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The main topics in question is whether worldwide decolonization after 1945 resolved or caused more problems. I will examine the advantages and disadvantages of decolonization after 1945 and use my researched knowledge and opinion to discover if it actually did create more problems than it solved. Just to clarify decolonization is considered a process of getting rid of colonization, or freeing a country from being dependent of another country. This means a country that was previously controlled…

Suleiman the Magnificent What was Suleiman the Magnificent’s greatest accomplishment and how did it impact the Ottoman Empire? In 1494, a baby boy was born in Trabzon, Turkey, to Sultan Selim I as the only surviving heir, with little knowledge of, when he came to the throne in 1520, his great destiny. His destiny would hold forty-six years of many achievements in “which the Ottomans would reach the apex of their history.” This baby’s name was Sultan Suleiman I, a ruler later recognized by his…

1. After watching all seven parts of the documentary "The Real Eve", please describe the route(s) that the earliest humans took out of Africa and how humans eventually arrived on several continents, as explained in the documentary. Please include a minimum of SIX specific countries, bodies of water, continents, OR other locations referred to in the video--SIX locations total. There are two possible routes that the earliest humans took out of Africa. One was North of the Red Sea across the Sues…

The Mediterranean was heavily influenced by numerous waves of colonization during the Archaic Greek through Roman periods (c. 750BCE-AD400). Frequent voyages over land and sea meant that different social groups were beginning to interacting with one another. One group that ushered in an age of colonization in the Mediterranean region were the Greeks, who prior to exploration were cultivators of the land (Wilson, 2006:27). However, because their homeland was mountainous prime regions for…

“The Mongols after about 1240 held Russia in subjugation for 200 years. The Ottoman Turks, who had originated in central Asia, penetrated the Byzantine Empire, crushed the medieval Serbian Kingdom at the battle of Kosovo in 1389, and spread over the Balkans. They took Constantinople itself in 1453” (Palmer Colton Kramer 47). In the fourteenth century, nearly half of the European population were killed by an incurable disease called the Black Death, or Bubonic Plague. “In some places whole…

is mobilizing their military. Russia is defending Serbia because most inhabitants of Serbia closer associate with Russia (in religion, tradition, culture, and language), Serbia is allied with Russia, and holds a valuable strategic position in the Balkans. Germany mobilized their military because Russia mobilized theirs in response to the Austro-Hungarian military threatening Serbia. Austria-Hungary is most to blame because of their pointed and unfair demands and threats to Serbia after the…

America was increasing. The Zimmerman Telegram was one of the main reasons we got involved in to the Great War. For the rest of the world there were six major causes of World War I such as Nationalism, Colonial Rivalries, Militarism, Naval arms race, Balkans,…

There were over 35 million civilian and soldier casualties in WWI. Over 15 million died and 20 million were wounded. These figures are actually terrifying. The question is: what were main causes that made First World War more likely? Although there were many factors involved, I believe that the combination of nationalism, militarism and imperialism were the most influential in causing the conflict. First of all, I want to discuss nationalism. Nationalism was a great cause of WWI. The…

consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. It all started on June 28th 1914, when the Black Hand, a terrorist group in Serbia, assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary mainly because Serbia has the desire to have land in the Balkans and increase nationalism in Serbia. As events transpired, the tensions grew throughout Europe. As Austria-Hungary sends an ultimatum to Serbia and Serbia refused it, Russia came into the picture and started mobilizing troops to help…

The Causes of World War 1/ the Great War The Great War, or what most people know it as World War 1, was an extremely bloody war that took place in Europe from 1914-1919. World War 1 caused an estimated of 10 million soldier deaths and 20 million more wounded. Finally, at the end of 1918, the Versailles Treaty was signed by the countries taking part in the war, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Britain, France and Russia, which was a treaty that ended the state of war between Germany and the…