoah suffered by the Jewish people during World War II ... We wish to turn awareness of past sins into a firm resolve to build a new future in ...
Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and Air Warefare.
... the fabulous work of Sun Tzu, the first strategist known in history with written military strategies in the shape of "The Art of War", and see its applicability in the modern day Air warfare. 2. The aim of this paper is to highlight salient features of Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' and validate his ...
Collectivisation and Industrialisation in Stalinist Russia
... The Shakthy Trials of 1929 also create a new suspicion of capitalist forces as living standards diminished by 1941 due to collectivisation and industrialisation occurring at the expense of the proletariats and the ...
Munich Massacre
... the editor of the Israeli magazine, New Outlook, and is a crusader for Israeli recognition of the PLO and creation of a Palestinian state. Who else at IPS might qualify as a "Zionist"? Perhaps Paul Jacobs? Perhaps Arthur Waskow? Jacobs was an IPS Fellow, and a lifelong radical who had wended his ...