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Azerbaijan – Mongolia – Kyrgyzstan – Kazakhstan – Uzbekistan
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Azerbaijan – Mongolia – Kyrgyzstan – Kazakhstan – Uzbekistan
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Although Motown music was taking root and popular in the 60s, other music genre also flourished….
Music and fashion are a great way to witness and measure the changes of any society . . . Iconic songs help define different eras.
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Reflect on the significance of this number when you run across it in your readings…
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Today, around 95% of Armenians are Christian, and the country’s pious history can be traced back through some of its ancient sites and monuments. (Credit: Rodolfo Contreras) Continue reading → Post ID 29403
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the south-western Soviet Union.
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See the previous fight: AP 24.911 WWI – If This War Were A Bar fight
If World War 2 Was a Bar Fight It Would Have Looked Something Like This
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The end of the Civil War allows Mankind to go into overdrive. This is an age of innovation, transformation and mass production. People believe that “Anything, everything, is possible.” Japan goes from feudal society to industrial superpower within 50 years. But progress has its dark side. The demand for rubber devastates Africa. And the desire to build bigger, faster, better leads to a titanic disaster.
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Social Darwinism –
the application of Darwinism to the study of human society, specifically a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority.
Social Darwinism was an attempt to justify the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots of society.
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suf·fra·gette – noun
a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest.
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The 1876 Constitution: Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the Grand Vizier, and the millets grant freedom to an idealized female figure representing Turkey, whose chains are being smashed. The flying angel displays a banner with the motto of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity in Turkish (Arabic script) and in Greek. The scene takes place in a generic Bosphorus scenery.
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Karl Marx (1818-1883), philosopher and German politician.
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The first machine to transform fossil fuel into mechanical energy was the steam engine, a device that set the Industrial Revolution apart from all previous periods of growth and innovation.
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The thirst for freedom, equality and political liberty drives the Age of Revolutions. Mechanization of cloth and harnessing of coal fuels the Industrial Revolution. Cholera and other diseases devastate many nations, but mankind responds by developing clean water systems and new medical procedures. British control of the opium trade in China proves just how connected the world has become. Civil War rages in the United States. The struggle for equal rights and citizenship continues in places throughout the globe.
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What is “modernity”?
Take Note: Our species (Homo sapien sapien) has been around for approximately 250,000 years. What were the major break throughs that led us to the year 2021?
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