In the first couple decades of the nineteenth century, a great majority of Americans did not see the value of an attractive yard and thus took no care in its upkeep. ... The amount of the members in the average American household never really changes until later in the nineteenth century, however we begin to see changes as early as the 1800s when couples begin to limit the size of their families. ... The United States was primarily a handmade land in the early nineteenth century; production was still small-scale and not yet mechanized nor standardized. ... Due to farming being of the utmost i...

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It is estimated that the real wage tended to be higher than that of the Orient and India during the thirteenth century and possibly even during the twelfth (Jones 3). ... It is estimated that at the start of the fourteenth century, the combined peoples of France, Germany and Britain supported 15 percent of the population through peasant work (meaning that 85 percent of the population were peasants). ... The Europeans even went so far as to legislate marriages as early as the eighteenth century. ... Introduced in the late-15th century, the printing press enabled scientists engaged in widely div...

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Prior to the twentieth century when jazz, blues, country, and rock and roll music entered the scene, almost all music was what we called "classical music." ... The classical period in music tends to be associated with the movement called the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment, which began earlier in the eighteenth century. ... This problem was solved in the mid-eighteenth century, when the foundation of the modern professional symphony was laid by violinist Johann Stamitz in the German city of Mannheim. ... It was in the eighteenth century that concert life began. ... The continued existen...

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In the late nineteenth century, American industry was flourishing, and Americans were becoming more wealthy. ... Such social maneuvering was crucial in late nineteenth century society, both in Europe and in America. ...

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During the late nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries, Nationalism was a prominent movement that had spread itself across Europe. ... Just as England had done for centuries, it had become desirable to seek out new land to rule under the laws and cultural beliefs of the "mother" country. ... The Balkans had been a problem in Europe for over a century as it was ruled by the Turkish "Ottoman Empire." ... In the early part of the twentieth century, militarism was as prominent as ever, with the recent industrial revolution being the main factor. ... At the turn of the century, Britain con...

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The nineteenth century romantics- A. ... Edgar Allan Poe- The short stories and poetry of 19th-century American Edgar Allan Poe reflect the writer's haunting imagination. ... The twentieth and twenty-first century romantics A. ... In being both traditional and skeptical, Frost's poetry helped provide a link between the American poetry of the 19th century and that of the 20th century. ... Cummings (1894-1962) - American poet, who was one of the most radically experimental and inventive writers of the 20th century. ...

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Cameron is quick to point out that the 'process of social polarization occurred in many west European urban communities between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries' (Cameron 57). ... Overall the from 15th century to the early 17th many historians see the development of towns and cities in early modern Europe as an age of progress due to the increase in capitalism and commerce which brought cities closer to modernity. ... For example Nuremberg, known by the early sixteenth century as 'the German Venice' in recognition of its status as a major European commerci...

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It emerged as a historical movement in the nineteenth century, rooted in the ambition of different peoples for self-determination. ... During the 20th century, the political geography of much of the world was transformed by anti colonialism. ...

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He was a leading intellectual figure and educational reformer of the later nineteenth century. This was the period known in Japanese history as the Meiji Restoration; after centuries of military governments which had followed a policy of enforced isolation from the outside world a revolution led to the re-establishment of imperial rule and the opening up of the country to overseas trade and technology. ... Fukuzawa was one of the first experts on the West in modern Japan, who was generally looked on positively as having played an important role in the modernization of late 19th-century Japan. ...

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Firstly, the Justinian plague in the sixth century then the 1260 plague and later the Black Death plague followed by the nineteenth to twentieth century plague, conveys that the disease was never fully gone during the Medieval period. ...

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After the sixteenth century, different realms were colonizing countries and domains everywhere throughout the world. ... Europeans established settlements in colonial coastal enclaves before the late nineteenth century. ... While colonization ranges and patterns firmly reflect worldwide plans of industrialization and monetary improvement, this is regardless an astounding change in examination to the circumstance toward the start of the twentieth Century, when basically 13 every penny from the populace lived in frontier regions and there had been only sixteen metropolitan territories on the pla...

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