How did Athens change under the rule of Pericles? How did democracy change or evolve from Solon to Pericles? How did Pericles become popular with the Athenian people? How did Pericles justify Athenian imperialism? How did Cleisthenes change Athenian government? How did Pericles' Funeral Ora...
The Roosevelt Corollary stated that in the case where European countries had a legitimate claim or debt owed to them by a Latin American country, America would intervene on the side of the European powers without having to involve them in order to keep them out of the region while still ...
How Did Imperialism Cause Ww1 Nationalism was a huge contributor to the outbreak of World War 1. Every single country wanted to be more powerful than any other country and that led to power struggles. Nationalism didn’t only cause the assassination of the Archduke, but Germany wasn’t comple...
Columbia University officials did not respond to an email asking about the school’s position on the legacy of the 1968 events. Those events, like the current protest, “sparked a huge increase in student activism around the country,” Mark Rudd, a leader of that protest, said in an email...
Get over it Pilger; Blair lining his pockets is not the problem. As for the principles of right and wrong he requires of his own children, that is an entirely personal matter that is also, not the problem, and I guarantee you that Blair is not haunted in any way by what he did. ...
While languages have always been dying through human history, the current rate of decline has accelerated due to factors such as globalization, mass migration, cultural assimilation, imperialism, (neo)colonialism, and linguicide — the intentional suppression or eradication of a language. It is estima...
Now, the group that did it, M19, claimed they were fighting imperialism.What they were really fighting for, was the threat to the foundations of democracy. These were radicals. Now, why am I bringing this up today?Because if you're going to understand today, and the future, you have ...
How did the Dutch East India Company conduct business? Absolute Power or Incorporation? The power of the Dutch came from their being a constitutional republic. Rather than centralize all power in one person with absolute authority, the Dutch decided to form an oligarchy, splitting up power among...
In my eyes at least, geography had become profound – something central to what it is to be on this Earth. At that time there did not seem to be any contradiction between liking Tuan's work and simultaneously being enthused by the Marx-infused work of cultural studies. Humanistic geography...
How did the battle over the island of Okinawa influence the decision of the United States to use the atomic bomb? To what extent did the Cold War have an impact on the Civil Rights Movement? In what ways did Japan and China respond to Western imperialism between 1890 and the ...