Although the third estate consisted of the majority of France they had little representative power. ... In September of 1793, Robespierre, leader of the French resistance, suspended the new declaration of independence and installs the Rule of the Guillotine. ... Over 17,000 people were officially tried and executed during the Rule of the Guillotine; more died in prison or were executed without trial. The new rule proved to be successful to Robespierre, the rebellions and insurrections that had been sprouting all over France had subsided and the soldiers fighting along the borders fought with m...

• Word Count: 1580
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

During the next 37 years, six tsars ruled Russia: three women, a boy of 12, an infant, and a mental weakling, as one contemporary observed. ... Her policies were equally complex, influenced on the one hand by new French ideas of social justice and the nobility of the human race, and on the other hand by traditional Russian ideas of absolute rule over an enserfed and subhuman population. ... Her reforms did little to enhance the lives of the vast majority of her people. ...

• Word Count: 1362
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Louis XIV ruled France with absolute power and the German starting seeing themselves more collectively as Germans rather than Bavarians, Prussians or any other German region. ... In the 20th century these imperial colonies themselves experiences various nationalistic movements to establish their own rule in their nations and to gain independence from the European rule as in India, Nigeria and other colonized nations. ... It was inevitable that nationalism would take a turn towards the right as the core concept of nationalism that one's nation is superior to the rest is the seed to majorit...

• Word Count: 1522
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• Has Bibliography

I am going to try and prove that although many influences and events lead up to Nazi rule, the main theme is the desperation of the German people and ripe economic atmosphere. ... Coming in with a whole new set of rules, a republic that was not popular to begin with. ... In a move to have control over government to move his measures through, Chancellor Bruning convinces President Hindenburg to invoke Article 48 of the constitution which gives the president power to rule by decree in a state of emergency. ... It became the biggest party but not a majority. ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

EMU should be introduced only if and when the majority of member countries fulfill the criteria. ... Ending devastation and exploitation of the environment, fighting social in justice, defending civil liberties and enhancing gender democracy and individual freedom, as well as supporting the development of democracy and the rule of law world-wide and a policy for non violence remain the fundamental orientation of the party. ... However, in a party conference at the end of 2001, there was an overwhelming majority for a resolution that explained our party position on the fight against terrorism...

• Word Count: 1917
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When he took office in 1862, he called that the government would rule without parliamentary consent, but he had the Prussian bureaucracy go right on collecting taxes, even though the parliament refused the bill. He reorganized the army and for 4 years he sent large liberal majorities to the parliament. ... By 1900 nearly the whole continent was under European rule. ... Jules of Ferry and Otto von Bismarck of Germany wanted to lay down some basic ground rules, so to say, to establish principles of European claiming to African territory. ...

• Word Count: 1851
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the effects of the Berlin Conference which establish the rules of the partition game became clear, those areas of Africa which had previously been developing significant trade and economies of their own were brought under the control of European economic policies. ... However even in these social orders, the vast majority were occupied with horticulture in provincial towns or residences. ...

• Word Count: 2178
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

By reestablishing the Roman Catholic Church, he won the support of the large majority of peasant-farmers. ... It is important that we are able to see what the reality of the situation was for the people ruled by Napoleon. ...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Netherlands were under the rule of the Hapsburg Empire but there were a series of uprisings and revolts in Netherlands. Netherlands was economically very powerful, technologically advanced, and the majority of the population was Protestant. ...

• Word Count: 1537
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

What do you consider to be the most significant factors that have shaped Britain's approach to the European Union (EU) since its inception in the early 1950's? "We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not combined. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed." ...

• Word Count: 2341
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Videotape is an idea that many people who've never had a job in law enforcement favor, but it's simply asinine when one considers the rules of evidence. ... The overwhelming majority of serious prisoners are in for well under 20 years, actual time served. ...

• Word Count: 2332
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School