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John Locke was an English philosopher regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and generally considered the "Father of Classical Liberalism". In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch. Locke argued that people have rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, which have a foundation independent of the laws of any particular society…

The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th century marks the transitions from an agricultural based society to an industrial nation. It boosted humankind's capacity to be productive, allowing the products we made and the things we used- whether for travel, items of clothing, and many more - to be made better and more efficiently. This revolution was not just impacting in it’s spread of new machines and technology, factories and air pollutions. It changed how people lived, and the…

Question 1: Many sultans initiated military reforms in the Ottoman Empire through military from the 18th century to the 20th century. As a result, some of them forced to leave the throne or were assassinated. Mahmud II learned from the mistakes of his predecessor, Selim II. For example, he developed an elite army to defeat the Janissary forces that have once been the dominant force in the Ottoman Empire. After getting rid of the Janissaries, Mahmud II began creating diplomatic divisions within…

the world’s most hated man whom took millions of Jews lives, but certainly this insane man had to have got into power somehow. This particular Dictator came to power by confronting his people about the current issues happening in both Germany and Prussia; although what he said was true, Hitler had done the complete opposite from what he said he was going to do. This led him to fall from power which led to a nation falling to create many little nations from it. Adolf Hitler was born in…

Conflict theory originated from the classical founder of social science Karl Marx in the 1800s. The perspective was generally based on work by Karl Marx even though several other scholars have contributed immensely in the development of this theory. He viewed class conflict and exploitation as a moving force in society. Conflict theory generally surrounds the idea that most struggles in society happen because of conflicts among different social classes or groups. As opposed to functionalist…

Many aspects of the treaty were extremely harsh towards Germany. The military clauses were the harshest and most damaging clauses of them all, and were greatly disapproved by Germany. Before the start of the Great war Germany was an extremely militaristic country, the Kaiser was militaristic and anybody of power were all involved in the military in some points of their lives. Having built a society on Militarism the military clauses were the hardest of all the clauses for the germans to accept…

The engines of militarism and ultranationalism drove World War II to the depths of darkness in human history. The wars in Europe and Asia shared aspects of ultranationalism and yet were dissimilar in how these nations arrived at World War II and how they reacted afterwards. There is no question as to whether ultranationalist motives and racial myths insinuated human rights violations. However, war guilt remains a controversial and unsettled issue today. While ideas of glorification, racial…

Karl Marx was born on 1818 in Trier Prussia, which is now present day Germany, and died 1883 in London (Zinn, P. pp). He was an economist, historian, philosopher, and a revolutionary socialist during his time; he is most know for the Communist Manifesto, which was published in 1848 and gave way to the Communist party (Zinn, P. pp). Marx was born into a somewhat well-off “bourgeois” family, where he began to study humanities at the University of Bonn (Zinn, P. pp). He then left after a year and…

Towson 2008, p. 13). Consequently, the Kings commitment to foreign policy involving warfare on both land and sea, drew France into a number of conflicts; the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48), followed by occupation of Austrian Silesia by Prussia in late 1748 (Stone 2002, pp. 15-16). However, the inter-imperial struggle between France and Britain in the Seven Years War 1754- 1763, was particularly devastating for France (Reese & Towson 2008, p. 13; Spieler 2012, p. 57). As a result of…

Clausewitz’s paradoxical trinity Prussian military general and theorist Carl von Clausewitz provided a clear perspective on the character and nature of war through his paradoxical trinity. Clausewitz suggests that war is a timeless paradoxical trinity made up of hatred, violence and enmity; chance and probability, and subordination to rational policy. He suggested that violence is a blind natural force; chance and probability allows the creative spirit to roam; and the subordination as an…