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was the largest empire and collapsed. It collapsed because Germanic groups attacked Rome, the military weakened, the size of the country, production of food, and taxes became to high for citizens. Germanic barbaric groups called Visigoth, Huns, and Slavs caused The Roman Empire. The Germanic groups invaded the western side of Rome. The Roman empire had finally collapsed 476

Russia as a state official adopted Christianity in 998. It was occasioned by the baptism of the Kievan Prince Vladimir and his subjects. The baptism of Vladimir started the mission of Christianity in Russia that was supported by the state. Although the Christian church was still united at the time of Vladimir’s conversion, he was faced with a complex decision of choosing between the Eastern and Western forms of Christianity because the relationship between Greek (Byzantium) and Latin (Rome) halves

Nationalism: Might of Unity and Disunity Nationalism drives peoples of similar heritages and dreams to take great pride in their own ethnic group or country. It brings new nations together and destroys old one as a powerful and overwhelming force of both unity and disunity. Nationalism especially had an effect on Italian unification, bringing the people to unite under three key leaders; Mazzini, Cavour, and Garibaldi. While nationalism certainly brought Italians together, it spread far past the

The Crusades The Crusades were some of the most well known religious wars in history. These wars were mission driven and very cruel. Many people perished in this fight to regain their land. The Crusades changed Europe for the better. It helped the economy and spread cultures. Many people were involved in the Crusades. There were a few reasons why the Crusades occurred. There were many Crusades that occurred and they lasted for many years. The main reason the Crusades began is because Christians

to Hitler's philosophy the people of Germany called Aryans, were superior to all other races and had the right to rule over them. Hitler and the other Nazis claimed that other races, such as the Slavs and the Poles, were inferior species fit only to serve Aryan man. The Jews were even lower than the Slavs. Hitler believed that Aryans were the builders of civilization while Jews were parasites fit only for extermination. Hitler had planned all of this strategically so that he could eliminate the Jews

There are many questions as to why the Nazis decided to do what they did to the Jews, gays, and ill during World War II and Holocaust. Nazis after the Holocaust had been interviewed by psychologists, such as Leon Goldensohn and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, to see and try to better understand the reasons behind Fascism and why these acts were performed. Leon Goldensohn was an American psychiatrist and also one of the prison psychiatrists at Nuremberg that helped perform the interviews on prisoners

American and the Great War World War I was the first big war of the twentieth century, a defining event in world history. There were many causes that led to the war, the murdering of Frank Ferdinand was a quick cause of the war. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Militarism played a huge role overtime. Nationalism led to competition between European nations, over who had the largest military or industrial development. Nationalism promoted arrogance, that was only encouraged by the media. Europe believed

Before Genghis Khan died in 1127, he assigned his son, Ogedei Khan as his successor and divided his empire into khanates among his sons and grandsons. His initial act was the division of the Empire into four khanates, as many as his sons from his first wife Bortie were (Jochi, Chagatai, Ogedei and Tolui). His eldest son Joshi though, died six months before him and the lands occupied by the Mongols, which included southern Russia and Kazakhstan, were given to Jochi's eldest sons: Orda, who became

Jack London's The Iron Heel (1907) has been called "a small folk Bible of scientific socialism." Its historical relevance has been found to lie mostly in the introduction it provides to revolutionary thought and in its scientific predictions, rather than in its literary form. Even Trotsky, a not unsubtle literary critic, pointed out the exactness of London's predictions and defined the form of the fiction as nothing but a frame for its social analyses. Form would appear to be a kind of irrelevant

Student Professor Course Date Fascism is a type of extremist, right-wing, totalitarian and nationalist ideology which first emerged during the beginning of the 20th century in Europe. The growth of fascism in Europe after the end of the First World War was caused by a combination of the socio-economic and political conditions which enabled Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler to come to power over the period prior to the Second World War. Indeed, Blinkhorn comments that "European fascism is, and always