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foot Dolomite outcropping known as the Athenian Acropolis (Greek meaning high city). During the 5th century B.C. an extensive building program, initiated by the statesman Pericles, created several public building on the rocks crowning the plateau. These
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to stick with this single method of tool making for thousands of years. Stone was plentiful, relatively easy to work with, and seemed to satisfy his needs.
Finally, around 3500 B.C. man ventured into the Age of Metal. The first metal which he learned
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was truly a time of rebirth, which is a new or second birth or a revival, (Merriam-Webster's Vest Pocket Dictionary, 1989 edition) in many aspects, such as religion, arts and architecture, and science. This time period was truly important, for it would
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of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the American Declaration of Independence, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and the U.S. Bill of Rights helped shaped other countries views.
The Magna Carta greatly influenced
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Revolution of 1917, which in turn caused Russia to experience major political and social changes. The common people of Russia, prior to the revolution, were extremely poor (Harvey 4). The government was said to be unfair by the majority of people
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of Nations main aim was in: "stopping wars, improving people's lives and jobs, in encouraging disarmament and in enforcing the decisions made in the peace Treaty of Versailles." If we consider the above statement to judge the successes of the
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twentieth century, the dropping of the atomic bomb onto the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been well documented, along with the decision process and the effort to create such a weapon; the Manhattan Project. What makes the use of the
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How did Germany emerge from defeat at the end of the First World War?
Germany lost the First World War. People felt let down, and the army and navy were tired of fighting. There was a shortage of food, and in addition, the Kaiser soon abdicated, and
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predicted that in the near future there will be two possible political figures, where neither will be democratic, the McWorld and Jihad. The first, Jihad, is a retribalization of large swaths of mankind by bloodshed and war. The second, Mcworld, will
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worlds social systems so strongly that it deserves to be considered one of the top three important "turning points" in all of world history. Enlightenment brought positive influences to society in the late 1700's.
Enlightenment has affected the social
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