4.Why does the professor mention the collapse of the Roman Empire? A. To indicate that the spice trade became more direct B. To explain why the price of pepper suddenly increased C. To indicate that spices were not available in Europe for centuries ...
Why The Great Empires Collapse And Why Did They Fall? importantly the Roman Empire.Whydo they fall‚ and howdidthey collapse? An empire can collapse in various of ways. For example‚ poor militaries‚ politics‚ a weak economy‚ or even because of the religion. For instance‚ milit...
A growing group of Gates’s intended beneficiaries today criticize him as doing more harm than good, and some have explicitly asked him to stop helping. “Bill Gates Should Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need,” noted the headline of an op-ed in Scientific American, a...
Why was NATO important to the Cold War? Why was the Ottoman Empire considered such a valuable ally? Why was the annexation of Crimea illegal? Why was St. Petersburg so important to the Russian Empire? Why did Russia enter WW1? Why was the Russian army near collapse by 1916?
Perestroika and Collapse These early reforms failed to revive the increasingly stagnant Soviet economy, with productivity growth falling below zero by the early 1980s.6This ongoing poor economic performance led to a more radical set of reforms under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. While attempting...
As it happens, Greek philosophy, and Indian and Chinese, were different from what came before; and we can specify what the differences were. Pre-philosophical thought can be characterized as "mythopoeic," "mythopoetic," or "mythic" thought. "Mythopoeic" means "making" (ποιεῖν, poi...
What brought Rome to present a military campaign against the small and distant province of Judaea as a great victory? Why did such a small rebellion succeed for so many years? What brought Titus to raze the most important metropolis of Judaea when much less would have put down the rebellion...
AfterMikhail Gorbachevbecame General Secretary of the former Soviet Union Communist Party in 1985, he began implementing reforms that party hardliners feared would lead to the empire’s collapse. Among those changes was to meet with U.S. PresidentRonald Reaganand sign ...
Why did the Russian Empire become the Soviet Union? Why did Germany side with Austria-Hungary in WW1? Why did the Ottoman Empire join WW1? Why did the Yalta Conference fail? Why did the Greek Empire fall? Why were there so many famines in the Soviet Union? Why did the Rwandan Civil ...
century. I accurately predicted the collapse of certain African states in the late 1990s and therise of political Islam in Turkeyand other places. Islam, I wrote, was a religion ideally suited for the badly urbanized poor who were willing tofight. I also got things wrong, such as the proba...