After the collapse of the classical Greek and Roman empires, Western European civilization struggled with each other to become the dominant empire in the region. This period of instability in Western Europe made room for a new group to dominate; the Islamic Empires. ... Christianity quickly became the foundation used to stabilize Western Europe's warring kingdoms in the era following the collapse of Rome. ... For these reasons Western Europe didn't sufficiently develop or expand enough and remained a much divided rural society. ... Unlike Christianity, Islam corresponded with the c...

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The North America has free trade policies, as does the European union. These make North America and Europe the most powerful economic centres on Earth. ... Europe and the USA) ideas about economics, and putting them into practice. The success of this can be seen by how much fluctuations in, for example, the South Korean stock exchange affect the markets in the USA and Europe. ... Unlike Orwell's vision of a one-party dictatorship controlling hundreds of millions, we get instead the world being controlled by the stock markets, and fluctuations in currencies. ...

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The North America has free trade policies, as does the European union. These make North America and Europe the most powerful economic centres on Earth. ... Europe and the USA) ideas about economics, and putting them into practice. The success of this can be seen by how much fluctuations in, for example, the South Korean stock exchange affect the markets in the USA and Europe. ... Unlike Orwell's vision of a one-party dictatorship controlling hundreds of millions, we get instead the world being controlled by the stock markets, and fluctuations in currencies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Because of the civil war and the political confusion that occurred in Northern Europe, the vikings were able to raid the continent easily. ... The Vikings had remarkable sailing skills and were able to use those skills to their advantages, unlike the Germans before them. ... Because the Vikings were open to trading they were able to open up various routes in which they could use to trade throughout Europe. The Vikings caused mass destruction throughout the continent, but at the same time they were able to found states in Western Europe that were thought to be well organized. During the time th...

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While Russia's new appearance appealed to Europeans, it was their new social and government stability that enabled them to be accepted as a sociable European country. ... Like neighboring European nations, women were allowed to attend church and other public gatherings. ... However, unlike Peter I, she did not focus on reforming the government or economy. ... Petersburg with European style buildings and old fashioned art designs. Catherine admired European writing, inviting philosophers and writers to Russia to share their thoughts and work with her. ...

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But the most important ones are the ones which were located in Eastern Europe (Poland,Estonia etc.). ... Unlike the way that Stalinism or militarism caused the Soviet Union to collapse. ... The ethnic conflicts had caused great troubles in Bosnia, Kosovo and many places in Eastern Europe so many wars in Caucasia and middle Asia are expected. ... The collapse of communism had also caused many nationalist competitions in Eastern Europe. The West should encourage the former Eastern Europe Communist States (satellites) to build up capitalist systems and have more relations (trade etc.) with th...

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Unlike the western democratic nations with free markets, the Soviet Union operated an economy that was completely centralized. ... Europe was effectively split into two spheres of influence. Western Europe, aided by the United States, was democratic and capitalist. Eastern Europe, comprising of the USSR and the satellites, was Communist. ... The plan, also known, as the European Economic Recovery Plan, aimed to use money to stabilise post-WW2 Europe to minimize the chance of communist uprisings. ...

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In Kievan Rus, much unlike today, there was a good balance between urban and suburban cities. ... In the Kievan Rus period, most of the country's land was in what is now Western Russia, so most of their influence came from Europe. European influence caused major changes in Kievan Rus's history. ... In northern European Russia there were frozen swamplands unsuitable for agriculture, there was a lot of flat terrain making it easy for enemies and attackers to come into the country, and their forest were often raided by nomads living nearby. ...

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I personally understand these liberties more than other teenagers in this country since I am originally from Eastern Europe. ... Unlike the people of the United States, Ukrainians were not allowed to publicly express their religious beliefs. ...

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In economic reform the European bank for Reconstruction and Development ranks Belarus 25th out of the 26 transition economies in overall progress. ... Even to this day they still have a dictating system because of there inability to reform unlike other European countries. ...

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Serfdom is a labor system under which most European agricultural workers lived during the Middle Ages. ... Unlike the non-house serfs, there are detailed records on this particular group. ... After the fall of the Roman Empire in Europe the lack of a central authority gave rise to local lords exercising control. ... Feudalism was given a huge blow in Western Europe by the French Revolution and Napoleon. Russia was, however, one of the few regions of Europe not overthrown by Napoleon. ...

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Emerging Markets Index of Morgan Stanley's consists of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey. Some of the Developing countries are known as the emerging markets. Their co...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Due to these setbacks, President Yanukoych wanted to establish a stronger relationship with the European Union. ... Unlike a realism view, which fosters around military might, a liberal perspective believes that military power is not the only form of power, but also social and economic powers play a large role in the relationship between states. ...

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Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. ... He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. ... Unlike the intellectual party members, his contribution to the cause was practical, not theoretical. ...

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Introduction The collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 sparked a wave of marketization in Russia Federation and Eastern Europe during which the term ˜transitional economy' was coined. ... It neither brought the Big Bang style transition as it did in some Eastern European countries nor a smooth one like in China and Vietnam. ... Unlike the transition in Russia during which the economy turned into a disastrous state, the Chinese Communist Party managed to continuously bring people out of poverty and achieved unsurpassed double digit GDP growth. ...

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Let us begin with a simpler model of strategic geometry which existed in Europe during the Cold War. From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. However, the politics in Asia during the same period were more dynamic and nuanced than just the simple East-West divide of Europe. Here, there was none of "the sharp structural clarity of Europe," no drawing of a line, no Iron Curtain; rather, there existed a more complex web of internatio...

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The necessity of this was due to foreign invasion by a coalition of five European countries and the fear of further Royalist plots to overthrow the constitution and return power to the King. ... Unlike France, the chaos in Russia was not dealt accordingly which further implicated the society as Russian peasants seized land illegally, hence consolidating threats to the Russian Revolution. ...

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Eisenhower described Zhukov's role as "crucial to victory in Europe." ... However as the war progressed this disparity diminished, in his own words Stalin possessed a " first-class army" by 1943, "very unlike the Red Army of 1941." ...

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