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Beginnings of British Colonization of America

However, the settlers gained the influence to grab the territories from the natives and took over the entire leadership, collecting taxes and decreeing at their dispensation.
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Conflicts in the World

The authors address the viewpoint that Islam is one of the major causes of conflicts which took place in the world lately.
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Cold War Politics, Culture and Wars

The Western democracies led by the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a discussion regarding the development of the war and the nature of the post-war settlement.
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Social Consequences of Industrial Revolution

There were significant changes in the lives of most Europeans during the era of the industrial revolution. This is attributed to the introduction of machinery in the manufacturing industry.
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Documented Journalism: Black Death

Therefore, in spite of the controversy surrounding the cause of Black Death, modern genetic studies have confirmed that Y.pestis is the bacterium that was responsible for the Black Death in Europe.
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The History of the 9/11 Decade

The U.S.economy, the military needs and strategies of the country, the oil crisis and the U.S.relations with other countries, China and the countries of the Middle East in particular, are the main themes which need [...]
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Technological Catastrophe: Titanic in 1912

The events leading to the sinking of the ship and the finding of its wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean led to in-depth analysis of technology with a clear line between advantages and disadvantages of technological [...]
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Mad and Depressed Women in America

The role of male and female patients was absolutely the same in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in America unlike the role of women in medicine where they were only given the functions of midwives."Aside [...]
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British Dominion in India

The Presence of the British in India can be traced back to the early Seventeenth Century. But looking at this conflict of the moment it can be easily concluded that the British must have dangled [...]
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British Policy and the Indian Mutiny

Although, the industry was not highly mechanized, the value attached to the products was significant due to the level of skill that was employed to produce them.
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How New Imperialism Was Shaped

In 1994, Rwandan population was made up of three ethnic group namely the Hutus who were the majority, the Tutsi who were relatively few and the Twa who were insignificant due to their number, the [...]
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Ottoman Empire: The Tanzimat Period

As the Ottoman Empire was getting more and more dominated by western nations, Europe used the chance to market itself in the territory as a way of assisting them.
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Political Organizations Through the History

This essay looks compares some of the political organizations in the history of man's existence in the world. These two are the centralized political units and the decentralized political units.
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Modernization Poised Between History and Prophecy

Secondly, the stage of 'preconditions of take-off' is characterised by the spread of the idea of the possibility of economic prosperity which is a necessity for other desired societal conditions. The last stage of economic [...]
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Australian Law and Native Title

In particular, the Native Title became a custom will and at the same time, traditional law in order to bring equality and justice before the law.
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How Did the Gold Rushes Change Colonial Australia?

In the history of nations that throve on the territories of North America and Australia, the nineteenth century is marked by a series of gold rushes that forever changed the ways of development in economical [...]
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Imperialism and Modernization

The skills learnt in farming were of great help to the colonies since they applied them in their farms after independence and this accelerated their modernization process.
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Australian Aborigines Genocide

The rules and policies produced by the international laws state that as long as there is intent to systematically get rid of a group of people and there is the act itself, it is genocide.
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First Draft of Policeman of the World Paper

After the participation of the United States in the war, especially the support of Western Europe, the United States government embarked on a course that now determines the position of the United States in the [...]
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The Perils of Imperialism: Through the Lens of History

To start with, it is essential to keep in mind that the imperialist tendencies especially in the Western globalized environment, affects a state on not only political, but also economical and socio-cultural levels, therefore, changing [...]
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Concept of Imperial Powers in History

Some of the examples of walls created by Imperial states are the great walls of Hadrian in the Roman Empire, the west bank barrier between Israel and Palestine, and the Berlin walls separating west and [...]
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Colonization: Why Africa Suffers

Therefore, this paper examines the state of pre-colonial African societies, factors that led to European colonization of Africa, British colonial rule in Africa, and the impact of British colonialism on the postcolonial African states.
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Colonialism in North America

The reaction to colonization in North America was, therefore, through rebellions and protests against oppression and illegal acquisition of ancestral land.
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Origins of the Cold War

The Cold War was the repercussion of World War II following the emergence of two key supremacy blocs in Europe one of which was subjugated by ideologies of the democracy of the capitalist America.
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Chapter Review: The Epic First Voyage

While describing the details of the journey, the chapter points out the way the Portuguese fleet under the auspices of Vasco da Gama confronted different cultures, religions, and societies in the pursuit of new scientific [...]
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NATO: From Creation to Current Status

A significant outcome of the World War II was the emergence of the United States of America and the Soviet Union as the two world super powers.
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The 1972 Munich Olympics

The British left in the year 1948 and the autonomy of the new state of Israel was declared by the Jews in Palestine.
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Global Evolution in “Midaq Alley” by Mahfouz Naguib

First, since 1914, the world was featured by global integration and its changing patterns that led to: immense colonies and powers, the three worlds of Cold War eras, and the current interdependent and networked of [...]
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Age of Enlightenment: The Rebirth of Europe

As already aforementioned, prior to the "Age of Enlightement," the church and state respectively were the institutions that controlled people and the state of affairs, in general.
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History of Law

The uprising that has been witnessed in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and now Syria is a reaction to leaders who have used the rule of law for their own personal gain and at the expense of [...]
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How Capitalism Beat Communism/Socialism

This is exactly the reason why USSR was doomed to collapse in just about every society, the functioning of which is being concerned with the observance of Socialist principles, the prolonged continuation of social, cultural [...]
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Technological Change in the Industrial Revolution

Just to sample the impact technological changes had on the general demographical patterns of England and Wales, a technological invention to improve the smelting of Coke saw the shift in population growth from the South [...]
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History of NATO in 20th and 21th Centuries

The signing of the Treaty of Brussels in March 1948 by five European countries which included the UK, Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxembourg marked the beginning for the formation of NATO.
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David Birmingham’s “The Decolonization of Africa”

In his book "The Decolonization of Africa" Birmingham, argues that the process of decolonization of Africa had ripple effects in other parts of the world, such as the civil rights movement in America, and the [...]
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Historical Causes and Effects

Due to the inflexibility of the Latin language, there was a decline in the literacy forcing the clergy to act as the main teaching authority.
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