One of the causes of these failures was that the discontent that prompted the people to initiate a revolution was in most cases of a local nature meaning that revolutionaries in different states would have had very little if not no incentive to come to each other’s aid. For example the temporary revolutionary government established in Bologna actually refused the Modenese revolutionaries pleas for help. This is hardly surprising when we consider how locally orientated the aims of the revolutionaries were, for example one of the main reasons for the attempted revolution in Sicily was to attain independence from Naples to which it had being forcibly united with in 1815, this was something that people outside of Sicily would have cared very little about if at all. Because of the fact that many of the
I personally believe that Paris was most responsible for the outbreak of the Trojan war. There are several reasons why I believe that this makes him most responsible for the war. Firstly, Paris gave the apple of discord to Aphrodite. This makes him responsible as he chose the shallowest reward of the three he was offered, and chose by far the worst and most risky option of the three. This not only makes Paris responsible for the outbreak of a long, devastating and all-round unnecessary war, but also shows him to be a shallow man.
The Athenians present Melians with the option of becoming a colony to them, or to be destroyed. The reason for this ultimatum stems mainly from the fact that Melians extended their support to Spartans during the Peloponnesian War and now were a potential enemy to the Athenians. Their freedom would mean a sign of weakness of the Athenians. After a long series of arguments, Athenians finally attack the Melians and defeat them. All the Melian men are slaughtered and the women and children forced to slavery.
It embarrassed the young Kennedy administration and Kennedy was blamed for not giving it adequate support. The Cuban exile leader Jose Miro Cardona blamed the failure on the CIA and the refusal of Kennedy to authorize air cover for the invasion force, but the main reason for failure was because the exiles had been counting on a local uprising to help them. The Bay of Pigs invasion also made Castro wary of the U.S. He was convinced that the Americans would try to take over the island again. There were many reasons for the Bay of Pigs invasion.
While his reforms were beneficial for society, people as a whole did not accept his changes, thus causing him to leave the state. Solon was born in 638 BC in Athens; belonging to the Eupatrids clan he was of very high importance. Solon was an Athenian statesmen and poet before he became archon. His poems were what got him his first appearance in the field of politics. During their conflict between Megara, Athens confidence in their troops was quickly deteriorating, when Solon - doing what he did best - cleverly tricked them into action through the use of his poems.
Both Lysander and King Pausanias actions demonstrated their incapability to lead Sparta which consequently resulted in the ineffective leadership of Sparta as hegemon of Greece. Lysander was the dominant figure in Spartan politics presiding the fall of the Athenian Empire in 404 BC, and his and Sparta’s aim was a far as possible to secure Greek hegemony allowing for Spartan Imperial expansion. The ‘anomaly’ of Lysander’s dominance within Sparta’s military and political enterprises, traditionally governed by the Kingships, saw him exploit his foreign policy across the populas of the Aegean much to their discontent “The Spartans reckoned that they themselves, having defeated the Athenians, would now securely dominate the whole of Greece” (Thucydides 8.2.4). Lysander installed a brutal pro-Spartan oligarchy (known as ‘The Thirty Tyrants’) on Athens, reciprocating this system of government in other Greek states in order to suppress prevailing democracies. Installed to govern were pro-Spartan Harmosts, all supported by a garrison of troops who served under the orders of Lysander.
Mamertimes were defeated on their territory, so they appealed to Rome and to the Carthaginians. Because Rome feared that the Carthaginians were gaining too much power and threatened them (especially if they gained control of Sicily), they did not want to abandon Messana. Harris says that the two motives of the Romans were anxiety about the increasing power of Carthage, and the other was the gain they would get from it. They would not only get the booty, but also be able to expand Roman power. They aimed to get rid of the Carthaginians.
Although, trade and financial advantages were often the most prominent, yet hidden cause of conflict in the Greek World. The Sicilian Expedition overwhelmingly demonstrates that the Economy was of major importance to Athens, which directly led to a large scale conflict. Athens sailed Thousands of miles to Sicily as they misbelieved the Island was full of treasures which the local towns possessed. Also, Sicily was in a advantageous position, being close to the African and Italian coast, which would help enhance Athens’s wealth. Although it can be argued that Alcibiades initiated the invasion, Athens’s would not have led a costly campaign to Sicily just because of one man.
How important were the Venetians in the failure of the 4th crusade ? (24) The Venetians played an important part in the failure of the crusade, through the deal struck between the Christians and Venetians and the Crusader’s subsequent debts to Venice, which in turn caused much disunity amongst the Crusaders. However I believe the diversion to Constantinople, imperial politics between the Crusaders and Byzantium and ultimately the sack of Constantinople were the determining factors in its failure. Firstly Venice played an important part in the crusade’s failure because it bound the crusaders to an agreement they could not fulfil. The Treaty of Venice was struck and the Venetians wanted eighty-five thousand marks of Cologne in return for their fleet.
How far was Henry VI to blame for the conflict of 1455? The causation of the first battle of St. Albans is a complex and intricate issue, involving many factors. The king’s weaknesses and incompetence made him an innately unsuitable ruler for the times, and his failures to accumulate the majority of the attributes expected of a king, such as control of the nobles and successful military pursuits, may have contributed substantially to the battle in 1455. However, this can be disputed; given the financial state of the country, it is hardly surprising that Henry was unable to keep a firm control over the avaricious nobles, whilst also lacking a standing army. Additionally, the underlying problem of who had a greater claim to the crown, instigated when Henry IV usurped the throne from Richard II, was still a concern, and inevitably this was bound to result in a bloody battle in order to settle the disagreement.