Columbus was looking for another shipping route to reach eastern Asia. ... When studying World History it must be taken into account why Columbus was looking for another route to eastern Asia and what the trade situation was throughout the rest of the world, including Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. ... Terrorist groups that have been traced back to primarily the Middle East recently attacked the United States of America. ...

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Fukuzawa urged middle class people in Japan to nurture a civilization because they have knowledge and intellect. He used examples from Europe to show some middle classes did there such as the lays of polictial economy and changed the way of commerce by Adam smith. ... Granted that a nation's destiny depends upon the education of its people, there must be some fundamental differences in the education of Western and Eastern peoples. ... For example, there was a concern among some not to lose the soul of the nation in the rush towards modernization, which leaded to the popular slogan, "Easte...

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His Fourfold Cultural Balance theory states there were four distinct zones (Europe, Middle East Africa, India, and China) of civilization development that were marked by a unique culture. ... The Caravan routes traded Middle Eastern African luxury items, such as ostrich feathers and precious metals, with the Europeans. ...

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How did Europe catch up and eventually surpass the great civilizations in the Middle East and the Orient? ... As Crusade after Crusade sent massive waves of Europeans to the Middle Eastern "Holy Land" and back again, traders began to take their wares with them, in order to bring back Middle Eastern spices, textiles, and any other goods they could possibly sell in their homeland. ... As merchants gained power, other middle-class professions appeared to cater to them, such as lawyers, bankers, accountants, and notaries. ... The new middle class allowed craftsmen to specialize entirely in the ...

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Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. ... With EU's dependence on external oil supplies rising to 90% by 2020 with imports derived substantially from politically unstable areas, notably in the Middle East and Russia, whose share of Europe's import market has been growing in recent years. ...

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In North America the era began with the downward thrusts of the earths crust along the eastern, southeastern and western sides of the continent while the interior was dry land. ... The term, meaning middle life, was introduced in 1841 by the English geologist John Phillips. ... The Appalachian Mountains replaced the downward thrust of the earth's crust, while the eastern part of the Appalachian Mountains was deposited along the coast or into the Atlantic Ocean. ...

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The extremely argument in the middle of vote based system and imperialism recognizes Europe. ... In that sense, Europe primarily has appeared to be a bipolar model: social popular government versus oppression; Manichean; a fight in the middle of good and fiendishness. ... The immense divider in the middle of European and American philosophies, the political watershed of the 20th century. ... Also, in any case, some Europeans wonder, what is the distinction today in the middle of Left and Right? ... The fundamental debate in politics is hardly ever stop, because the development of society alway...

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Foot and Mouth Disease has become an issue of common awareness, seeping through every aspect of the media into every common household. Although the terminology itself is becoming a familiar phrase, the ramifications of this destructive disease are neither being presented nor explained to the general public. A mere glance of interest towards this agriculturally injurious epidemic reveals many layers of concern that not only affect those individuals and businesses that maintain a close and direct relationship with the realm of the disease, but that also have broader global effects. To complet...

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After that, for a prolonged period of over hundreds of years the information and learning of the Middle Ages sustained to originate from the departments that Charlemagne created. ... The western side of the Franconian Empire went to Karl the Bald and the eastern region of the Franconian Empire went to Ludwig the German. ... The land which was on the eastern side of above mentioned part was given to Louis and the western part of the Lothaire was handed over to Charles. ...

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From the CIA World Factbook data I have drawn these conclusions through a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that I created: Country GDP (as of 1/1/00) Military Spending as of (1/1/00) Austria $190.6 billion $1.7 billion Belgium 243.4 billion 2.8 billion Denmark 127.7 billion 2.822 billion Finland 108.6 billion 1.8 billion France 1.373 trillion 39.831 billion Germany 1.864 trillion 32.8 billion Greece 149.2 billion 4.04 billion Ireland 73.7 billion 732 million Italy 1.212 trillion 23.294 billion Luxembourg 14.7 billion 131 million The Netherlands 365.1 billion 6.956 billion Portugal 151...

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Eastern Europe and the Balkans witnessed an unprecedented change in the nature and scale of international armed conflicts, in the unprecedented collapse of its established blocs and multi-ethnic empires in a manner that reflected in and influenced by the continued change and advances in technological and scientific innovations. ... In the process, Many Armenians fled to Syria, Western Europe and Middle East in during the First World War between 1914 and 1919. ...

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The tension and interdependence of the concepts of the empire and nation state in 19th century Europe was founded on the basis of the power struggle and division of ideas, being both nationalistic and imperial, over what Europe represents and what it should aspire to become. Differences in ideology between ideas of empires and nations had also accounted for geo-political divides. It represents the individuality that some movements had sought to find and thus, resist from any form of imperial rule. The rise of nationalistic and nation-orientated movements and revolutions, in opposition to any f...

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Subsequent to the Middle Ages, populations in Western Europe began developing technology that enhanced their ability to generate products and which led to significantly higher standards of living than populations elsewhere on the planet. ... European cities and transportation systems also gave the western societies distinct advantages over their eastern neighbors when discussion is focused on the industrial revolution. ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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These included a small number of German prisoners of war, a large number of refugees from the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the soviet union (130,00uprising poles arrived the first few years after the war and 14,000 Hungarians after the failure of the 1956 uprising in Hungary), substantial numbers of Irish and Italian laborers, and a wide variety of displaced persons from refugee camps throughout Europe. ...

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