link to empire and imperialism in the US. The debate of the imperial status of the United States often centres around its vast economic power. The US has dominated the global economy since 1945, through it is not as present as it was back then, it is still very much the main engine of global growth. In this, we will focus on the case of globalisation. Whilst it has not always historically been the case that all empires were ‘empire of trade’, a comparison between the present economic system and that…
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uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.! • Capitalism: an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.! • Communism: a system of social organisation in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated…
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WHAP Review Semester B More Global Interactions, c. 1450 CE to c. 1750 CE 8.01 The Chinese Empire During this time, China had two major empires, the Ming from (1368 to 1644) and the Qing from (1644 – 1911) The Ming achieved scientific and cultural success, particularly in the fields of porcelain and literature, but fell to rebellion The Qing also had success in its beginning, but became stagnant as the West move forward 8.02 Rise of the Ottomans This dynasty began in the 1200s and…
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Flourished 400-1000AD First Major kingdoms Developed the ideas that the kings associated with the sun and they wanted their own land First major Andean Empire Raised-Field Agriculture Imperial colonization and Evangelization Built things out of rock therefore it lasts and tells us about how they lived and what they did 2. Aztec Empire (Pre-Columbian) classic maya and teotihuacan were there a 1000years before texcoco Aztecs and tlalcopán Founding of Tenochtitlán 1200: Mexica arrive in…
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Humanities Baroque 17th Century (1600’s) Art Characteristics Flamboyant nature Dramatic nature Strong colors Scale is large Religious nature Lavish Louis XIV Chiaroscuro (huge contrast between light and dark) Artists &Architects and their Art& Architecture (Look up the art/architecture on mypisd.net) Caravaggio The Calling of Saint Matthew The Cardsharps Bernini St. Theresa in Ecstasy St. Peter’s Colonnade Gentileschi Judith and Holofernes Valazquez Las Meninas El…
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Chapter 4 Western Asia The city of Babylon had gained political and cultural ascendancy over the southern plain under the dynasty of Hammurabi. Hittites A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, they deployed the fearsome new technology of horse-drawn war chariots. The Hittites also first developed a technique for making tools and weapons of iron. Heating…
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Identity Explain the conventional account of the development of the modern state system as founded by the Peace of Westphalia. 1) Peace of Westphalia in 1648 – to end 30 year war between conflict of power between churches & kings over sovereign rule 2) Religious sovereignty OUT, state sovereignty IN 3) 3 key principles: i) State sovereignty (i.e state>church) ii) Self determination (i.e state is highest authority, can make…
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steadfastly adhere to realist precepts, they will have to navigate “the unchartered seas of the post-Cold War disorder with a Cold War cartography, and blind devotion to realism could compromise their ability to prescribe paths to a more orderly and just system.” (Kegley 1993:141). This paper will demonstrate that…
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and political science. Therefore, Geography is interdisciplinary. Circumference of Geography Three Central Questions: Where is it? Why is it there? Why does it matter? Geographers study: Locations Spatial Relationships Connection between environment and people A Childhood Landscape Map: Cognitive Space Concept of Space in geography Definition: Space is the extent of an area, usually expressed in terms of the earth’s surface. the term “spatial” and “spatial relationships” are…
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Record of Egypt Volume I, ‘…The Hyksos domination provided the Egyptians with the incentive...towards world expansion and so laid the foundations, and to a great extent, determined the character of the New Kingdom, or, as it is often called, the Empire.’ In the documentary, The Warrior Pharaoh, it states how to ‘ensure that foreigners would never rule his [Ahmose] country again, he pushed Egypt’s…
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