Balkans

conflict. The often reckless decisions made by their governments that were meant to protect their pride and dignity resulted in competition and disputes that sparked the beginning of the Great War. Nationalism had a tremendous impact on the Slavs in the Balkans and parts of the Austrian Empire, and was the driving force behind the bullets shot from Gavrilo Princip’s gun. The pride the Slavs felt for their own people resulted in their aspiration of uniting into a single Slavic kingdom. Gavrilo…

Dangers of Radiation. Soldiers have been put in danger throughout recent history due to negligence with nuclear material and weapons testing. Either through having soldiers being at the actual test sites when the bombs were detonated or having them complete military exercises afterwards or getting the site ready for the next weapons test. Having soldiers move around radioactive material, living on bases nearby radioactive material, getting unknowingly bombarded by radiation to see its effects…

Austria-Hungary, the Central Powers, were connected by “formal as well as sentimental bonds “ [Gilber, pg. 4]. Germany promised their support for Austria in any actions against Serbia to push them out of Albania, after Serbia took control of after the Second Balkan War . [Gilber, pg. 10] Historical clashes and fears created between the States in Europe created early hatred for each other. For instance, Germany feared that they were being encircled by the Triple Entente which consisted of…

World War I was known as “A war to end all wars” – HA! If only there were such a thing – to live in perfect harmony is only a dream. World War I didn’t solve any of the initial problems that caused it, which contributed to the outbreak of World War II. Everything afterwards didn’t unfold as expected. The German empire rebuilt itself, Hitler rose as Dictator, and millions of bodies followed. It’s as if World War I was just the opening scene to a gruesome horror film. The things you have to…

Roman Empire did not fall in a day. It took a great deal of years for this empire to become feeble and fall. During this fall, there grew two distinct worlds, the West and the East. They were very surprising from each other. The attacking armed force came to the edges of Rome, which had been left absolutely undefended. In 410 A.C., the Visigoths, broke the dividers of Rome and breached the walls. As a result they sacked the capital of the Roman Empire. The Visigoths plundered, looted, burned,…

There is a lack of artistic artefacts (paintings or sculptures) from the early Ottomans, however it is evident from the surviving buildings that Byzantine, Mamluk and Persian traditions impacted Ottoman art. When the Ottomans conquered the former Byzantine capital Constantinople, art and architecture experienced significant changes. However many people still wonder What rulers of the Ottoman Empire were interested in developing the art and architecture of the empire and what were their…

assumed that the disease started near the Himalayan mountain range. In 1333 the plague killed thousands of people in China and the disease started spreading west . By 1347 it had reached Constantinople, and it continued rapidly west through the Balkans, Italy, France,…

animosities, then there was not much that outsiders to the region could do to stop it. But this makes too much of history (especially the Serb defeat at the hands of the Turks in 1389), leaving the "web of animosity'' as an ill-fated but lasting fact of Balkan life. As Holbrooke sees it, "Yugoslavia's tragedy was not foreordained. It was the product of bad, even criminal, political and financial gain." Television even had a role to play in unleashing the ugly head of "violence-provoking…

The time period between 1815 and 1914 was a time of uncertainty among the Great Powers in Europe. The center of the insecurity among the countries in Europe was the steady and fearful decline of the Ottoman empire. Due to this factor, conflicts among the Great Powers was caused by the fear of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire due to the fact that the fall of the Ottomans would unleash chaos upon Europe that has not been seen since the Napoleonic wars, and the since the establishment of the…

domestication of animals, making of fabrics, modeling of ceramics and cultivation of the earth. It was nevertheless a time of revolutionary changes in the ways of life. Some of the most important Neolithic nations appeared in the Middle East and the Balkan Peninsula. Agriculture occupied above all a pre-eminent place in the Chinese, Hindu, Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. The first…