.... people, was used to accompany a hundred days of games. On one of the days three thousand men fought and on another day nine thousand animals were killed. The public killings of men and animals were a Roman rite believing that this was a religious sacrifice. Everyone in Rome was not entertained by these barbaric acts. The philosophers and Christians lobbied against such events. To little effect the gladiatorial games continued until the early fifth century A.D. and wild-beast killings went on until the sixth century. Evidence suggests that the contest was part of the Roman funeral process. A Christian critic named Tertullian at the end of the secon .....

.... The Japanese empire was crumbling. “…atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were on the verge of collapse.” The American “island-hopping” had drained Japan of much of its natural resources, preventing them from carrying the war on much longer. When the question of whether the bomb should be dropped arose, people knew that the bomb was not necessary for a victory. The American Government knew, that Japan was essentially defeated and that we could win the war in another six months. American military had an invasion plan for Japan ready even before the atomic bomb was tested. “The strategic plans of our armed forces fo .....

.... were experienced frequently at . What is so important about this battle? This battle was an important event in the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, a great strategist, but it was also a great failure. Now, you will be taken back through time to the battle that changed everything! was the final and decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars. It effectively ended French domination of the European continent and brought about drastic changes in the political boundaries and the power balance of Europe. Fought on June 18, 1815, near Waterloo, in what is now Belgium, the battle ranks as a great turning point in modern history. After raising France to a position of preemi .....

.... of a movement seemingly so convulsive. The Chinese superiority complex institutionalized in their tributary system was justified by any standards less advanced or efficient than those of the modern West. China developed an elaborate and effective political system resting on a remarkable cultural unity, the latter in turn being due mainly to the general acceptance of a common, although difficult, written language and a common set of ethical and social values, known as Confucianism. Traditional china had neither the knowledge nor the power that would have been necessary to cope with the superior science, technology, economic organization, and militar .....

.... they will be pleased to relieve us....". This is a very strong dictum, that in 1764, the colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation Committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "I. That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Brita .....

.... movements, and how it effected the United States government. But one point is certain. Although the success of The New Deal was for the most part limited, it did not in any way, set America on the "Rode to ruin." If anything did put America on the road to ruin at all, it was the depression itself. Roosevelt's strategy was probably better than any other plan for the United States at this current time. This is because it not only stopped unemployment rates from rising, but even saw them decrease, and this all without taking drastic measures conveying the United States government. Roosevelt's first act was to secure the banks. By forming the Emergency Banking Rel .....

.... expanded far past the damages done to the small island of Japan. It began a new age of highly destructive innovation and discoveries that shall forever alter world politics, as we know it. As World War II expanded to grow more and more destructive in Europe, the war in the Pacific earned its own merits in the eradication of lives (Thomas 76). On December 7, 1945, the Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on Pear Harbor, Hawaii, which was the principal American naval base in the Pacific (Johnson 18). The next day, the 'sleeping giant' took action and declared war on Japan. As the war raged on, and as Germany eventually surrendered, the United St .....

.... work and college every year in order to pay for each other’s tuition and allow them to both complete their education. In 1910, Eisenhower found that he could get a free college education at United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The prerequisite for obtaining such involved passing a difficult exam. While Eisenhower had no original plans to be a soldier, he still prepared well for the competitive West Point entrance exam and won an appointment to the school in 1911. The Coming of a Commander in Chief Unknown to him at the time, Eisenhower would later lead many military forces though the course of both world wars, winning decisive victorie .....