... not looking for protection as we do but are willing to risk us for their gain" (Roberto Galisti, 1914,p233) Most historians agree that nationalism (caused by the many revolutions) was one of the prominent causes of World War One. France and England were struggling to be seen as the dominant and most powerful country in Europe while Germany was quick to seek their place at ... have declared war. With no one to unite them in fear the French and the English never would have allianced and still may be squabbling today. If Britain hadn't had someone to compete over the seas with there would ...

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... sent over seas to find new land to expand upon since other countries in Europe began doing the same. The conquest was justified in religion, expansion, and wealth, along with many other reasons. The Spaniards and other Europeans traveling to the new world first sought to spread the word of God. Some, upon arrival to the new world, found most of the inhabitants to be pagan. Some of the natives worshiped ... many gods, while some worshiped none at all. Lery writes, "Not only are they utterly ignorant of the sole and true God; what is more, in contrast to the custom of all the ancient paga...

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... ). There are several examples to back up this statement. The United States entered the War of 1812 after she perceived Britain of continuously violating the international law of freedom of the seas for neutral states. The tyrannical colonial rule of the Spanish over Cuba and the Philippines and the sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine predicated American declaration of the Spanish-American War. President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly lead America into World War I after German U boats attacked Atlantic merchant shipping and ... their audacious aggression symbolized by the Zimmerman Telegram ...

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PEOPLE: FDR - President during WWII Truman - President who decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan Churchill - British Prime Minister Eisenhower - Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied troops in D-Day MacArthur - General who returns to Philippians - Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Rommel - General in charge of Afrika Korps Hitler - poorly educated Austrian; joined German workers party, became leader, changed name to Nazi; became Dictator of Germany Mussolini - in Fascist Party; declared himself Dictator of Italy Tojo - Dictator of Japan Stalin - Dictator of USSR Franco - Dictator of Spa...

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World War I was the culmination of events set in motion decades before that fateful day in 1914. Germany had been planning a war since the mid 1870's and military leaders were determined to have it. Europe had enjoyed a century of peace until an assassin's bullet crushed any hope of maintaining that peace. While the immediate cause for the start of WWI was the assignation of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, conflict on continental Europe was ... territories in Belgium, France, Russia, Romania and Serbia, and the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France. Also, the Fourteen Points called for the develop...

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... to become in economic unity despite all the difficulties that they faced. The three main economies are agriculture, manufacturing, and services. Transportation is a major mean of importance. The Fastest train in the world is France's trains a grande vitesse. The continent of Europe is a huge peninsula that extends westward from the landmass. Europe has a long coastline, many peninsulas, and is surrounded by many seas. Rivers are very important because they provide ... the period of the Russian Empire. The ideas of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin shaped the political and cult...

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... Era, dinosaurs lived in a climate that was much milder and less changing than the climate today. Areas near the seas, and along rivers and lakes, may have had mild, moist weather all year round. Inland regions were drier and in some cases, desert like. Toward the end of the Reptile Age, the climate grew cooler and the change of seasons became more distinct. It was during these changes that ... had horns or spikes to use for defense. It is not certain why the dinosaurs died out. Scientist have developed many theories. One major theory is that of a gradual change in climate toward the end...

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... that made the long journey across the seas to Australia. Most of the people who settled in Australia in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century came from England, Scotland and Ireland. Many of them paid their own fares to migrate to Australia. When Australia needed workers the government assisted migrants by paying part or all of their fares to travel. After the Second World War the third wave of migrants came ... to Australia. They came because of ... ...

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... , which heavily impacted European exploration. Through exploration, the monarchs in Europe hoped to increase their fortune by trade and in building profitable empires. The people who undertook these explorations from Spain were called conquestidors. The conquestidors searched for riches and even journeyed across the seas to seek land. As a result of their overseas explorations, they found new trading products, ... such as barely, rye, sugar and coffee from Africa. The discovery of these new products led to the creation of early trading networks. Soon Europe began to successfully ... fo...

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... moved to Spain. Like everyone else in his time, Columbus knew the world was round. He theorized that since the earth was a sphere, you could eventually reach the Far East from the opposite direction, he thought to establish trade routes to Asia in this manner. The fifteenth century Europeans were not aware of the South and North American continents during this time frame. Map makers ... 1492. Columbus promised to bring back gold, spices, and silks form the Far East, to spread Christianity, and to lead an expedition to China. In return, Christopher Columbus wanted to have three things th...

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... and the disappointment after the peace treaty from Berlin, we did that mistake two or three times. The Balkan wars, the first and the second world wars were lead just for a goal: Tzar Simeon's Bulgaria, Bulgaria on three seas, powerful enough to destroy any country as big as the Byzantine Empire. And all these wars ended in disaster. Economic crisis after crisis and finally the communism. The disaster of the disasters. Maybe the ... only worst thing is the Turkish slavery. These mistakes were made because of the old understanding ... ...

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... rising populations, increasing consumption of fish and expanding markets have made the fisheries a target for ever-growing numbers of nations. New technologies that allow the fish to be vacuumed out of the sea have brought hundreds of fish species close to exhaustion. As the fish stocks around the world continue to decline, competition and conflict increase. For the past 500 years, the seas off Atlantic Canada have supported one of the world's richest commercial fisheries. It ... all started in 1497 when an explorer from England, John Cabot found his ship literally trapped in an aggrega...

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... , illustration, graphic arts, ceramics, metalware, and other accessories of the 1920s and 1930s. Its imagery reflected the events of two key and contrasting decades in American history - celebrating the technological marvels of the modern age, the social frivolities of the roaring twenties, and the heroic workers of the depression years". Art Deco was not started in American culture. It took shape over seas in Europe. One of the first showcases was in Paris in 1925 called ... the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes, which displayed delicately worked Fren...

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... which sea captains traveled the seas varied. However, the conventional path of travel was as follows: New England to Africa back to the West Indies, then to New England, then to Europe. Shippers and traders took this path because the Americas provided goods such as lumber and flour and some manufactured goods which Africa lacked. In turn, the New World gained African slaves; which the New World obviously lacked. This ... fellow humans. The second leg of the Triangular Trade formed the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage consisted primarily of slave trade from African empires to the New W...

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