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3) Ancient Rome
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Briefly discusses the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.
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"In little more than half a century, the electronic digital computer has profoundly transformed science, industry, business, and society itself. In changing how people organize their work and lives, the developments of the digital age can he compared to the Industrial Revolution that began during the late eighteenth century."--p. 8.
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The Elizabethan era was a time of Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, pirates in the Caribbean, and the majestic glory of Queen Elizabeth. It was also a time of plague, poverty, and religious revolution. Elizabethan England explores the good and bad of a nation transformed, from the pomp of the royal court to daily life in London and naval battles on the high seas.
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By the early 1900s the notion that a single bomb could destroy an entire city began to take root as physicists developed the science of fission the ability to create tremendous amounts of energy by splitting the atom. In 1939, as war swept across Europe, president Franklin D. Roosevelt realized that America would soon be drawn into the conflict and the US would be in a race against Germany and Japan to develop the atomic bomb. Under Roosevelt, the...