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… and Sparta were two diverse civilizations in Ancient Greece which both left an imprint in the history of western civilization. Athens and Sparta had major differences yet created long lasting, powerful civilizations. Both located in the Mediterranean…

… in our great country. As a result, we have become the greatest and most wealthy industrial nation in the world. It is a time of drastic changes and transformation from hand tools, and hand made items to machine manufactured and mass-produced goods.…

… He figured out how to understand how each separate machine part worked, he could change them and put them together in different ways to make existing machines better or invent machines no one had ever seen before. Leonardo was the first one…

… half the population of England worked on the land or in a trade, such as milling, that was connected with agriculture. Most of the Land was owned by rich aristocrats of gentry who rented it out to tenant farmers. These famers paid labourers to work…

… a people can be what one considers an enlightened despot, or a ruler that makes good laws and promotes human happiness with them. It has been said about the great conqueror and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte that he is the last of the enlightened despots,…

… the "Dark Ages", for numerous reasons. One of which would be because of the black plague that swept through Europe killing thousands of people and causing great suffering for many people, leaving families devistated. Another would be because of the…

… There was much political unrest, with the government in a weakened state. In the South there were peasant uprisings, and in the North there were numerous strikes by the workers. These culminated into times such as 'Red Week' in 1914, when a mass series…

… Europe and the Americas a completely new way of looking at the world around them, which caused people to change their views about the universe. They entered the Enlightment, in which philosophers applied reason to society and government, developed…

… a real person, and contrary to popular belief, there might actually have been a purpose to his life. You see, Chuck wasn't just an ordinary guy, sure he loved to go sail boating and wind surfing like everyone else, but he got paid for it, thus setting…

… is because it helps us to determine whether Hitler's economic policies were made in the true interest of the welfare of the nation, or were made to protect his position as fuhrer and prepare Nazi Germany for war which he deemed was inevitable. In…