Tag: world history

Rise of Civilizations and Empires in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley By Maghan Keita Historians often write of world history in terms of the development of civilizations defined by a characteristic empire. What defines an empire and what does the building of empire suggest? The regions of ...

A great task faced Marcus Aurelius when he became the Roman emperor in AD 161, as successor to his uncle, Emperor Antonius Pius. Generations of luxury had made the patricians, or nobles, weak and selfish. The middle class was disappearing, and the working class was being reduced to a state of slaver...

Thomas Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine To the President of the United States (James Monroe)Monticello, October 24, 1823 DEAR SIR, -- The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us...

Discovery Of Diamonds In Africa Author: Williams, Gardner F. M.A. Discovery Of Diamonds In Africa 1867 The story of the Kimberley diamond-field is one of the romances of the industrial world. Any chemist can tell us that the diamond is pure crystallized carbon; but the wisest geologist cannot make ...

Joshua Chamberlain Lying in a hollow, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain writes home to his wife Fanny, describing the Battle of Sharpsburg... "At about mid night I rode softly along examining our pickets, & whenever the horse stumbled -- whiz-- would come a bullet in the dark. All this morning, & ...

Vespasian b. Nov. 17?, AD 9, Reate [Rieti], Latiumd. June 24, 79 Latin in full CAESAR VESPASIANUS AUGUSTUS, original name TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS, Roman emperor (ad 69-79) who, though of humble birth, became the founder of the Flavian dynasty after the civil wars that followed Nero's death in 68....

Australia And The Islands Of The Sea, Part Three Author: Larkin, Dunton Chapter VII. Tasmania. Tasmania lies a hundred and thirty miles south of Australia, from which it is separated by Bass Strait. It was known formerly as Van Diemen's Land, and contains an area of more than twenty-six thousand sq...

Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Mythology Egyptian Mythology, specifically, the religion of ancient Egypt. The religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptians were the dominating influence in the development of their culture, although a true religion, in the sense of a unified theological system, never existed a...

COMPROMISE OF 1850. At the close of the Mexican War, in 1848, the United States owned vast stretches of territory without local government. All the land now included in New Mexico, Arizona, and California was then unsettled. In 1848, however, gold was discovered in California. Thousands of people, c...

Ancient Carthage Author: Rollin, Charles Part Four Among the conditions of the peace granted to the Carthaginians, there was one which imported, that they should restore to Masinissa all the territories and cities he possessed before the war; and Scipio, to reward the zeal and fidelity which that m ...

Horatio Nelson and Wellington In the center of London's Trafalgar Square stands a column topped by a statue of Admiral Nelson. The square was named in honor of Lord Nelson's victory in the battle of Trafalgar (1805). Nelson was one of England's great naval heroes. His brilliant victories during the ...

Migrations Of The Mormons Author: Kane, Thomas L. Migrations Of The Mormons 1848 Among the numerous religious bodies that have grown up in the United States, the sect of Mormons, officially called "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," is perhaps the most unique in its origin and organi...