Europe Essay Examples

Louis XIV, born in 1638 to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, possessed the qualities of a great king. At just four years and eight months old, he became the third king of the Bourbon dynasty. As an absolute monarch, Louis XIV effectively rebuilt France’s political, social, economic, and cultural standing. His kingdom consisted of […]

The Ottoman Empire, or Turks, were the longest-lasting remnents of the Mongol Empire; the Spanish Empire re-asserted itself after the Muslim Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula and became a world power through the Age of Exploration. From 1450 to 1800, both the Ottoman and Spanish Empires experienced political expanision in the process of empire building, […]

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the Island of Corsica in 1769. It is for these two facts among many other coincidences during his life that so many people admired him. His admirers were both in France and abroad however, both had different reasons.I shall be assessing the various skills and achievements of Napoleon as both […]

CFSP: Northern and Eastern Dimension of the European Union Complexity of European Integration Paper, written by Emil Dimitrov Immatriculation Number 44999. I. Introduction The purpose of this written paper is to explore the relevance and complexity of studying European Integration, using secondary data research methods to support the thesis. European Integration is the result of […]

Both the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide are recognized as major historical tragedies. The Holocaust entailed the organized extermination of millions of Jews and other minority groups during World War II, while the Rwandan Genocide involved the mass killing of 800,000 civilians in Rwanda. Media and events employ various approaches to raise awareness about global […]

The prices have gone really high ,so the poor got frustrated and grain prices were a lot higher which the people needed for a living. Soon, in 1815, Parlaiment passed a corn law to maintain high prices for demestice produced grain through import from foreign grain. The aristocrats had a lot of avantage during Metternich;s […]

Levski had two younger brothers, Hristo and Petar, and an older sister, Yana; another sister, Maria, died during childhood. Entrance to Levski’s native house in Karlovo. Built in the 18th century and reconstructed in 1933, it has been a museum since 1937. Fellow revolutionary Panayot Hitov later described the adult Levski as being of medium […]

The fall of the Western Roman Empire was imminent after Orestes expelled the Rome emperor in August 475. Orestes occupied the vacant office for a period of two months. During that period of leadership, he was able to raise his son, Romulus, to the throne. As Romulus had not attained the majority age so that […]

Louis Philippe aimed to create a liberal country by avoiding extreme policies, such as press censorship, that had been imposed by Charles X in France. He upheld the principles of the 1789 revolution, demonstrating his liberalism. However, despite ruling with justice, it was the people of France who ultimately caused his downfall. This was due […]

Introduction It can be refferd to as a period whereby European powers colonised, invaded, occupied and annexed African territories in a very rapid and unprecedented manner, even though there was little interest in Africa up to the 1870’s. In fact, up to 1880 Europeans ruled merely 10% of the African continent. Yet within 30 years, […]

June 2010 (3) Assess the impact of the Continental System on Europe after 1806. Timed practise essay CPE The Continental System, introduced by Napoleon via his Berlin, 1806, Milan, 1807 and Fontainebleau, 1810, Decrees; aimed at usurping Britain’s economic dominance and replacing her with France, on the whole had a detrimental effect upon the social, […]

The Indo-European language family includes about 150 languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia. This hypothesis was first proposed by Sir William Jones, who noticed similarities between four of the oldest languages known in his time, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit and […]

History teachers often use the acronym MANIA to describe the turbulent circumstances preceding the First World War. Each letter represents a distinct aspect that combined to create an unstable environment. This atmosphere allowed a minor incident to escalate into what became known as “the war to end all wars” or The Great War. The acronym […]

From the late medieval era to the enlightenment a series of plagues devastated European society, economy, and social/political structure. In the Middle Ages, the Black Plague (or Death) was a pandemic that killed nearly 2/3 of the population in Europe, and lead to the downfall of the feudal system. The groups that benefited the most […]

Who discovered America? When most people think about this, the first thing that comes to mind is Christopher Columbus. When Columbus returned from the Antilles in 1493, he was not the first European to have stepped foot on the New World. What if I were to say that the Vikings were the ones who actually […]

The Micmac First Nation called it Chebucto. Rudyard Kipling dubbed it “Warden of the Honour of the North”. In 1993 Harper’s Bazaar described it as “the very anatomy of a hip city”, and in 1917 over 2,000 people called it a final resting place. This is Halifax, Nova Scotia the Mi’kmaq ranged over most of […]

In this project I am going to explain, with examples, whether the Germans thought the Weimar Republic was corrupt or creative. My first source is a picture. The artist is George Grosz. The picture is entitled ‘Grey day.’ Already, from the title I can tell that the painting isn’t going to be very bright and […]

Julius Nyerere was born in 1922 in Butiama, Taganyika, where the population was living in conditions of poverty and tension between the tribes such as the Masai, the Sukuma, the Bantu, the Nyamwezi and the Chagga. Following the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885, Tanganyika was awarded to Germany. The Germans brutalized the population and created division. […]

Introduction Topic During post World War I Germany, the Weimar Republic was established as bourgeois capitalistic democracy. However, the period was plagued with income inequality, corruption, and authoritarianism. At the start of this period, the German Revolution spread around the country. In Berlin, the Spartacus League, founded as a communist alternative to the Socialist Democrats […]

The Berlin Blockade and Airlift began on the 23rd of June 1948 and ended on the 12th of May 1949. It was the first major conflict to occur during the Cold War between USA and the USSR. During this conflict Western Berlin who was under the control of the Western Allies was blocked off from […]

Twenty-three years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. After World War II, Germany was divided into four zones controlled by military forces from France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. The regions under French, British and American supervision united to form the Federal Republic of Germany on May […]

“Ich bin ein Berliner,” or “I am a Berliner” is the unforgettable speech that was delivered by John F. Kennedy in front of hundreds of Berliners on the balcony of the Schoeneberg Rathaus (city hall) in West Berlin on June 26, 1963. It is considered one of the best rhetorical speeches ever given. My aim […]