Two Questions

1. Compare and contrast the governments of European countries before and after the French Revolution. 2. How did the Enlightenment affect the political borders and governments in Europe?

Adam Smith Questions

1. The “invisible hand” is the interest of entrepreneurs and business men in societies.  This self interest drives people to make money, and the decisions made by the “invisible hand” benefits mainly only the person holding the interest, but sometimes it also benefits society.  This invisible hand makes a person “neither intend to promote public […]

Factors of Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution had many causes, some of which were intertwined.  According to Felipe Armesto, the two main causes were a population boom and an increase in the production of food.  According to Malthus, “population normally increases faster than food resources” (776).  However, in this instance, the population boom led to the increase in food […]

French Revolution Post

The book Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, by Lynn Hunt,  outlines the causes and factors that led up to the French Revoluion while also addressing political ideologies during the actual Revolution and before the Revolution.  Hunt talks of how the “politics…customs,morals, and religion [were] the root[s] of social life” (1).  This book not […]

Revised Research Question

How did large maroon states  in North America and South America deal with fellow runaways after making truces with European powers?  Did they send the runaways back, or did they let them stay, thereby going against these agreements? I enlarged the question to encompass other maroon states, and not just that of Captain Cudjoe.  I […]

Two Potential Research Questions

1. During the middle passage, how did slaves from rival tribes or villages act with each other? It would be interesting to know whether or not Africans still harbored malicious thoughts toward other Africans in the middle passage, since all of the Africans went through such a hard time.  Did rival Africans put aside their […]

Animals

Alfred Crosby attempts to answer the question of how Europeans were able to takeover the New World, and what were the effects of this takeover?  This question is significant since the effects of the Europeans have carried on into present day life.  Much of the plants and animals seen now are not indigenous to North […]

Actual Wiki Draft

The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty also known as the Treaty of Riga, was signed on 11 August 1920 by representatives of the Republic of Latvia and Soviet Russia. It officially ended the Latvian War of Independence, which was fought against both Germany and Russia.  The Treaty covered reparations to be payed with Latvia, along with both diplomatic and economic relations established between […]

Rough Drafts

The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty also known as the Treaty of Riga, was signed on 11 August 1920 by representatives of the Republic of Latvia and Soviet Russia. It officially ended the Latvian War of Independence. In article II of the treaty, the Soviet Russia recognized the independence of Latvia as inviolable “for all future time”.[1] It was broken when the […]

Wikipedia Works Cited

Works Cited Embassy of Latvia (American). N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Feb. 2010. <http://www.latvia-usa.org/‌index.html&gt;. Kohn, George Childs. “Treaty of Riga (1920).” Dictionary of Historic Documents. Revised ed. Modern World History Online. Web. 27 Jan. 2010. <http://www.fofweb.com/‌NuHistory/‌default.asp?ItemID=WE53&NewItemID=True >. Laserson, Max. “The Recognition of Latvia.” The American Journal of International Law 37.2 (1943): 233-247. JSTOR. Web. 1 Feb. […]