In 1600, a company that rose to account for half of the worlds trade established. It was made to challenge the Dutch-Portuguese spice trade, and Queen Elizabeth granted rights to bring in goods from India. James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill worked for the company and eventually became head of the office at …
In the town Pompeii there where beautiful houses everywhere. It was a flourishing resort for Rome’s disguised citizens, until the Mount Vesuvius erupted for a second time after sixteen years. This time far worst than the first time. It happened in 79 A.D., when the eruption sent out a plume of ashes, along with pumice …
The Berlin Wall was built because of the refugee problem East Germany was suffering from. West Germany had a good economy and capitalist state, whilst the communist East had very poor standards of living. Nobody wanted to live in the East, so people started crossing to the West. By 1958, three million East Germans crossed …
After the second world war, the cold war began. During world war two, the Soviet Union and U.S.A. were allies against Hitler, but when the war ended, there was no longer a common enemy. There were large differences between the Soviet Union’s communist political system and the U.S.A’s capitalist one, this made co-operation between the …
During the 1800s and 1900s, Britain ruled India. It was perhaps the most important territory in the British Empire, since it was different from other parts of the Empire making it run in different ways from other areas of the Empire. Britain could not take over, since there were states of government which were as …
In 1913, Franz Josef sent Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Sarajevo, Bosnia, to observe military manoeuvres. Ferdinand went with his wife, Sophie the Duchess of Herenberg. His objective in Serbia made the members of the Black Hand-a secret military society formed by conspirators-think that Austria thought Serbia was an inferior nation. This pushed the conspirators-seven …
Tensions were high in France during the year of 1792, three years into the French Revolution. The king of Austria (Francis I) was alarmed when he knew about the activity in France. What alarmed him the most was that his sister-Marie Antoinette-was fleeing the country with here husband-King Louis XVI. France declared war with Austria …
The classes of the industrial revolution were separated under four titles: the upper class, middle class, working class, and under class. The Upper Class. The people born in the upper class are those who were children of high powers. A lazy, rich king would more likely be in the upper class rather than a hard …
Tantalus was one of the mortal sons of Zeus, favored more by other Gods than Zeus himself. They gave him many advantages that only immortals were aloud to endure. They let him dine with them and let him drink ambrosia with them. After condescending to dine with him in his banquet in his palace, he …
According to Greek mythology, back in the Odyssey, all monstrous creatures were banned from Earth; except for the cyclopes. As the first three cyclopes’ stuck around, Zeus became proud to call them his favorites. When more cyclopes came around, Zeus gave them land with plenty of food. They lived happy, but any visitors would find …