Voltaire once said: “History is a lie that most people agree upon.” In order to understand history, historians use a method called “historical thinking.” Historians don’t just look at evidence and learn the facts. Rather, historical thinking is asking so what? Why are these pieces of information important? How can we take the past and relate it to our times? Part of historical thinking is learning about change. Studying early modern history and comparing and contrasting these events to our modern day helps us understand both change and the past and present more. One overall theme that was common in the past and is relatively common now is military conflicts. ISIS in contrast with the concept of religious tolerance is an example of a modern
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Napoleon made military mistakes. For example, Napoleon angers Spain, Russia, and Britain by doing several things like simply attacking them. The mistakes Juan Carlos made weren’t military mistakes. Rather, Juan Carlos was just spending money on trips and women. Instead of using the country’s money to help fight wars and expand land, Juan Carlos used the country’s money to pay off his affairs with women. Juan Carlos instead of learning from Napoleon’s mistakes as ruler makes even dumber mistakes. At least with Juan Carlos, his mistakes didn’t lead to wars. Wars are obviously very bad both militarily and financially. Two wars that are very similar are the Iran-Iraq War and World War …show more content…
One of these tactics was trench warfare. Trench warfare was a military tactic that involved fighting from trenches, making advancing very difficult. Life in the trenches was not easy either. Disease spread and the weather was not always pleasing. Another tactic used in both the Iran-Iraq War and World War One was mustard gas. Mustard gas destroys the respiratory system, and it is very painful. It takes a long time to die from it. The Iraqis took these strategies and used them themselves. These strategies in specific are not good strategies, yet the Iraqis still used them. This may be because the Iranians and Iraqis thought they could learn from the mistakes made in World War One and tweak the way the tactics operated. Doing this will, hopefully, allow them to succeed. Even though the tactics of the two wars were similar, the way the two wars started were
Napoleon made military mistakes. For example, Napoleon angers Spain, Russia, and Britain by doing several things like simply attacking them. The mistakes Juan Carlos made weren’t military mistakes. Rather, Juan Carlos was just spending money on trips and women. Instead of using the country’s money to help fight wars and expand land, Juan Carlos used the country’s money to pay off his affairs with women. Juan Carlos instead of learning from Napoleon’s mistakes as ruler makes even dumber mistakes. At least with Juan Carlos, his mistakes didn’t lead to wars. Wars are obviously very bad both militarily and financially. Two wars that are very similar are the Iran-Iraq War and World War …show more content…
One of these tactics was trench warfare. Trench warfare was a military tactic that involved fighting from trenches, making advancing very difficult. Life in the trenches was not easy either. Disease spread and the weather was not always pleasing. Another tactic used in both the Iran-Iraq War and World War One was mustard gas. Mustard gas destroys the respiratory system, and it is very painful. It takes a long time to die from it. The Iraqis took these strategies and used them themselves. These strategies in specific are not good strategies, yet the Iraqis still used them. This may be because the Iranians and Iraqis thought they could learn from the mistakes made in World War One and tweak the way the tactics operated. Doing this will, hopefully, allow them to succeed. Even though the tactics of the two wars were similar, the way the two wars started were