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    1. The Bronze Age Civilization of the Aegean took place during ca. 3000-1200 B.C.E This time period consisted of two civilizations, the Minoan (ca. 2000-1400 B.C.E.) and the Mycenaean (ca. 1600-1200 B.C.E). On the island of Crete, the Minoan civilization was centered in the palace of Minos at Knossos. This culture was thriving and traveled by sea quiet often. The palace consisted of frescoes demonstrating numerous aspect of Cretan life. Of all the frescoes in the palace the most recognized is…

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    The sinking of the U.S.S Maine was a US warship that sank under mysterious circumstances in cuba’s Havana Harbor. The explosion of the battleship was blamed on the spanish, even though there was no proof, and was probably caused by an accident that happened onboard. In January 24, 1898 the U.S…

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    as a Christ-figure because he was innocence, young, handsome sailor who has only recently entered into the naval forces. When he go back to the British Isles on board the ship Rights-of-Man, he is impressed into duty by the H.M.S. Bellipotent, a warship was looking for extra sailors. Billy is the only member of Rights-of-Man selected to change ranks by the representative of the Bellipotent, Lieutenant Ratcliffe. Without complaint, Billy accepts his reassignment, much to Ratcliffe’s satisfaction.…

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    The Japanese attacked by coming from the north and killed over 2,000 Americans. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they wanted to destroy all american fleet units. The outcome of the attack caused Japan many consequences and the entrance of World War ll. Japan's only possible chance was a surprise attack to destroy the Pearl Harbor as fast as possible. The Japanese used multiple ships that had destroyed American fleet units. Ships had carried everyone's land bombs. The Japanese planes…

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    Jules Ferry Imperialism

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    that as a superior race they had a duty to civilize the lower races and that it was a generous thing to do. He also argues that France needs safe harbors with supply centre in the high seas that can be provided by their colonies such as Tunisia. A warship naval despite being powerful cannot have storage for a two weeks supply of coal and without coal a vessel in the high seas will be a wreck and therefore require storage and shelters for provisioning of the same. As patriots therefore, they…

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    of jobs. Hiroshima had become one of the best automobile developers, and built great ships ,and the people who lived there were good metal workers. The allied forces had gotten word from their intelligence agents that Hiroshima was building a big warship, so it became a target for the Allied forces.…

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    Ww1 Alliance System

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    Herzegovina and Bosnia, where annexed which was resented by many Serbs and Croats. The United States entered WWI uniting with the allies in 1917, April 6th when the house of representatives had voted 373 to 50 to go to war after Germany had sunk a warship using a submarine. A supreme of World War One was battle of Verdun a war among Germany and France, where Germans lost 430,000 people, and French lost 540,000. Germany had finally fallen when the Kiel Mutiny, a mutiny where sailors revolted in…

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    From a young age Americans are taught that they live in the best country in the world. They are taught that our way of thinking is always correct and better than everyone else's. We don’t even notice it happening because it occurs in such subtle ways: through schools, news media, television shows and movies, and much more. These things portray America as a great country that never does anything wrong and make us view the United States of America in a way that is not completely accurate. They…

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    October 1962 marked the beginning of a massive standoff between two powers in the wake of Cold War hostility. The American government was informed that a nuclear capable Soviet Union had established a weapons silo in Cuba. With nuclear weaponry only a mere 90 miles from American shores, a political uproar would soon ensue. President John F. Kennedy announced such news on the twenty-second of October, along with his plan of enacting a naval blockade around the coastal island. This plan…

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    The Federation of Australia was when six separate, self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia united to establish the Commonwealth of Australia. The federation of Australia was a difficult process as the states could not agree on the final constitution. At first, the idea of Federation was quite unpopular. Each colony had view themselves as a country and citizens had grown patriotic of their own . One of the more…

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