... ethnicity that lead to European superiority. Diamond makes many, many comparisons in Guns, Germs, And Steel, he compares across culture and across time, which Robert Bain, author ofBuilding an Essential World History Tool,? says is essential in comparing history. Bain writes that by comparing history across culture, time and region, that historians can locate the distinctive, the common, and the hidden elements of a situation ... on trivial facts that may have been overlooked had such a comparison never been made. Reinhard Bendix, author ofThe Comparative Analysis of Historical Change,?...

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... was not without its flaws because it did show bias and was skewed to the side of the Allied Powers. In his opening argument, head prosecutor for the United States, Robert Jackson said, "The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a great responsibility. The four great nations flushed with victory and ... prosecution would destroy their argument. As in any trial or tribunal, the prosecution must persuade the jury (be it peers or a bank of judges) that the defendants are indeed guilty. Robert Jackson, a Supreme Court Justice, headi...

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... nonviolent, aside from the war. In 1774, King Louis XVI made a decision that could have prevented the French Revolution by breathing new life into the French economy: he appointed Physiocrat Robert Turgot as Controller General of Finance. The Physiocrats were a small band of followers of the French physician Francois Quesnay, whose economic prescriptions included reduced taxes, less regulation, the elimination of ... to cut our throats." Turgot's successors, following a mercantilist policy of government intervention, only made the French economy worse. In a desperate move to find money ...

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... converted to steam power as well. Shortly after the steam engine was developed, George Stephenson invented a steam locomotive called the Rocket, and the first steam-powered ship was invented by Robert Fulton. These inventions, and the fact that machines were not taxed as much as people, caused large social upheavals. As small mills and cottage industries that depended on the stream ... or a group of people putting energy into product could complete with the energy derived from steam. With locomotives and steamships, goods could now be transferred very quickly across a country or ocean, ...

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... control on their colonies. This had gave a rise to domestic revolutionaries and nationalists in those colonized countries to seek a way out for their countries. As a result, a mass of independence swept across the continents of Asia and Africa. New leaders were springing up from all corners of the world one after another, fights and revolutions were going on in every continent. However ... parallel over the sphere, in Third World countries cases, different revolutionary perspectives struggled against each other and formed their own fronts to fight themselves through the end. Like said b...

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... quality of craftsmanship; and yet, because they worked almost just as well and were so much less expensive, they easily outsold their guild-controlled counterparts. This fact led modern historian Robert Duplessis to assert, "The once-mighty guilds could present little opposition to entrepreneurial efforts even in towns" (110). Most were not the slightest bit sorry to see the monopolistic and ... reaffirmed this decree six more times over the next 100 years. Yet, capitalists in medieval China didn't give up; those merchants with enough money to bribe officials continued to trade across t...

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