This made the Romans prone to injuries and “because they have no armor, think about running and not fighting” (Document B). Because of the loss of troops from the loss of armour, the Roman army’s numbers diminished. No soldiers were drafted since many groups were exempted from joining the army. This lessened the defences and security of Rome, and Rome became weaker. Another primary reason of Rome’s decline was a series of foreign invasions.
This is demonstrated in documents 4, 5, and 6. Henry Haskell states that “The government undertook such far-reaching responsibility in affairs that the fiber of the citizens weakened” (Document 4) This shows that the decline of the empire was due to heavy taxation that couldn’t support the government. If the taxes couldn’t sustain the government then it wouldn’t be able to control the people. According to Montanelli “The military crisis was the result of… proud old aristocracy’s… shortage of children” (Document 5) This means that many children weren’t old enough to go into the military which caused the decrease of soldiers. With the lack of soldiers, it would be easier to invade Rome, which could’ve led to the decline of the Empire.
The membership for the Tories has decreased from almost 3 million in 1951, to between 130 & 170 thousand in 2011. Liberal Democrat membership has also decreased from 145 000 in 1983 to 49 000 in 2011. This shows a great decline in those willing to take a particularly active role in being involved in politics. If there are a decreasing number of people becoming particularly interested in politics, then surely this decline may correlate with a general disinterest or lack of participation, throughout all parties. However, this data does not tell the whole story.
Secularisation (decreased value of religion in society) has had a large impact on marriage and cohabitation. Marriage is now viewed as solely being based love, and is often seen to result in divorce if this fails to continue throughout the marriage. This is a large comparison to the religious view of marriage in the past, where it was seen as a life-lasting event. Cohabitation has also become less frowned upon. These changes have resulted in a decrease of marriage; this is as a result of the declining value marriage holds, and the increased ability to get a divorce.
Writing Assignment Georgia History The Great Depression forever changed and effected Americans, the economy, and surrounding nations greatly. Millions of Americans lost their jobs and homes. The economy experienced major defaults in banking and trading. Europe and many other nations were set back from many of our inabilities to finance their needs and help with their broken economies as well. Many events as a whole led to the depression.
The Holocaust ruined numerous lives, including that of Evelyn Roman, who wrote “Aftermath”: a sorrowful poem that described her feelings about the concentration camps. Wiesel and Roman both share different and insightful outlooks about their experiences in the toughest part of their lives. They still remember a great deal of details “fifty years after the fact…” that they wish could vanish in an instant (1). Wiesel and Roman wondered every minute why they endured those experiences: no human deserves the horror they survived. Knowing that someone actually lived these stories made it almost unbearable to
April 10, 2012 The Work of Death In This Republic of Suffering, Faust views the Civil War as an instrumental role on death that dealt savagely with both sides of surviving and dying, permanently altering the American psyche. She traces the attitudes of nineteenth-century Americans toward dying and death, funerary rites, grief and mourning, Faust examines how social beliefs reacted when subjected to the enormous destruction that the American Civil War brought. There were an estimated 620,000-plus fatalities resulting from the war. This war transformed how Americans understood death as well as the obligations the living bore the dead. It seems Faust records an increase in government involvement considering the aftermath of the war.
Adam McPherson Mrs. Wheelock Advanced English Humanities 20 March 2012 Black Death’s Curse on Europe “Famines and plague, especially the Black (Bubonic) Plague thinned the population of Europe” (Wheelock). Europe was deeply affected by many diseases during the Middle Ages. As the Black Plague rushed through Europe it also affected the people’s everyday activities, the economy, and the European people’s moral from all the death, which can also be explained from Jeffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. With the Black Plague rampant all over Europe it caused many people to stop doing their everyday activities that they enjoyed. The knights son the Squire was a very active man.
Living conditions was both a physical and mental strain on the quality of life of civilians in Britain as shortly after the outbreak of war, the German navy began to use submarines, known as the U-boats. By the end of 1916, the U-boats were destroying on average 300,000 tonnes of imports a month. (Retrospective, 2008) U-boat attacks combined with the poor harvests of 1916 where placing a contributing strain on Britain’s availability to food and supplies. As needs of the nation changed, the government introduced further administrative and legislative controls. In 1918, the government introduced with the use of DORA a rationing system which ensured equal distribution of food supply to all, limiting the issue of starvation.
People kept praying, and they insisted that death could be avoided if they believed in Christianism. However, the ruling class, which consisted of the government and the church, felt quite helpless in the face of the plague as well. Not only the priests fled from their post, but also the government was paralyzed, and it led to the problems such as the chaotic administration system. In addition, the plague did not disappear at all while more and more people were killed, which made people lose their confidence in the ruling class, and the limitation of their thoughts was broken too. It assisted in laying the foundation of religious reform, thereby initiated the coming of the Renaissance.