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The 20 most important naval battles in the history?

Question by sinnombre2: The 20 most important naval battles in the history?
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battle of the delta(1178bc)>While there is no documentation for any pursuit of the defeated Sea Peoples, who fled to the Levant, Egypt was saved from the fate of total destruction.This is the first naval battle in the history.

Salamis, (480 BC)>. 371 Greek ships defeated 1,271 Persian ships in this decisive battle. Greek triremes had a crew of about 200 while their small penteconters had 50 oarsmen. With 1,642 ships altogether, it is thought possible that 200,000 sailors, soldiers and marines took part.

Cape Ecnomus, (256 BC)>. Like Salamis, Ecnomus was also a single engagement where 680 ships were fighting in a very small area. Some historians[who?] accept Roman claims that Rome had about 100,000 personnel. If this were true, which is unlikely, it would make it probable that at least 200,000 Roman and Carthaginian sailors and soldiers were involved.

Red Cliffs, (208 bc)>, the battle between Cao Cao and Sun Quan on China’s Yangtze River – the exact location is debated – during the late Han Dynasty. Cao Cao’s forces are said to have numbered 220,000–240,000 while Sun Quan’s fleet is said to have had 50,000 marines, the total claimed therefore being some 270,000 or 290,000 in all.

Actium, (31 BC)>. Battle between Mark Antony, Cleopatra and Octavian for control of the Roman world; more than 500 warships were involved

Yamen, (1279). The battle which ended the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty’s conquest of Southern Song Dynasty. It is claimed that more than 1,000 Song Dynasty warships were destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty near Yamen, Guangdong, China.

Lake Poyang, (1363)>. Claimed to be the largest battle in terms of personnel. Sailors of the Ming rebel force, said to be 200,000 strong, commanded by Zhu Yuanzhang, met a Han rebel force, claimed to be 650,000-strong, commanded by Chen Youliang, on Lake Poyang, China’s largest freshwater lake.

Lepanto, (1571). 212 Holy League galleys and galleasses against 272 or more Ottoman galleys, galliots etc (484+ total). The forces of the Holy League inflicted a crushing defeat on the Ottoman fleet. This was the last major naval battle, at least in the Western world, to be fought entirely or almost entirely between rowing vessels. Around 150,000 personnel took part in the battle. Lepanto is thought by some historians[who?] to have been the most decisive naval battle since Actium in 31 BC.The Turkish fleet lost more than 200 vessels and suffered at least 20,000 casualties.

Spanish Armada, (1588)>. In a series of engagements in the English Channel, a Spanish invasion fleet of 130 ships was driven north by English forces numbering nearly 200 ships. Rounding the British Isles into the Atlantic, the Armada was destroyed by powerful gales on its return to Spain.

the english armada (1589)>One year after the spanish armada,the queen elizabeth sent 18.000 soldiers against spain.Only 5000 came to england.Spain was the most powerful country in the sea until 1639 (battle of the downs)

Myeongnyang, (1597)>. A large Japanese assault on Admiral Yi’s remaining 13 ships. The Japanese attacked with 333, but were routed by the smaller force.

Battle of the downs(1639)>After this battle,holland was became in the first naval power in the world.

Cartagena de Indias, (1741)>. 186 British ships attacked Spanish fortifications and six warships in Cartagena de Indias (present-day Colombia), resulting in a major defeat and heavy losses for the British: 50 ships lost and 18,000 casualties. The battle is thought to be the largest military action in maritime history (in terms of tonnage) until the Battles of Normandy and Leyte Gulf surpassed it in 1944.

Battle of Chesapeake Bay (1781) – the French prevented Royal Navy from supplying Gen. Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, and 5 British ships were damaged with 336 casualties. Not a humiliating naval defeat, but the outcome was humiliating – the British army eventually surrendered because the Royal Navy failed to help them, and Britain therefore lost the war

Vyborg Bay, (1790)>. 257 Russian vs 241 Swedish sailing ships and rowing vessels (498 total) (neva.ru).

Trafalgar, (1805). A British fleet of 27 ships-of-the-line and six other vessels, commanded by Nelson, attacked and destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet of 41 ships, including 33 ships-of-the-line, ultimately capturing 21 ships of the line and destroying another. Almost certainly the largest battle, at least until the American victory at Santiago in 1898, in terms of the damage and/or casualties inflicted by gunfire alone. One of the most decisive battles in history.

Jutland, (1916)>. The largest battle in terms tonnage of ships engaged and in terms of the total tonnage of ships involved in a single action. Possibly the largest battle-line action, in terms of numbers of ships engaged. The largest surface action and the largest ship-to-ship action, in terms of t
Pearl Harbor, (1941). Six large Japanese aircraft carriers, the most powerful carrier force assembled up to that time, commanded by Chuichi Nagumo, made a surprise attack, with 353 aircraft in all, on the US Pacific Fleet’s base of Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. 2,400 US military/naval personnel and civilians were killed and 1,280 wounded. However, this event is not usually referred to as a “battle”.

Midway, (1942). The most decisive battle of the Pacific War. Midway was a crushing defeat for the Japanese navy, reversing the course of the Pacific War.

bay of pigs invasion(1961)>The cuban army defeats the american invasion,Castro holds the presidency of the Cuban goverment and U.S. through lost his first war

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World History Help! 10 Points Given?

June 20, 2012 / jessica / 3 Comments

Question by Jiooij I: World History Help! 10 Points Given?
Time Remaining:
1. What sparked the Philippine Insurrection?
(Points: 1)
The United States’ decision to keep the Philippines

Long-simmering Filipino anger at Spain

A misunderstanding between the Spanish minister and Emilio Aguinaldo

The British refusal to leave the Philippines

2. What nation acted as a buffer between French Indochina and Burma?
(Points: 1)
Thailand

New Guinea

Java

China

3. Which was not something that imperialist powers sought in Southeast Asia?
(Points: 1)
Wheat

Sugar

Tin

Timber

4. Why did Britain benefit from controlling Singapore?
(Points: 1)
It had the largest navy in Southeast Asia.

It was a convenient stopping point for ships traveling to and from China.

Its location at the mouth of the Yangtze River made it an ideal port.

Its location in the Philippines made it a convenient port for Spanish traders.

5. What is one reason that timber was in demand?
(Points: 1)
The United States banned the export of timber.

Britain had a large trade deficit with China.

The amount of sea trade had increased.

Wooden skyscrapers were becoming more common.

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Answer: Do it yourself, in the time you took to type this, you could have looked those answers up yourself

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THE BIGGEST CONUNDRUM IN HUMAN HISTORY (1 of 2)?

June 18, 2012 / jessica / 0 Comments

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THE BIGGEST CONUNDRUM IN HUMAN HISTORY

Of the Japanese Imperial Army (hereinafter JIA), a Japanese soldier who carried only one Japanese sword but was able to kill more than one hundred people although he loaded with an exuberant extra swords with himself, who was also a walking lethal weapon carrying only a Japanese sword and a single-action gun but was able to massacre over 800,000 citizens in China, which we can say “more lethal than even A-bomb.” They had plenty of arms and ammunition, plenty enough not to need them to think twice of pointlessly killing hundreds of thousands of local people in its colonies who could have brought more money and product to Japan and the Japanese people.
They coerced 3,200,000 Chinese people to work for Japan. Of all of them, 1,000,000 people was died, and 10,000 people were buried alive for confidentiality reasons. Even in such a harsh condition, thanks to its incredible generalship, they were able to control rebellion.
They built a total of 19 fortresses, of them those on the ground stretched over 4,700 km and those on the underground stretched over 1,700km and they had been able to hide them for over 60 years without no one noticing thanks to its unbelievable capability of controlling information.
They had an impeccable ordering system to convince people in Okinawa to commit suicidal attack on the U.S. soldiers. They had fantastic capability to hide every unfavorable information for Japan such as the time when and how they killed people, how the state of mind of the JIA soldiers was. They were perverted and visionary enough to decide sending a countless Japanese comfort women to Indonesia even when it was ruled by the Netherlands not by Japan.

They also had a advanced civil engineering technology to make it possible to narrow the width of the Yangtze River to less than 2m and had a capability of killing 300,000 people of the Nanking city, China, where 200,000 people lived at that time, who had an enough leverage to sweep up away all those dead bodies of 300,000 victims by only one truck in an astonishingly short period: in two weeks, who had many so-called comfort women surpassing the number of that of the JIA soldiers, who were well fed to maintain enough physical strength to intercourse with over a couple of dozen comfort women per day without loosing a humor to do GANSYA or spraying his sperms on woman’s face even though the concept of it didn’t get any familiar among the Japanese people until recently, who in Korea had plenty of time to kill so they broke into not only cultural facilities but every house and searched and burned books of any kind such as dictionaries, even Korean’s traditional recipe books, who come to Korea not because they were going to colonize the country but because they came in to incorporate Korea peacefully in order to protect Korea, in this sense these Japanese people were mere strangers in Korea, nevertheless Japanese people had profound knowledge on Chinese feng shui, which was not familiar in Japan though, and ambition to use it for weakening Korea by building iron piles, copper piles and such on the top of mountains for some reason, who were skilled enough at alchemy to produce aviation fuel out of human fat, who were trained enough to cloak his own shadow to avoid being found, who invented a magical machine gun that was able to kill people without bleeding around, who had abundant money and resources to allow them to consume it not for seizing Korea’s exquisite buildings, cities, and railways, instead they destroyed all of them and replaced them with poor and unsophisticated buildings by the Japanese technology consuming tons of their money and resources, who had abundant supply of oil to allow shuttling a half of the population in the Korean Peninsula to Japan back and forth, who occupied two-third of the vast mainland of China, which has 9.6 million km2 area in it, who burned down over 1,7000 villages throughout China by torching them in just 6 years, who were so cruel to be able to think of up to 250 types of murdering method, who had expendable tons of gasoline to set fire to over 50,000,000 innocent Chinese civilians and killed them for unknown reasons, who destroyed everything in China,

(cont. to:THE BIGGEST CONUNDRUM IN HUMAN HISTORY (2 of 2)

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Q&A: Songs about these history people?

June 11, 2012 / jessica / 1 Comment

Question by Jackie A: Songs about these history people?
YOU DONT HAVE TO GIVE ME ALL OF THEM I WOULD BE THANKFUL FOR AT LEAST 2 OR 3.

I WILL GIVE 10 POINTS TO SOMEONE WHO REALLY HELPS ME OUT, THANKS

It doesnt need to be about the exact person or thing
for example Terracotta soldiers- (one by metallica)

xia dynasty (number one by nelly) it makes sense because xia dynasty was the FIRST chinese dynasty

foot binding (watch my feet by Dude n Nem)

here are the rest of the topics:

shang dynasty
zhou dynasty
qin dynasty
han dynasty
seven warring states
confucianism
taoism/daoism
lao tzu
legalism
fu hao
mandate of heaven/dynastic cycle
king wu
qin shi huangdi
great wall of china
censorship
liu bang
wudi
yang and or Yangtze river
buddhism
womens roles

YOU DONT HAVE TO GIVE ME ALL OF THEM I WOULD BE THANKFUL FOR AT LEAST 2 OR 3.

I WILL GIVE 10 POINTS TO SOMEONE WHO REALLY HELPS ME OUT, THANKS

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Answer by Michael K
Dude, good luck. This sounds hard!!

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help me with history?

May 4, 2012 / jessica / 1 Comment

Question by Ishudbpregobynw: help me with history?
Question 1 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

During the Middle Ages, what was a serf?

Peasants bound to the land and unable to leave though they were not slaves; required to work part of the lord’s land and also to pay rent for their ‘own’ plot of land.

Military retainers who provided the lord with military service in exchange for land.

Men who choose to live apart from society in religious communities called monasteries.

A religious order of monks who lived among the people and aided the poor.

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Question 2 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

Which of the following was a positive result of the Crusades?

Increased trade between Western Europe and the Middle East

Trade and commerce grew

Western Europe acquired goods such as sugar, rice, lemons, cotton, spices and other goods

All of the above

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Question 3 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

A code of ethics for knights during the Middle Ages, gradually developed to replace common uncivilized behavior among the nobility.

Bushido

Chivalry

Guild

Fief

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Question 4 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

Which of the following features is common to African traditional religions?

Belief in one God

Belief in and respect for ancestral spirits

Belief in redemption through good works

Belief that all life involves suffering

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Question 5 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

What was the worst disaster to befall the Aztecs during the reign of Moctezuma II?

Tribute people revolted

Drought killed the corn crop

A hurricane destroyed their capital city

The Spanish invaded

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Question 6 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

What was one reason why the Mongol Empire did not last long?

They were intolerant of other religions

They were weak militarily

They had no strong leaders

They were better at war than government

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Question 7 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

Most of the world’s Hindus are found in what country?

China

Pakistan

Iran

India

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Question 8 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

The first Egyptian stone pyramids were built in 2700 BCE. Approximately how long ago were they built?

2700 years ago

4700 years ago

700 years ago

2000 years ago

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Question 9 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

In what ancient river valley would the stone monument with Hammurabi’s Law inscribed be found?

Hwang Ho and Yangtze River Valleys

Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys

Nile River Valley

Indus River Valley

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Question 10 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

What made Wu Chao unique in ancient China?

Wu Chao built the Great Wall.

Wu Chao was the first female emperor.

Wu Chao created the philosophy of Confucianism.

Wu Chao was the first European to travel to China.

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Question 11 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

The goal of a Buddhist is, through meditation, to reach the highest degree of God-consciousness. This is called

Reincarnation

Karma

Caste

Nirvana

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Question 12 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

Hinduism is based on the concept that human and animal spirits come back to earth to live many times in different forms. This is known as

Karma

Caste

Reincarnation

Nirvana

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Question 13 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

Which best describes the number of years between the rise and fall of Rome?

100 years

500 years

1,000 years

5,000 years

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Question 14 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

What type of government does the United States use today?

Representative Democracy

Direct Democracy

Oligarchy

Theocracy

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Question 15

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Answer by twmoney_31
Question 1: A (peasants on the land)

2: D- All of the Above

3. Chivalry

4. Belief in ancestral spirits

5. Spanish invaded

6. Better at war than gov

7. India

8. 4700 yrs

9. between tigris and euphrates

10. first female

11.Nirvana

12 Reincarnation

13. 1,000

14..Representative Democracy

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Ancient History questions?

April 27, 2012 / jessica / 2 Comments

Question by britt: Ancient History questions?
Which of the following was NOT a site of the earliest river valley civilizations?

Huang He River Valley

Nile River Valley

Danube River Valley

Tigris and Euphrates River Valley

Question 5 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

Which of the following would NOT be representative of the types of laws found in Hammurabi’s Code?

If a man has put out the eye of another man, they shall put out his eye

If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make his construction sound, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, the builder shall be put to death

If he destroys the eye of a man’s slave or breaks a bone of a man’s slave, he shall pay one-half of his price

If a man causes the death of another by accident, with no malice intended, then he shall be found not guilty and no punishment levied

Question 6 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

In what ancient river valley would the stone monument with Hammurabi’s Law inscribed be found?

Hwang Ho and Yangtze River Valleys

Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys

Nile River Valley

Indus River Valley

Question 7 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

In what Empire did Christianity begin?

Gupta Empire

Han Dynasty

Ancient Greece

Roman Empire

Question 8 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

The Olympics were a sporting event as well as a way for Greeks to keep fit for war. What was another purpose of the games?

To bring peace and unity to the Greek city-states

A religious festival dedicated to the gods

A place for men and women to come together for celebrations and entertainment

All of the above

Question 9 (Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)

What is the Arabic word for “God”?

Allah

Muhammad

Jehovah

Buddha

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Answer by Brian W
Which of the following was NOT a site of the earliest river valley civilizations?
Danube River Valley

Which of the following would NOT be representative of the types of laws found in Hammurabi’s Code?

If a man causes the death of another by accident, with no malice intended, then he shall be found not guilty and no punishment levied

In what ancient river valley would the stone monument with Hammurabi’s Law inscribed be found?

Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys

In what Empire did Christianity begin?
Roman Empire

The Olympics were a sporting event as well as a way for Greeks to keep fit for war. What was another purpose of the games?

A religious festival dedicated to the gods

What is the Arabic word for “God”?

Allah

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hey this is for anyone who likes world history, answer if u no plz.?

March 28, 2012 / jessica / 1 Comment

Question by thecrazyday: hey this is for anyone who likes world history, answer if u no plz.?
These are questions for my exam review and im just hoping that some of you guys can help me. Theres 78 questions. You don’t have to answer all all the questions but answer as many as you can if you want. thx.

1. Where is the Tigris River?
2. Where is the Euphrates River?
3. Where is the Nile River?
4. Why is the Himalayas important?
5. What is the significance of the Yangtze River?
6. What is the significance of the Ganges River?
7. What is the significance of the North China Plain?
8. List the characteristics of a civilization.
9. What were Nomadic Invasions?
10. Describe the River Valley Agriculture.
11. What is the Caste system?
12. What is reincarnation?
13. Who were the Pheonicians?
14. What were the Phonetic symbols used for?
15. Who was Confucious?
16. What is Aristocracy?
17. What is Direct democracy?
18. What is a Monarchy?
19. What is an Oligarchy?
20. What is a Republic?
21. List the common economies of the ancient empires.
22. List some classical art and architecture from Greece.
23. What were the city states in Greece?
24. Describe Roman Law.
25. What were the 12 Tables?
26. What was Pax Romana?
27. What is succession?
28. List the outcomes of the Hellenistic Civilization.
29. What is cultural diffusion?
30. List the Indian Achievements in science.
31. What were the 10 commandments?
32. Compare the original Holy Roman Empire to the one under Fredrick I.
33. What was the government under the Han Dynasty?
34. What was the economy under the Han Dynasty?
35. What were the results of the Bantu Migration?
36. What was the agriculture like under the Bantu’s?
37. What were the political, economic and environmental reasons for the migration?
38. What was the agriculture like in the Americas?
39. What was the trade like in the Americas?
40. What is the House of Wisdom?
41. What is the Qur’an?
42. What were the 5 Pillars of Islam?
43. What is Justinian’s Code?
44. What was Muslim trade and culture?
45. Who were Samurai?
46. What was government like in Feudal Japan?
47. Who was Genghis Khan?
48. What were Germanic tribes?
49. Who was Marco Polo?
50. What was the impact of Nomadic Invasions?
51. Who was Charlemagne?
52. What is Feudalism?
53. What is a Manor System?
54. Who is a lord?
55. Who is a vassal?
56. Who is a knight?
57. List the functions of the guilds.
58. What were the cause and effects of the Commercial revolution?
59. What is the magna carta?
60. What is Parliament?
61. What were the effects of the Crusades?
62. What were stateless societies?
63. What was African trade?
64. List the conquests of the Aztecs.
65. What was the language of the Aztecs?
66. What type of government was run by the Incas?
67. What technology was created by the Incas?
68. What type of trade was developed by the Mayas?
69. What was the language of the Mayas?
70. What was the Renaissance?
71. Who were the Humanists?
72. Who was Leonardo DaVinci?
73. What is Block print?
74. Who is Martin Luther and his beliefs of salvation?
75. What were the selling of indulgences?
76. Describe the Ottoman and Safavid empires.
77. What types of industry were in these empires?
78. What is Cultural Blending?

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Answer by katie and my friend jasmine
i know number 12
number 12 is like when the dead comes back to life as someone/something else.
thats pretty much it. haha

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The 20 most important naval battles in the history?

January 21, 2012 / jessica / 6 Comments

Question by sinnombre2: The 20 most important naval battles in the history?
battle of the delta(1178bc)>While there is no documentation for any pursuit of the defeated Sea Peoples, who fled to the Levant, Egypt was saved from the fate of total destruction.This is the first naval battle in the history.