This system was however relatively brief, and soon the Greek states had collapsed into war and foreign domination, eventually ending up under the heel of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire contained dozens of provinces and many more peoples, many of whom could interact with each other easily for the first time. ... The Roman Empire and the Chinese Empire were connected by the Silk Road, and there was some trade between the two societies. Indeed, Roman coins have turned up as far away as Cambodia - surely this shows a world system? ... The peace of Westphalia After the Roman Empire fell, ...

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The British were involved in the usual strategic planning aiming at securing their access to the Empire and, in the end, the arms race "contributed to the feeling that war was inevitable." ... The Austro-Hungarian Empire was losing its geopolitical integrity; Britain had to deal with the Ulster Irish question that was about to overspill; France had as issues taxation and the Three-Year service issue. ... Britain had an Empire to defend; Russia was pushing in the Middle East and was already present in Persia; Italy wanted to live up to its glorious past and Germany wanted to create its own sea ...

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Germany were a new power in Europe, in 1871 German leader Otto von Bismarck created a new empire. However, the emergence of the German empire had upset the balance of Central Europe maintained for centuries by the Holy Roman Empire. ... Britain already had an overseas empire but also France and the Dutch had colonies in dispersed parts of Asia and Africa. ... He wanted to imitate the British success and create an empire such as theirs. ...

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Occupied for centuries by the Romans, Turks, Austrians, and Hungarians, the Balkan people were forced to adopt the methods of irregular warfare in the struggle against them. ... They were soon joined by Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. ...

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The feeling of respite which England held towards the US did not last forever however, as the US would soon rise to a place of glory taking her seat in the annals of history alongside world powers such as England before her, the Roman Empire, the Grecian Empire of old whom the US borrowed her form government. ... With the US naval base in Pearl Harbor being bombed by the Empire of Japan in 1941, the US was once again thrust into global warfare. ...

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A skilled diplomat or an oppurtunitist, which term best described Bismarck's style of leadership between 1871-1890? Bismarck, who was mainly known as the Iron Chancellor", was both, a skilled diplomat and an oppurtunitist in his chancellor years 1871-1890. "Bismarck was a Machiavellian and immora...

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The Evolution of Technology and Warfare Warfare has built up and devastated nations, it has molded and destroyed cultures, since the beginning of civilization, warfare has left its impact on humanity, and it affects every aspect of human culture and life. Some historians and psychologists argu...

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World war one caused destruction to human life and property on such a scale that never had been witnessed before. The destruction didn't end there however as the pre-war political system also was destroyed. Thus the post war Europe saw differing political beliefs fighting for control. While the vict...

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When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. ... Also in this poem Wilfred Owen challenges a line from Odes by Roman poet Horace - "Dulce et decorum Est pro patria mori", which translated means "It is sweet and proper to die for ones country". ...

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While Britain and France were constantly in quest of expanding their empires at the cost of their adversaries, the United States was not in the war for Empirical gains. ... Such exposure to new democratic ideals during the war put the old European empires under constant tension that would eventually lead to their collapse in the 21st century. ... He promised to rebuild Italy and recreate the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire had been (and still is) a major source of pride for any Italian and the thought of having such glory again within the country immediately began to turn heads. ... Mussolini d...

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(The word fascism derives from the Latin fasces: an ax surrounded by a bundle of sticks that represented the authority of the Roman state. ... In 1929, he settled Italy's sixty-year-old con- flict with the Roman Catholic Church. He signed a treaty that granted independence to the papal residence in the Vatican City and established Roman Catholicism as the official religion of the state. ...

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The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...

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Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. ... Death, as taught in such establishments, was not one of dehumanising pain where, "eyes writhe in his face" (Dulce Et Decorum Est) after a gas attack, but rather one of Greek and Roman victories together with the "Esprit de corps" and of "daggers in plaid socks" (Disabled). ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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