For the Black Plague
It started in China, and spread around the world through the Silk Roads and with the help of the Mongols . It hit the Middle East, you got that down, then spread through Europe through the ports of Italy, I'm pretty sure it was Sicily. Then it just spread all through out Europe of bad hygiene, no info about infections back then etc.
Also fun fact for all you Russian lovers:
The only people to successfully invade Russia during the winter were the Mongols!
Very Western.
Of all the pictures you could have taken you chose one where he's just standing around. These here are the real badass Napoleon pictures, riding horses and such:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/David-Napoleon.png[/img]
[img]http://records.viu.ca/~mcneil/jpg/napoleon.jpg[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Brodowski_Napoleon_Elbe.jpg[/img]
This is so incredibly limited.
Even major major [B]MAJOR[/B] things of the past millennium like the Reformation, the Age of Exploration, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Crusades, the Hundred Years' War, the blah blah blah aren't in here.
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In fact, this is so incredibly horribly limited.
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Everything is way too oversimplified.
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I'll fucking cuntpaste an essay I wrote in an hour and a half about the causes of WWII.
Much more comprehensive than this.
[quote]There were many long-term and short-term causes of World War II. While it is easy to see the short-term causes, it is important not to discount the long-term causes which set Europe on the road to war. One of the main short-term causes was the policy of appeasement put forward by the Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain. Another short-term cause was the failure of the League of Nations to curb the ambitious expansion of Mussolini’s fascist Italy and Hitler’s Nazi Germany. The long-term causes of World War II included the Treaty of Versailles and the Russian Revolution, among others.
After his rise to power in Italy, Benito Mussolini showed his hunger for power and territory when he invaded Ethiopia in 1935 in order to grow his African empire. Although some were appalled, the League of Nations didn’t take action [doc. 2], even though Italy and Ethiopia were both members and Italy was known to have used chemical weaponry. This event showed the weakness of the League of Nations and led Hitler to realize that he could advance his ambitious foreign policy without fear of reprisal from the European powers.
The concept of Lebensraum (living space), which arose before the First World War, stated that all Germanic peoples needed more space to colonize and fill. Lebensraum was one of the goals of the Germans during World War I, but it was not achieved. Hitler’s plan for fulfillment of Lebensraum was to expand into Eastern Europe, most notably Poland, and replace the current inhabitants with ethnic Germans. This concept of Lebensraum was an extension of the Grossdeutschland movement, which aimed to unify all Germanic peoples under one state, another one of Hitler’s goals [doc. 1]. Before World War II, Germany made many moves towards achieving this goal, beginning with the occupation of the Sudetenland and culminating with the 1938 annexation of Austria, known as the Anschluss. The invasion of Poland was thus only another event in a chain of events that had been occurring for years. The Holocaust in Poland and the formation of ghettoes can also be viewed as part of Hitler’s Lebensraum goals.
When Germany remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936, it clearly violated the Treaty of Versailles [doc. 3]. However, due to the weakness of the League of Nations, no actions of substance were initiated against Germany. Germany had withdrawn from the League in 1933, making it that much more difficult for the League to respond. After the German annexation of Austria in early 1938, Hitler set his sights on Czechoslovakia. At the Munich Conference, attended by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and French Prime Minister Daladier, Czechoslovakia was partitioned and divided among its neighbors. Germany won control of the Sudetenland, which was mainly composed of ethnic Germans. The Munich Agreement was a hastily conducted act of appeasement, hoping to curb Hitler’s ambitions and prevent war, at least for the time being [docs. 4, 5, 7]. While some hailed the Munich Agreement as an assurance against war, others protested. Winston Churchill, future Prime Minister of Britain, said in a speech to Parliament that the Munich Agreement had both undermined the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations by bypassing the latter entity [doc. 6]. Historians have looked back upon the situation and concluded that a military operation to take the Sudetenland, which may have occurred if the Munich Conference had not happened, would probably been halted by the Czechs’ military and led to a military coup in Germany by unhappy generals [doc. 7].
One of the most significant long-term causes of World War II was the Treaty of Versailles. While the Treaty blamed Germany for the war, the short-term actions of all involved contributed, and blame is shared between them. The Treaty placed heavy burdens on Germany, including the payment of reparations and loss of territory. The heavy financial burden caused by the reparations contributed to inflation and economic woes in the newly formed Weimar Republic, and while the Dawes Plan of 1924, which modified some of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, caused short-term economic recovery, resentment in Germany still simmered and economic troubles soon returned. Partially as a result of the poor German economy, the Nazi Party, which had gained prominence after the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, came to power. Another of the Treaty’s provisions which proved challenging was Germany’s loss of territory. Although Germany’s territory was chipped away at by many of the victorious Allies, one of the most painful modifications was the creation of the Polish Corridor. The Corridor was former German territory which was added to Poland to give Poland access to the Baltic Sea. It was bordered by the Free City of Danzig, a city-state formed from East Prussian territory, which became part of Poland’s economic sphere of influence. The division of Germany brought about by the creation of the Polish Corridor was thus another cause of the Nazi Party’s rise to power.
Yet another long-term cause of the Second World War was the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia. Communist and far-left elements all over Europe gained strength after the Revolution and postwar economic troubles, causing consternation among both far-rightists such as Hitler and Mussolini as well as centrists in countries such as France and Great Britain. One motivation for appeasement was the belief that German domination in Eastern Europe was better than Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. If Germany lost its influence, the Soviets would step in to replace them. Hitler preyed on the fear of communism as well, making it a centerpiece of the Nazi Party’s platform. His anti-communist attacks were amplified by the Reichstag fire of 1933, which was revealed to have been caused by a communist arsonist. The attack was exploited by Hitler as an example of how communists would sabotage Germany, and it was used as an excuse to pass a number of acts which persecuted communists and restricted civil liberties. The fire also led to the wide dissemination of anti-Soviet propaganda, foreboding the German invasion of the USSR.
While many focus on the short-term causes of World War II, there were many long-term causes as well. One of the major long-term causes was the unfair treatment of Germany in the Treaty of Versailles, which stoked the flames of resentment in Germany. Other long-term causes included the long battle for German unification, which some still wanted to continue. In the short term, the policy of appeasement did little to slow Nazi aggression, even encouraging it by failing to impose significant restrictions upon Germany. The weakness of the League of Nations also contributed to the war, as it couldn’t provide collective security without commitments from its members to act in the case of aggression.
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The OP really needs to consider adding more important material to his/her thread.
[QUOTE=Frost 31;15791855]That sounded more like the History of Europe than the history of the world, save for the part about Japan in WWII. Regardless, I already knew all this because of a little thing called school. Maybe some of you have heard of it.[/QUOTE]
Maybe because, for most of the time, the only recorded history was at Europe? Wink wink.
Anyways, its great that you already knew all this, I'm just posting it so its perhaps another perspective, and a little easier to digest than your average college textbook.
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[QUOTE=Black Cell;15791872]Include Crusades, Indian Ocean Trade, Silk Road, history of China, history of religions, beginning of civilizations, mesoamerica[/QUOTE]
Sure thing.
Sooooo, how bout that Inquisition?
-snip-
Save myself from the box.
You should write about the revolutionary war.
And also:
America's depression
How Kosova (Kosovo) gained its independence
The civil war
The cold war
Pretty much anything I can't think of at the moment. Anything that left a large impact on the world, or single country. Anything.
yeah like thornauk said write about the revolutionary war, i want to know about the tsars
Good read, keep it going.
[QUOTE=Teh Rar File;15788179]I'm pretty sure you call it pwnage when one bomb kills 70,000 +.[/QUOTE]
Winnaarrrrrr
Write about the dark ages.
Then about the crusades.
nice
Creation of the universe: God farted and suddenly all planets were made :downs:
Informative, but check your spelling!
[QUOTE=kwkws;24248863]Creation of the universe: God farted and suddenly all planets were made :downs:[/QUOTE]
He must of had a bad meal if that fart took 6 days, that's why he had to rest for a whole day.
Hooray! I'm now edumacated!
The thread is from more than an year ago. And the OP is still not finished...
Where the fuck is the rest of history till 1348.
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