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The Berlin-Baghdad Railroad 1899-1940
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M092 Creator: Mark Mychajuk ’20 International Relations Designed and largely built by Imperial Germany prior to World War 1, the Berlin-Baghdad Railroad was an act of Imperialism. Germany hoped to gain access to Middle Eastern oil in the Ottoman Empire and new routes of attack on the colonial possessions of Britain and…
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Greece: China’s Gateway to the West
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M025 Creator: Charles Gould ’21 History & Environmental Science In 2008, the so-called “Great Recession” swept across the world, emanating from the United States. In the European Union, no country suffered for longer than Greece, which experienced 90 months of negative economic growth between 2007 and 2017. As western investment dried up,…