Rome Dbq Analysis

Valley Forge is a base or camp that was located near Pennsylvania. Many soldiers suffered from harsh weather and poor food. Despite all the complications, George Washington, the leader, trained the remaining soldiers to become strong and ready to fight. Although, I would leave Valley Forge. The numbers for the estimates of people who will possibly die are soaring.

Summer Soldier of the US If I was a soldier at Valley Forge I would leave for the harsh winters. Valley Forge is a winter camp set up by General Washington for his continental Army. This camp had harsh winters and many people died of Illnesses. The estimate of illnesses written by researchers in 1974 (document a), it shows how many people die from sickness. 50% of the people die there and that is equal to a 50 50 chance of dying.

This is very obvious straight from Document 5, Cicero, upper-class Roman political leader, On Duty, first century B.C.E. when Cicero says,” All craftsmen spend their time in vulgar occupations; no workshop can have anything enlightening about it.”. Cicero shows and has no respect at all towards any inventions that have been invented by commoners, the upper-class Romans just don’t care. On the contrary the Romans care about upper-class inventions or ideas like Plutarch explaining Gaius Gracchus who was anxious in inventing or enhancing roads Document 6, Plutarch, Greek-born Roman citizen and high official, describing second-century B.C.E. Roman political leader Gaius Gracchus, first century C.E. The romans basically viewed technology as useless unless it benefits the upper-class. Another upper-classmen also shows no care for inventions by the commoners or inventions for the commoners.

Document two by Huan Guan explained that tools made by private citizens were more productive than the ones by the government because of the quality of material used in the tools. Both documents three and four are supportive of enhanced technology through the government. In document three by Huan Tan, an upper-class Han philosopher, a mythological wise emperor improved technology to enhance efficiency of the workers through the uses of animals and running water. Then in document four, from History of the Early Han Dynasty, the governor Tu Shih was the one to invent a water-powered blowing-engine for the people to use in the casting of iron agriculture. His invention was used and appreciated by the common people as it made their work easier.

Human sacrifice has been a part of many religions, so why do historians only emphasize the barbarities of human sacrifice and not why people were sacrificed? The Aztecs were one of the many groups of people to use human sacrifice. The reign of the Aztec Empire was during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in Southern Mexico. The Aztec Empire had a huge population and was very influential in its time. Although influential and powerful the reign of the Aztec Empire came to an end in the year 1519 when Hernan Cortés, the Spanish conquistador, invaded the Aztec Empire and destroyed much of their culture.

The Han dynasty had a strong belief that if technology was widely available, it would benefit the entire Chinese empire. They felt responsible to make it available for the workers and laborers that lived in China. On the other hand, Roman philosophy and administration considered laborers to be low-class, and not deserving of the help of intellectuals in government. The first group of documents were all from Han Dynasty

In times of fear and hysteria in the U.S. it is mass chaos and it only gets worse and worse. During the time of both the witch-hunt eras, whether for communist or actual witches, they prove to have many similarities between them. Both of these times were full of confusion and lying which lead to the temporary downfall of the authority at that time. Joseph McCarthy proved to be a factor in this time and add on to the chaos that was America. Arthur Miller wrote about these times in a book called The Crucible, based on the witch trial era.

Another example of the Romans showing distaste of people who created technology is in document 7. “I do not believe that tools for the crafts were invented by wise men.” This document also shows that the Romans didn’t believe technology was constructed by enlightened

In document 5, the Romans portray their negative viewpoint on labor: “Vulgar and unbecoming to a gentleman are all the jobs hired workers take on, whose labor is purchased rather than their skill” (Doc 5). Cicero, a Roman political leader, describes laborious jobs as “vulgar”. His message is straightforward; real gentlemen do not like laborious tasks and would rather rely on technology to do all the work for them. On the other side, the Hans used labor to improve their technology.

Valley Forge, The Winter Camp of Death and Illness If I were a soldier back in the 1700 and had duties in Valley Forge, I would quit and leave. Valley Forge was a winter camp that soldiers had to stay in. I have many evidences that I would quit Valley Forge. One evidence that I would quit is from Document A.

How Democratic was the Roman Republic? Though, the Romans made undemocratic decisions, they still included the people in a lot of executive decisions. The Assemblies carried out the majority of what the people wanted and what they decided. Therefore, Rome allowed their citizens to help make important decisions about government, which made them democratic.

During the nineteenth century, Manchester,England was leading in textile manufacturing due to the cotton mill and it being the first industrialized city. The industrial growth increased the population to over 300,000 by a span of 100 years, this new increase was due to working class and immigrants. In document 1, there is a vast growth in the city of Manchester over the span of 100 years. Manchester was given representation in Parliament and the middle-class men received the vote. While the growth of industry was needed in Manchester for better development of modern society, it came with many issues.

I agree that Rome was not overthrown by external enemies but was defeated by its own internal problems. The fall of Rome was mainly due to internal problems because the Romans were only fulfilling their own needs, the law were not reliable and the struggle with the right emperor led to the end of Rome. These internal problems made the empire unstable and led to external problems. For example, in document C, Marcellinus, a Roman soldier criticizes the Romans for being selfish and only worrying about themselves.

Italian Unification DBQ Unification of Italy was a long and convoluted process compared to other nations of Europe. After many of the nations of Europe have banded together to form nation states there were only a couple of countries that have not unified. When the people of Italy decided that it was time to unify their country, there were many different ideas of what a unified Italy would look like. Among the ideas of Italian unification there were three major figures that each had their own ideas on the unification of Italy.

With the help of laws that had punishments like loosing a hand or an eyeball, looking back into Babylonian society was made a lot easier. These laws were created by the king of the city-state Babylon around 1792 BCE, Hammurabi. His reasoning for enforcing the laws, known as Hammurabi’s code, was to protect the weak and those who could not help themselves (doc B). He created 282 laws, and carved them onto a stele, a pillar-like stone. The multiple steles, he created and placed around the kingdom, consisted of a carving of him with Shamash, the god of justice, a prologue, the written laws and an epilogue (doc A).