Larry Gates
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B.A. Degree, University of South Carolina, M.Ed. from Coastal Carolina University; J.D., University of South Carolina, additional graduate work at University of Maryland, Clemson University, University of Hawaii at Manoa. I presently teach Advanced Placement World History, Advanced Placement U.S. History, and on occasion Advanced Placement European History as well as Government/Economics.
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Answered a Question in History
Your thesis might be along the lines that Ibn Battuta was an Islamic version of Marco Polo who traveled far and wide in Islamic areas; but who came not so much to discover as to compare and... -
Answered a Question in Secession and Civil War
In essence, the war was over before it started. The South did not have the resources or manpower to fight a long sustained war which soon became a battle of attrition. The end of the... -
Answered a Question in History
The First Persian war began when Darius became Emperor of Persia. The Persian Empire encompassed a large geographic area including large portions of Anatolia (present day Turkey.) A... -
Answered a Question in History
At the time of the French Revolution, the French government suffered from crushing debt, primarily due to the wars and lavish expenditures of Louis XIV. The situation was aggravated by the... -
Answered a Question in History
The GI Bill (Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944) did not directly boost the U.S. economy after the war, but it did set aside thirteen million dollars for education, vocational training, and... -
Answered a Question in Slavery
The Atlantic Slave trade developed primarily because of the explosion in demand for sugar cane. Sugar had been unknown in Europe prior to the Crusades; foods were sweetened either with honey... -
Answered a Question in Pre-Columbian Civilizations
The native American people of Central and South America tended to be more advanced than those of North America, although they both have been classified as "Native Americans," or "Indians." The... -
Answered a Question in History
Odd as it might seem, Oliver Cromwell, who ruled as Lord Protector after the execution of Charles I, was more absolutist and autocratic than Charles II; in fact he bore more resemblance to Charles... -
Answered a Question in History
To my mind, the First Amendment is without question the most important in today's world. It's guarantee of freedom of speech and the press guarantees an open expression of honest disagreement, even... -
Answered a Question in Christopher Columbus
I believe the previous answers misinterpret the question, which basically is: were the long term effects of the Colombian Exchange, as instigated by Columbus' presumed "discovery" positive or... -
Answered a Question in Holy Roman Empire
The above answer is descriptive, but not responsive. Actually, the name originated from the coronation of Otto the Great by Pope John XII as "Holy Roman Emperor" in the year 962. Otto had... -
Answered a Question in American Revolution
The major mistake of the British is that they failed to appreciate the colonists' desire to enjoy the rights of Englishmen, primarily the right to be taxed by their elected representatives rather... -
Answered a Question in History
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Fuhrer-bunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945, ten days after his 55th birthday. He had been forced to accept the fact that the war was lost, as was his... -
Answered a Question in Yellow Journalism
Journalism was a substantial factor leading to the Spanish American War. At the time of the war, when expansionary fever was rampant in the U.S., Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World, and William... -
Answered a Question in History
Colonization immediately after the Restoration was primarily a method by which Charles II could satisfy political and financial debts owed to those who helped to restore him to the throne. Some of... -
Answered a Question in European Colonization of North America
Geography was a substantial and primary factor in the development of the North American colonies of Britain. The Southern colonies had rich soil, a warm climate and long growing season; but few... -
Answered a Question in History
The stated purpose of the Spanish in the Americas was "God, gold, and glory." They hoped to find gold and other riches which could be sent back to Spain, and almost incidentally convert the Indians... -
Answered a Question in History
The roots of the consolidation of slavery lie in the staple crop system of agriculture in the South. During the early years of the republic, tobacco was the primary staple crop in many areas, along... -
Answered a Question in European History
The Protestant Reformation had far reaching political consequences for Western Europe, perhaps more far reaching than were its religious consequences. Germany, where the Reformation began was part... -
Answered a Question in History
The Empire reached its greatest extent during the reign of the Spanish Emperor Trajan in 117 A.D. Trajan added Mesopotamia to the Empire as well as portions of Arabia and Jordan, and destroyed the... -
Answered a Question in History
The main source of Columbus' attitudes of the new land and of the people he encountered are not preserved in a letter but in his journals which were delivered under seal to Ferdinand and Isabella.... -
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Napoleon's defeat in Russia was the result of logistical problems, the size of the invaded country, and the Russian winter, all of which combined to hand him a disastrous defeat. Napoleon had... -
Answered a Question in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency
The above answer gives Lincoln far more credit than he deserves, and stretches his role in ending slavery to a fanciful extent. Lincoln did not begin the Civil War, let alone see it as a fight over... -
Answered a Question in History
More people died in World War II than in World War I, and there were such atrocities as the Holocaust. I note that none of the above posts mentioned Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were in and of... -
Answered a Question in History
President George Washington was keenly aware that any action he took as President would set a precedent for future administrations and conducted himself accordingly. An indication of the... -
Answered a Question in George Washington's Presidency
George Washington's foreign policy was primarily to keep the United States neutral in foreign affairs as much as possible, as he did not believe it wise for the new nation to involve itself in the... -
Answered a Question in History
The United States and communist nations had ideologies and economic theories which were completely antithetical to each other. Western countries, including the U.S., were basically capitalist, a... -
Answered a Question in History
It is fallacious to assume that Hitler's anti-Semitism was unique or even new. Jews throughout Europe had been vilified since the Middle Ages because they were (1) Not Christian, (2) persisted in... -
Answered a Question in History
Farming, or the production of a surplusage of food, had several effects on humankind which ultimately led to civilized society. Early people confined themselves to hunting/gathering food and were... -
Answered a Question in Secession and Civil War
The North had a decided advantage over the South, both militarily and economically. The North had a much larger population from which to draw troops, had a decided advantage in heavy industry... -
Answered a Question in European History
The primary difference between the two, and the major break between Medieval and Renaissance thought. was the concept of the worth of the individual, a school of thought known as humanism. At the... -
Answered a Question in Domestic Life in the 1950s
The major sociological effect was the release of pent up demand caused by the war and a tremendous increase in U.S. population as well as home ownership. The United States experienced a tremendous... -
Answered a Question in History
The Safavid Empire declined and eventually collapsed primarily because of incursions from an increasingly strong Russia (at that point known as Muscovy) and the Mughal Empire. A secondary problem... -
Answered a Question in History
The answer to your question lies in the unique political geography and history of Western Europe. No other continent has so many separate nations who are independent and at times antithetical to... -
Answered a Question in The Declaration of Independence
The above answer is incorrect in suggesting that people agree to give up some of their freedoms in order to have the government protect their truly important freedoms. This was the philosophy of... -
Answered a Question in History
African slavery in the Caribbean did not begin until the early sixteenth century; so there was no slavery of that type anywhere in North America in the 14th Century. No European or African presence... -
Answered a Question in The Market Revolution, Industrialization, and New Technologies
British society was impacted by the Industrial Revolution by a restructuring of that society. Previously society had been divided into the nobility and peasantry with a small middle class being... -
Answered a Question in Reconstruction
Wartime Presidential reconstruction was represented by President Lincoln's "ten per cent plan," issued in 1863 which provided that new state governments could be formed when ten per cent of voters... -
Answered a Question in History
Hitler became Chancellor due to his charismatic personality, his organizational genius, and his gift as a public speaker. These attributes enabled him to lead the National Socialist German Worker's... -
Answered a Question in The Ancient World
Among the factors which distinguish the two and mark the progression of early man from hunter-gatherer societies to settled societies: (1) the ability to produce a surplus of food and (2)... -
Answered a Question in History
The Spanish came to the Americas not so much to colonize as to seek gold and glory. A decidedly secondary reason was to Christianize the Indians, although this was frequently overlooked, and... -
Answered a Question in The French Revolution
The major turning points of the Revolution are the following: July 14, 1789 - The Storming of the Bastille, considered the beginning of the Revolution. August 27, 1789 - the issuance of the... -
Answered a Question in Slavery in the Nineteenth Century
The Wilmot proviso was an amendment offered to an appropriations bill in 1846 by David Wilmot, a freshman senator from Pennsylvania. The United States had just gained substantial territory as a... -
Answered a Question in Life in the Thirteen Colonies
During the sixteenth century, the Massachusetts economy was mixed, consisting of farming and shipping/shipbuilding; whereas in Virginia, the economy was almost entirely agriculturally based.... -
Answered a Question in History
There was no single factor which led to the decline of Bronze Age cultures, and the process was erratic at best; however a significant element would appear to be the ability to smelt iron from... -
Answered a Question in The War of 1812
During the Franco-British Wars, American merchants had traded with both sides, even though the U.S. was nominally neutral. Both sides took steps to prevent American trade with the other. However,... -
Answered a Question in History
The conquest of both Mexico and Peru--at least of the dominant Indian culture there--involved attacks by Spanish Conquistadores against established Indian civilizations who vastly outnumbered them.... -
Answered a Question in The Great Depression
The Great Depression was caused primarily by a belief that the economy had entered a period of permanent growth, and there could be no negative consequences. As a result, caution was thrown to the... -
Answered a Question in European History
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 permanently established Britain as a constitutional monarchy and destroyed forever the concept that any English monarch ruled by Divine Right. William of... -
Answered a Question in The Grievances of the Colonists
The primary reason the colonists revolted was that they believed--correctly--that they had been denied their rights as Englishmen. There is some argument that after the French and Indian War,...
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