No one knows when war first started but experts believe it existed long before civilizations rose and fell. The cavemen used to fight one another with rocks, sticks and weapons made of animal bones. Ancient civilizations preferred the act of warfare by making weapons out of metals like bronze and iron. Ancient Rome, Greece, Persia, Egypt and Sumer prospered through conquests achieved through warfare
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Superpower rivalry complicated the efforts of new African nations to achieve peace and stability. As these nations sought financial and technical assistance from both the Soviet Union and the United States, they often found themselves caught up in the Cold War. Angola. When civil war broke out in Angola after independence in 1975, […]
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The Central African Nations of CAR(Central African Republic), DRC(The Democratic Republic of Congo) and SSD (South Sudan) are Countries that have been embroiled in conflict for decades all because of the presence of natural resources, These Countries are rich in Gold, Diamonds, Timber, Oil, Gems, Metals Such as Cobalt, Iron, tin, copper, Zinc, Aluminum and
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Wheat is now a staple food in many cultures around the world. but this wasn’t always the case. wheat and many other grains such as barley, rice, sorghum and millet were domesticated a few thousand years ago, it is the large scale growing of wheat that allowed populations to grow large and concentrate in
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Russia was torn apart by revolutionary disturbances throughout the 1800s, it faced continuing problems in the early 1900s. Russians had long been denied democratic rights and civil liberties, but the revolution of 1905 had brought about no real changes. The elected legislative body, the Duma, had little power. The czar, Nicholas I, did not trust
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Germany’s attack on France was launched across neutral Belgium. By September 1914, German troops had reached the Marne River near Paris. However, the French and British armies managed to hold the line, and Paris was saved. France’s success in the Battle of the Marne changed the entire nature of the war. Germany’s hope of swift
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Nationalists in Serbia, whose independence from the Ottoman Empire had been recognized by the Congress of Berlin in 1878, hoped to make their country the center of a large Slavic state. The Serbian nationalists especially wanted the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina because Serbia was landlocked and these two provinces would provide an outlet on
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In 1898 the United States became even more deeply involved in Latin American affairs. Its involvement grew out of disputes with Spain. The main cause of tension between Spain and the United States was Cuba, a Spanish colony in the Caribbean. For many years, Cubans had been unhappy under Spanish rule. Nationalists, such as the
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Early on the morning of September 1, 939, German tanks, troop carriers, and dive-bombers poured over the Polish border. The Polish army, outnumbered perhaps two to one, fought valiantly, but it was no match for the overwhelming surprise attack. In just a few weeks, Poland was utterly defeated by Hitler’s blitzkrieg. World War II had
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In 1955 Nasser had announced the signing of an arms agreement between Egypt and Czechoslovakia (acting for the Soviet Union). Alarmed by the possibility of an alliance between Egypt and the Eastern bloc, the United States and Britain offered to help fund the most ambitious of Nasser’s development projects for Egypt, the construction of a
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Perhaps the most traumatic transition to independence occurred in the Belgian Congo. (The Belgian Congo later became Zaire, which was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997.) Belgium, which opposed independence because of the colony’s great wealth in timber and mineral resources, provided few opportunities for Africans to develop their skills in government.
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