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Human Rights
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Created byKevin KONG
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539BC - Cyrus the great conquered Babylon,
he announced that all slaves were free,
he also said people had the right to choose
their religion, no matter what crowd they're
a part of.3000BC - Only a few people had rights,
the others were slaves479BC - Cyrus the great's words spread to Greece.272BC - Also spreaded to India27BC - And Rome
People followed rules with out
being told to.
It was called Natrual Law1215 - A king from England agree
that no one can overrule
the rights to the people,
not even the king.1789 - French Revolution
They had their own rights,
the list was so much longer
than the rest. They insisted
these weren't made up laws,
they were natural. Now it had
became Natural Rights.1800 - A General from France called
Napoleon overthrew the new
French democracy and crown himself
emperor of the world, he almost succeded.
But the countries of Europe joined
forces and defeated him.1915 - A young lawyer from India called
Mahatma Gandhi insisted that
all the people of Earth had rights,
not just in Europe. Eventually,
even Europeans started to agree1939 - It wasn't going to be that easy.
Two world wars broke out, Hitler
exterminated half of the Jewish
population of Earth in a horrifying
Nazi death camps. 90 million people
died, never had human rights been so
terrifyingly close to extinction.
Never had the world wanted more desperate
for change.1945 - So after WW2 ended, the countries of
Earth banded together and formed the
United Nations. Their basic purpose was to
reaffirm faith in fundamental human
rights in the dignity and worth of the human.
Now, it is called Human Rights
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