... to rule each as tyrants; citizens were required to serve in the Persian army and to pay fairly steep taxes. In 500 B.C., Aristagoras, the Persian tyrant of Miletus, proposed to the Persians that they should conquer the Aegean Islands starting with Naxos. The Persians launched the expedition, unaware of the strong defense of Naxos, which was due to the active organization of its democratic system. The Persians failed and Aristagoras, fearing for his life, began a democratic rebellion in 499 B.C. He went to the Greek mainland for support but Sparta denied him aid, fearing their Helots might revolt. Athens, on th ...

... lost two cities on the French-German border and as per Wilson's thirteenth point Poland was re-formed with access to the Baltic Sea, which went right through Germany. Giving Poland Sea access split Germany into two parts, the main part of Germany, and a small portion to the North of the Danzig corridor. The Danzig corridor really inflamed Germany for many years, but they really could not do anything about the situation because they lost world war I. Another country that was angry over the Versailles Treaty was Italy. They were angry because they thought that the land that they had received as a payment for their part ...

... convicted of some criminal offense; they are places where political dissidents and members of national or minority groups are confined for reasons of state, security, exploitation, or punishment for imagined or accused crimes. With the onset of war in 1939, the need for laborers resulted in the creation of forced labor camps in which prisoners became virtual slaves. Jews were subdued to inhumane treatment, which resulted in death through illness, starvation, beatings, or execution. People imprisoned in death camps were used for the most work they could give and after that their lives were terminated, by gassi ...

... compromise political power. They were trying to figure out a way to keep the power in Congress between the slave states and the free states equal. The Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act are two great examples of the long list of compromises the two sides have tried to come to. The compromises continued but to no avail, the subject of who had the final say involving slavery was one that had to be defined clearly, and this could not be compromised. Another struggle was between the Blacks (with few white Northerners on their side) and the Southern slave owners. The Southerners claimed that they shoul ...

... to classify, and like the letter X, we are an entire generation of variables. This is partially true, only because my peers and I don't have a specific issue which brings us together. We have no war to oppose, no music calling for us to unite, nothing cohesive which binds us as a generation. We are instead like the molecules of some unknown gas: spread out, each floating in its own way, occasionally colliding, but as a whole not really traveling in any particular direction. It is my perception that the label of Generation X has come to be almost exclusively condescending. I consider myself an avid re ...

... By teaching Plato his concepts and beliefs, Socrates greatly influenced Western thought and philosophy. Socrates' thoughts were more associated with man, instead of nature and man's surroundings. He also lead discussions about man's feelings, soul, and actions. Philosophers before Socrates speculated about the natural universe, but Socrates made them realize their absence of any agreed standard of truth. In doing so, he gave philosophers a common ground to base their thoughts on. Also, he felt that man is good in nature but can produce wrong. For example, "Socrates believed that to do wrong is ...

... is placed. The United States became involved in the Balkan conflict in the end of 1998 ("Kosovo" 1). U.S. involvement in Kosovo is making matters worse for the innocent people of Kosovo. Kosovo, a small area in the center of the former Yugoslavia, is playing an important role in the Balkan conflict. In the summer of 1998, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) decided to launch a guerilla warfare attack on Serbia in attempts to liberate themselves and gain their cultural rites. The President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, is refusing to allow Kosovo to break away from Serbia without a fight. Kosovo is a site of great emo ...

... were able to command the attention away from whites, however that would all change. Joe Louis began his boxing career at the Brewster Recreation Center. In his first amateur bout, Louis was knocked down 7 times, but he rapidly improved over the years, he captured the 1934 National AAU Lightweight Crown and turned to the professional level later in that same year. Louis won his first 27 fights, 23 of them by knockout, beating people of fame like Primo Carnera and Max Baer. His first defeat was against Max Scheming at Yankee Stadium, he was knocked out in the 12th round. This was Louis greatest defeat, and the sta ...

... from overseas. This essay will show how these reason's led to the American's winning the war. The American strengths included their ability to unite, their strong leaders and their receiving aid from France. One of the main reasons the Americans won the war was because of their unification. For example we can see their unification with the Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence where they agreed upon an action which was benefiting for the country. The use of propaganda was another way to create unity for the American cause. An example of this is the book Common Sense by Tho ...

... then Dutch colonial region in South East Asian. This included West Timor but not East Timor, which wasn’t under Portuguese administration. The overthrow of the dictatorship in Portugal through the carnationrevolution (1974) followed a process of decolonisation of all Portuguese oversea provinces: The Frente Revolucionária de Timor Leste Independente (FRETILIN; Revolutionary Front for an independent East Timor) became the most important political force. It was an independence movement in the style of the 70s. Since shortly after the FRETILIN proclaimed the independence at the end of October the Indonesian mili ...