European History question please please help?
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First of all, take a look at the wikipedia link below. It really does have a lot of information concerning the Philips and the War of Succession and why it was important to Spain. Essentially, it was a territorial war. The French Bourbons and the Austrian Hapsburgs both had claim to the Spanish throne, and they both wanted it. The territorial part comes in because the Spanish people didnot want to be governed by either France or Austria. They wanted a Spanish ruler. If they were governed by France or Austria, they would be come provincial territory of whichever country ruled. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/war_of_span...
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Two Economists Look at Europe's Economic Slowdown\nEconomic growth and labor productivity have been slowing in Europe as workers take more leisure time. Two experts look at why.\n\nBy Leslie Evans\n\n\n\nFor thirty years Western Europe has consistently turned out a Gross Domestic Product 70% that of the United States. Why hasn't Europe caught up? And curiously, European hourly productivity is much higher than GDP figures would imply, at 90% or better of that of American workers. Why the gap, and why did labor productivity, Europe's best indicator, begin to slide after 1995? Two economists, one from Europe and one from the United States, probed the persistent thirty-year differences between living and earning patterns in Western Europe and the United States at a November 4 UCLA forum.\n\nGianni Toniolo of the University of Rome, who holds a joint appointment at Duke University, was joined by Barry Eichengreen of the University of California at Berkeley in the History Conference Room of UCLA's Bunche Hall for a discussion on "Europe in the Age of Globalization." The meeting was sponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies and chaired by the center's director, historian Ivan Berend. Both speakers compared the United States to the EU-15, the original 15 Western European members of the European Union before the accession of 10 East and Central European states to the EU last May.\n\nGianni Toniolo: Europeans Place a Higher Value on Leisure\nGianni Toniolo began by lamenting the growing rift between America under the Bush presidency and the European Union. "The Atlantic has never been as wide as it is now, at least in my lifetime, which is postwar. And I am deeply concerned about that. I am deeply concerned about the cultural, political misunderstandings, the lack of understanding that seems to appear on the two sides of the Atlantic."\n\nA History of Economic Convergence -- Followed by Economic Divergences\nBack in 1820, Toniolo said, Western Europe and the United States had about the same per capita GDP. "By 1870 the Americans were ahead of Europe and the gap in GDP per capita continued to grow all the way until 1950." In 1870 Europe produced 82% of the U.S. per capita GDP. After the ravages of two world wars this fell to only 50% in 1950. But in the rebuilding and modernization of European industrial plant from the 1950s onward Europe took large strides toward closing the gap. By 1970 Western European per capita GDP reached 70% of the U.S. and has pretty much frozen there.\n\nBut this did not mean that European industry was as far behind as those numbers suggested, both economists agreed. Productivity, or output per hour worked, has come much closer to U.S. rates. Barry Eichengreen in his presentation reported that the EU-15 average GDP per hour worked in 2000 was 90.7% of the United States and four of the fifteen, Belgium, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, have higher labor productivity than the U.S.\n\nGianni Toniolo summarized some of the institutional arguments used by various economists to explain why the U.S. has remained ahead. These include a history of cheap land but expensive labor, which encouraged investment in labor-saving machinery; a more technically oriented educational system; and the unified American market compared to the multiple smaller states of Europe. Most of these U.S. advantages were strongly reduced after World War II, by the end of the American frontier, moves toward European economic unification, and common advances in technology.\n\nEuropeans Begin to Work Fewer Hours\n"The story, however, becomes interesting when we look at why, in spite of being so productive or equally productive as America we poor Europeans are 30% poorer that you Americans," he said. "And the answer is very simple. From the mid-seventies onward Europeans began to work fewer and fewer hours over the life cycle. There was less participation in the
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YOU NEED TO DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK, but I'll do you a small favor....\n\nIn 1750, the world was known to be round.  In 1450, the world was widely and officially considered flat.\n\nNow, think of what historical incident brought about this change of thought.  You got it?  Good - now think about the fortunes of various peoples and nations WORLDWIDE that accrued from the historical incident you figured out.\n\nYou now have the makings of a brainstorm that will lead you to a theme, an outline, and an essay.
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Quickly:\nEach are headed out by a leader. Japan has an emperor and Europe has a king. Neither controlled a huge amount of power for small regions and so that power was handed down to others.\n\nIn Japan there was the shoguns and in Europe they had their lords. Working under the lords were knights and the Japanese version of a knight is the samurai.\n\nAt the bottom were peasants for both Europe and Japan, though merchants were even below that in Japanese feudal society.
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Try this website for a detailed map of Europe:\n\nhttp://www.europe-map.org/
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Try this link:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Sciences#History
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Titles of European hereditary rulers\n\nUntil the second half of the 20th century emperors, kings, grand dukes, princes and other hereditary rulers played an important role in Europe. The history of their titles and styles reflects the European political history.\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/eurprin/
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Africa was colonized by many European countries--Britan, France, etc. They got their independence after World War II when countries had economy problems, weak militaries, and overseas possessions were unpopular especially if it mean more work.
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I've done it. Read the book. That is the most important thing. Pay attention in class, and throw yourself into it. European history has a lot more to it than American (obviously) and it can get confusing very quickly. I had a good time in the class, and really enjoyed it though. You learn a ton.
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If you want to read about how Asia was ruled under European Imperialism (the period of when most of Asia was under the control through colonization by Europeans) visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism_in_Asia and you will get most if not all of your answers.\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Depends on your point of view\n\n1)  It started (People opposed to Charlemagne didn't like this)\n2)  It ended (Charlemagne didn't like this part)
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http://www.courrierinternational.com/dessins/galeriedessin.asp?dos_id=2295&provenance=europe
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Hi there;\n\nI have to hand it to you! You are showing a lot of gumption for taking on an assignment covering an entire continent of nations like that.\nI can list for you some very fine links (safe links) which can assist you in your endeavors. Good luck I hope you do well. :)
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The Congress of Vienna met because of Napoleon...there was a long period of peace within Europe after that.  European countries were able to concentrate on internal affairs rather than the international ones, which would cause the revolutions in Greece/Germany or reforms in England.
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It was the Elizabethan Age, the reign of Elizabeth I.  The explorations by the English began then, and the difficulties with Spain and the defeat of its Armada occured then.  There was a good deal of artistic fourishing, and also an increase in commerce and trade, and the usual political/religious bickering.  That was as far as England goes, but all of Europe was similarly in more or less the same phase of opening up to new worlds and new combinations of power and politics and economic growth.
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Hope this site can help you:\n\nhttp://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lect25.htm
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If you can give more clues it might be helpful - any particular historical event or time period??  Right now I am drawing a blank on all of them - I will check back to see if you can add any info.