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Hellenistic

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Time period from the late 4th century BCE to the 1st century CE that was characterised by Greek achievement and a blending of Persian, Egyptian, Greek, and Indian cultures due to the empire of ...

A famine in 1845 when the main crop of Ireland, potatoes, was destroyed by disease. Irish farmers grew other food items, such as wheat and oats, but Great Britain required them to export those items ...

Austro-Hungarian Empire

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Also known as Austria-Hungary, or the Hapsburg Empire, as it was ruled by the Habsburg monarchy from 1867 to 1918. Austria-Hungary extended over most of central Europe. It was composed the modern day ...

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) Niccolò Machiavelli (May 3, 1469June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher during the Renaissance. As a civil servant in ...

Amritsar Massacre

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April 3rd of 1919. British soldiers killed close to 400 unarmed Indian men, women, and children, and wounded 1,100 more. People had gathered in the centre of town to protest British occupation of ...

The Social Contract

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French philosopher Jean Jaques Rousseau's book in which he wrote that people were basically good, and that society, and its unequal distribution of wealth, were the cause of most problems. Rousseau ...

The White Man's Burden

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A poem by Rudyard Kipling written in 1899. It is also the name given to the idea that the culture of the native populations where European imperialism was occurring were inferior to western nations. ...