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Before there was ash there was the platypus. Before platypus rose to power it was the capital of the great Elystrian Empire. But then the disaster 1480 hit and the great empire was destroyed by tsunamis, earthquakes, and typhoons. The lands known as Platypustan was split into 3 tribes one being known as the tribe of the Platypus. These tribes would war over influence in the Platypustan region with none having complete control. During the 30 year war Kantas and Guwakiu explorers discovered the tribe of Platypus. In desperate need of extra troops the tribe was incorporated into the armies to fight in the war. After the war the leader of the tribe Pontiff Francisca was invited into to the official peace conference. She was then signed a truce with those two nations …show more content…
Platypus was able to conquer all the lands on the main island due to its new founded technologies of Platypustan in 1602 and the Platypustan kingdom was formed and Dalet the first was named pontiff. Platypustan became a agricultural and fishing economy. In 1777 citizens of the empire demanded for revision and eventual with the help of Washington Constantine the civil war of 1780 stated. This war eventually ended 3 years later and the the Republic of Platypustan was formed and Luigi Giovanni was named its first president. Platypustan would stay as a 2nd class nation until the great war due to it being invaded by Wisdow and Salicrude forces. Platypustan would fight back these invaders and establish itself as a great power. This power would be best be displayed in the second great war where Platypustan would be known as one of the members of the big 5. Platypustan would join the Hraenic Council defense force, and the SUN united nations as a permanent member. During the remainder of the 20th century Platypustan would become rivals of Salicrude and both nations would have terrible relations with each
In his account of the Punic Wars, Polybius declares “it is my contention that by far the most important part of historical writing lies in the consideration of the consequences of events, their accompanying circumstances, and above all their causes.” Polybius recognized the intricate relationship between circumstances, causes, and their consequences, and in his account of the Punic Wars he seeks to explain the reasons for Rome’s victory over Carthage. For centuries, Rome and Carthage lived at peace with one another, their spheres of influence separate enough to avoid conflict. Rome’s wealth and interests lay in farming and acquiring more land throughout Italy, while Carthage’s economy was naval based, and so keeping trade routes open in the western Mediterranean was most important to them. As late as 279 B.C., Rome and Carthage were allied against Pyrrhus of Epirus, and had signed two other treaties in earlier years. However, as the two powers increased in power and controlled progressively larger geographies, their interests were bound to conflict at some point, and that conflict came in the contest for control of Sicily. The result was a twenty-three year war, the beginning of a series of wars which would last over a century. The end of the first war, and the actions of Rome towards Carthage in the latter’s defeat, laid the foundation for the second war, and it was only after the third and final Punic War that Rome, after coming close to defeat in the second, annihilated Carthage and burned it to the ground, effectively ending the age of Carthaginian power. However, the question must be asked, what were the causes of these wars, and more specifically, which power was more responsible for the conflict? No Punic accounts exist...
After the fall of Empress Victoria, her supporters were seen as traitors and banned from Walosia. They settled on an island west of Walosia and named it Purisha. The nation of Purisha was officially founded in 945 AD and still exists today. Both Walosia and Purisha have been at each others throat since that time and the last major war between the two nations occurred from 1939 to 1943. The first major conflict was from 945 to 950 when Walosia disagreed on the founding of the nation. Walosia did the first attack 30th September 945. However, P...
The Peloponnesian War could easily be considered one of the most life changing and significant wars that occurred in classical Greece. It was fought between two empires which originally stood together against a common enemy, the Persians. However, once this common enemy was defeated, Sparta and Athens began to become great rivals vying for control of Greece. This resulted in the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars, which saw the rise and fall of the Athenian Empire. Sparta eventually rose to be the victor with the assistance of their former enemy Persia, but the era city-states would not live on for very much longer. The Peloponnesian Wars should be studied, because it details the rise and fall of one of the greatest city-states in Greek history.
Sparta's polis was the most extensive military land forces during the classical Greek. It is during the classical period that Sparta administered, dominated and even influenced the whole of Peloponnese. Also, the defeat of Athenians
The roots of the Peloponnesian war can be traced long before 431 BCE, when it officially started. It can be traced back to as early as the Persian Wars, where the Athenians had found their home burned by the hands of the Persians. That disaster left the Athenians with no home and no sanctuary. Even though that was a defeated battle amidst a victorious war, they still had reason to believe that the Persians will come back for more. Apprehensive at the thought of having their city burned yet another time, the Athenians knew they had to do something. Naturally, they chose to get help. Gathering up the neighboring city-states around them, the Athenians formed the Delian League; an alliance working directly to defend the whole of Greece from Persian attacks (Kagan 8). In the beginning, this worked out well; everybody got their say on what went on in the league, and everybody was satisfied. However, the Athenians saw that if they were to take more power, the members of the league would not be strong enough to resist. Therefore, that was exactly what they did; they took more and more power until what was the Delian League became the Athenian Empire (Kagan 8). As they grew even more powerful and wealthy, their neighbors of Sparta and the Peloponnesian League, Sparta's alliance, could not help but notice (Kagan 13). In 431 BCE, lighted b...
The causes of the Peloponnesian War proved to be too great between the tension-filled stubborn Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta. As Thucydides says in Karl Walling’s article, “Never had so many human beings been exiled, or so much human blood been shed” (4). The three phases of the war, which again, are the Archidamian war, the Sicilian Expedition and the Decelean war, show the events that followed the causes of the war, while also showing the forthcoming detrimental effects that eventually consumed both Athens and eventually Sparta effectively reshaping Greece.
The Peloponnesian War is the conflict between the pelopoponesians league led by Sparta and the Delian league, led by Athens. Much of our knowledge on the causes and events of the Peloponnesian War, depends on the Athenian Thucydides 460-400 BC, writer of the History of the Peloponessian War. He servd as an Athenian commander in Northern Greece during the early years of the war until the assembly exiled him as he lost an outpost to the enemy. During this exile, he was able to interview witnesses on both sides of the conflicted. Unlike Heredotus he concentrated on contemporary history and presented his account of the war in an annalistic framework that only occasionally diverts from chronological order. In his account, he discuses the precursors to the war, including the 30 years truce and revolutions, such as the stasis in Corcyra. When looking at wars, the primary focus is normally the fighting itself, such as what we see for World War II. However, it is important to look at the anatomy of war, meaning what effect the war has on the people who are experiencing it first hand, and the consquences that the conflict has on the rest of the world. Therefore in this essay I shall discuss, drawing directly from Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, how the civilians reacted to the war, their involvement and socio economic factors. Furthermore, the first section of my essay shall focus on the direct effect of war on the people, regarding the plague, and violence and hopelessness that was experienced. Then I shall go on to discuss more general effects of the war and how it affected the Greek world, discussing the social and economic losses that occurred such as the cost of the war in attica, the coup d’etat that occurred in gove...
...eir homes) and erosion. In a cultural and political context there was a competition between kings and nobles as to who led the civilization through war and other events that required military forces.
The Incan empire begins to form in the late thirteenth century, when the city of Cuzco is founded. The legend of the origins of the Incan people says that four brothers emerged from a cave and are considered the leaders of the people because they are the Son of the Sun, or Godlike in nature. They find the city of Cuzco and begin to gain more geographical and political power in the fifteenth century. The ruler, or Sapa Inca, that creates the overwhelming complex and enormous Incan Empire is Pachacuti. He is the absolute ruler of the empire and is said to be the Son of the Sun. He begins to attack neighboring civilizations and conquers the territory, stretching the empire from present day Ecu...
The development of an empire is a change strongly emphasized in the Archeology as a radical departure from the Hellenic tradition, and consequently a major source of conflict among the Greeks. Prior to the adven...
War has been around for the past couple of centuries now. A question that comes out of many people’s mouths’ is, “Is war the answer?” Centuries ago people may have agreed, however for nowadays maybe not so much. In the BC time era, men were trained to fight with their bodies as their weapons and to take no mercy when it comes to the enemy. If one were to dishonor their kind or betray them, the consequences would be a painful death. The following information portrayed in this essay is to discuss the causes of the Peloponnesian War, who won the war and why they conquered a nice victory.
The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) was a conflict between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta that resulted in the end of the Golden Age of Athens. The events of the war were catalogued by the ancient historian Thucydides in The History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides’ writings showed the ancient Greek belief that there is a parallel between the city-state and the character of its citizens; in order for the city-state to be successful, its citizens must be virtuous. Thucydides did not believe that the true cause of the Peloponnesian War were the immediate policies of the Athenian Empire against the city-states in the Peloponnesian League but rather the fundamental differences in the character of the two city-states
The slow disappearance of Rome as a major power and the subsequent invasions of foreign tribes led to what is called the Dark Ages. Economic issues and high military costs as a result of war with Persia in the third century plagued Rome, leading to increased taxes and a decline in the landowning class.1 With the splitting of the Roman Empire under Diocletian in 286, the eastern and western halves slowly grew apart, failed to cooperate, and fought over resources and territory.2 The strength of the eastern empire actually encouraged barbarian tribes to invade the dwindling, unfortified cities of the western empire.3 These tribes included the Ostrogoths, the Alans, the Vandals, and the Visigoths, who viciously sacked Rome in 410.4 After Rome’s fall, the period called the Dark Ages began, a time of supposed violence, i...
The emergence of the polis gave Greece a sense of unity. An organized form of government led to a greater military. Men in the military were simply cavalry units – men on horseback. After the end of the 8th century, the poleis improved their militaries, and turned cavalry units into hoplites. Hoplites are “heavily armed infantry men who wore bronze or leather helmets, breastplates, and greaves” (Spielvogel 60). The Greeks began to expand overseas and create civilization in many areas. Expansion reduced the “Poverty and land hunger created by the growing gulf between rich and poor, overpopulation, and the development of trade were all factors that led to the establishment of colonies” (Spielvogel 60).
Among them were the Etruscans, who came from the area of Asia Minor that is occupied by modern Turkey. By about 800 B.C., when Jehoahaz was on the throne of Israel and Joash on the throne of Judah, (Packer), the Etruscans had formed the first city-state in Italy. We know very little about the Etruscans, they may have come from Turkey, they were great builders and engineers, and they cleared forests, drained marshes, and built fortified cities. Etruscans made tools and weapons with copper, bronze, and iron. They gained control of the city now called Rome about the sixth century B.C. during the time of the Exile of the Jews. The Etruscan kings were driven out of Rome by the unified Latin tribes, who established the roman Republic around 510 B.C.