... time of recovery after the late medieval contraction' (Clark 128). During the sixteenth-century processes of change there was a notable demographic increase, exacerbated by rural in-migration, and the expansion of trade networks which affected western Europe 's urban social groups in two main ways: they rendered the economic situation and social status of certain master craftsmen and journeymen less secure ... -sur-Marne, which was a predominantly Catholic town with a Protestant minority, the councillors would "have been willing to work out a policy of peaceful coexistence between the tw...

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... into the unknown and it appears as though neither he nor the monarchy expected him to reach the Indies. After his departure, however, it becomes apparent that Columbus's goal was a westward route to the east. This he expresses in his diary; his continual references to Asia cannot leave us in any doubt of what he was expecting to find and what ... of view of the Spanish monarchy a successful expedition meant the possible acquirement of new lands and of wealth as well as a chance to pass the Portuguese in the exploration and expansion into the Atlantic Ocean. The capitulations of February...

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... another campaign back and claimed the Spanish border cities as his own in 795. He defended the Papal States from the Moors on more than one occasion. He halted the westward expansion of the Slavs in 789 and spent the rest of his military campaigns in the destruction of the Avars from 790-805. Charlemagne had a strange way of organizing military campaigns ... ...

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... and investment flows will grow, spurring rapid increases in world GDP. Opposition to further trade liberalization from special interest groups and some governments will not erode the basic trend toward expansion of trade." In this Post-modern era, the focus of the globe has made a dynamic shift from individual states focusing on increasing land and territorial boundaries, to emphasizing the increasing ... : Country GDP (as of 1/1/00) Military Spending as of (1/1/00) Austria $190.6 billion $1.7 billion Belgium 243.4 billion 2.8 billion Denmark 127.7 billion 2.822 billion Finland 108.6 bil...

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... in the traditional past. Therefore, though colonial rule brought modernization to Southeast Asia, it would be too extreme to consider it as a true achievement. We have to observe that colonial expansion had modernized Southeast Asia in several ways, leading to the creation of the modern Southeast Asian state. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a foundation of European-style ... development and also allowed the Europeans to effectively manage the exploitation process, in which personal ties and followings which were main features of the old traditional Southeast Asia. Similar...

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... in the traditional past. Therefore, though colonial rule brought modernization to Southeast Asia, it would be too extreme to consider it as a true achievement. We have to observe that colonial expansion had modernized Southeast Asia in several ways, leading to the creation of the modern Southeast Asian state. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a foundation of European-style ... development and also allowed the Europeans to effectively manage the exploitation process, in which personal ties and followings which were main features of the old traditional Southeast Asia. Similar...

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... expand to the world around them. Western Catholicism promoted practices that were limiting and disallowed experimentation with intellect and other cultural theologies, and thus there was noticeably less expansion or progress as a thriving, unified empire. In contrast, Islam's tolerance, innovation, and sense of unity enjoyed by its followers made the religion appealing to people all ... around the world. The rapid expansion of Islamic civilization was a product of the flexible relationship between religion and intellect in a society. The capability of balancing the duality of intellectu...

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... , which enabled them to explore unknown territory and expand their influence overseas. European imperialism began in the 14th and 15th centuries. There were a variety of factors that allowed for expansion. First of all, because the population of Europe was low there was a potential for rapid population growth. Secondly, Europe was relatively small which made it venerable to invasion and ... and take direct control over a majority of the continent. Advances like the breech loaded rifle and the machine gun helped in making imperialism possible as well. These new improvements made expansion ...

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... 1913 increased the army's peacetime strength 515,000 to 544,000 and more artillery and machine-gun units were raised. The news of Germany's military expansion spread quickly and as a result in August 1913 the French Assembly extended compulsory military service from two years to three increasing their men from 545 ... this was necessary. In reaction to this challenge to their naval supremacy, from 1903 to 1910, the British Royal Navy embarked on its own massive expansion to keep ahead of the Germans. This competition came to focus on the revolutionary new ships based on HMS Dreadnought, w...

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... the fleas on the Black rats that were were native to Asia. As a result, the plague which was solely based on the trade routes, carved a path of death through Asia westward to Europe. Some of the Europeans had become aware of a mysterious illness that was effecting the orient but the were not worried about it reaching them. Further the Mongol empire ... ...

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... China in 1331- (Corzine 28). Coupled with other natural disasters, the plague killed two-thirds of the population of China between 1331 and 1353. By 1346, the plague had reached westward to Caucasus and Azerbaijan along the coast of the Black Sea (Corzine 29). The plague then quickly infected Holland, the British Isles, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Scandinavia. The plague reached ... ...

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... by coughing and sneezing. The first catastrophic epidemic of the plague during the late Middle Ages has become known as the Black Death. It apparently originated in Asia and moved westward along the trade routes, entering Europe in 1347 during a period of inadequate harvests, when the poor had little natural resistance to combat the disease. In three years, the Black Death ... ...

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... able to spare the resources and manpower to build megaliths like Newgrange, containing 100,000 tons of stones, some brought from up to 100 km (60 mi) away. It was westward to this agricultural society "but also south-eastwards through Iran to India "that several millennia later successive waves of a people, whom we call Indo-Europeans, migrated from the ... ...

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... boom in railroads and construction industries. Strong steel machinery allowed a wider application of steam power in these industries, as well as others, including mining. Shipping parelled the epic expansion of railroads, bring distant parts of the world together. The whole world was open to cheap, plentiful goods, products that often would swamp ocal crafts; simultaneously, Europe became ... many aspects of the industrial process, fostering changes in production, organization and consumption. Steam, oil and gas, and electricity would power the twentieth century. Communications pushed in...

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... home government. This is important in providing the home government with information and advice for the formulation of policies towards that host country. This has become increasingly complicated with the expansion of the scope of foreign policy making and globalization. Now, the need is to gather a variety of information, including from economic and cultural sources and rather than just political ... seen as impotent or was colonized. With the end of European world dominance after WWII, the rise of new powers such as the US, China and Japan and the expansion of geographical scope in in...

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... time, United States emerged as the richest nation in the whole world. This status dove the foreign goals of the country to the 1920s. During this period, there was an expansion of American markets in addition, investing capital in Europe. There were sales of American facilities to the foreign markets e.g. sale of oil, autos, and farm machinery among others. Secondly, the ... ; also, Berlin also divided among the allies (Hatton and Williamson, 2005). It also resulted in drawing of "iron curtain," which divided Europe into Western and Eastern spheres, this ensured the expansion of USSR by ...

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... was explicitly concerned about Germany: "The intention is to make use of Western Germany and German heavy industry (the Ruhr)as one of the most important economic bases for American expansion in Europe." The Russians also knew of the utmost importance of the German economy and the power that is connected to it. They wanted to prevent an American domination, which ... would have meant to lose the chance on the further expansion of the Soviet Union westwards.15 The Oxford Dictionary defines the Cold War as "the state of hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the West...

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... on its membership two years later in 1975 and the British public votes to stay in the EEC. Norway had also been gearing up to join in this round of expansion, but in its referendum in 1972 Norwegians decided against membership and negotiations to join were stopped. 1979: THE ROAD TO THE EURO BEGÃ"NS The European Monetary System (EMS) is ... OF A TWO-SPEED EUROPE The heads of government meet in Amsterdam and draft a new agreement which updates the Maastricht Treaty and starts to get the EU ready for its eastward expansion. Laws on employment and discrimination are strengthened and the s...

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... the globe and they used their mastery to make the world one. That resulted in a unity of world history that can be detected until today. Politics, empire building, and military expansion were only a tiny part of what was going on. Besides the economic integration of the globe there was a much more important process underway: The spreading of assumptions and ideas. The ... progress throughout Europe. By 1800, Europeans had made a large contribution to the peopling of new lands overseas. It was already discernible in the sixteenth century when there began the long expansion of world comme...

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... themes across region and time are important, and become more obvious with the use of quantitative information, such as charts and maps. Diamond provides quantitative charts on food production, language expansion, types of societies, dates of animal domestication, distribution of seeds, types of crops, domestication in specific geographic areas, you name it, he's got a chart. He also provides maps for just ... about everything he discusses, from early human migration, to maps of specific regions, to maps of expansion and diffusion of language, to maps of the diffusion of food production....

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... population as a means of protecting our nation though, they were happy for either the US or Britain to do that. Instead, they focused on increasing the labour force for the expansion of our manufacturing sector. The "White Australia" policy soon became an increasing embarrassment as relations between the world and Asia developed. With the Governments emphasis on the ... expansion of our manufacturing sector, Australia didn't want to tarnish any possible trade relations. Hence modifications were made to the "White Australia Policy". Originally, these modifications were not intended to al...

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... through the following measures: - increase in production, especially in agriculture and the energy industry; - improvement in the transport system; - modernization of industrial equipment; - creation of sound currencies and national budgets; - expansion of trade and increase in exports, especially to the dollar area and elimination of Europe's balance-of-payments deficit with the dollar area; - encouragement of economic cooperation among the European ... while ensuring internal financial stability." (Hemmling, H D). As reconstruction progressed and American aid retreated slowly into awa...

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... rate of growth achieved during the transition in Great Britain was just below 1.0%, while a peak of 2.5% was reached in the developing countries. "In about a century, developing countries have matched the expansion of the developed countries in the two centuries following the industrial revolution." (Livi-Bacci, 146/1992) As further illustration of the rapid ... expansion of the undeveloped countries, Libya and Togo, who are roughly in the second stage of the transition, will double their population every 19 years, Gaza, every 15. (Pop. Reference Bureau, ... ...

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... residents, and military powers were able to protect them. Peasants and serfs were moving into established cities and also were founding new towns. Revival of urban society resulted in dramatic expansion of manufacturing and trade both within Europe and with Byzantine and Muslim partners in the eastern Mediterranean, and later a commerce grew up in the northern seas, and a number of crusades ... were disharmonious to Islam, effectively triggering the start of decline Arabic civilization. At the same time when Arabic civilization entered downward spiral, its European counterpart was alrea...

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... -holders, a system later called manorialism, peasants were restricted to monotonic hard labor every day, with no hope of escape (Hartman 87). The peasants were hardworking, and they allowed for great expansion of the villages and manors that emerged over centuries of toil and strife (Gies 129). The barbarian invasions had put an end to the great trading advances made in Rome ... than science (Lyon; Corbishley 48). People generally lived in fear of disease and chaos- plague, death, and plundering were very common, and did not precipitate a climate for creative and economic expansion (Rowl...

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