Tag: world history

Indo-Europeans to the Middle Ages Indo-European Invasions triggered by Flooding of Black Sea 5600 B.C. Indo-Europeans (Aryan language) Nomadic tribes from Steppes of AsiaHerders and GrazersWarfare using horsesSwept into Old Europe, Middle East, India starting about 5,000 BCReligion of war and male...

The Akkadians Portions of this work contributed by Robert A. Guisepi and F. Roy Williams, University of California Akkad from 2350 to 2000 BC There are several reasons for taking the year 2350 as a turning point in the history of Mesopotamia. For the first time, an empire arose on Mesopotamian soil....

The Iberian Golden AgeEuropean Expansion: Exploration And Colonization, 1400-1650Author: Allen PikermanDate: 2002IntroductionDuring the fifteenth century, Europe began a process of unprecedentedexpansion that by 1650 had affected all areas of the world. This was actuallypart of a global tendency tow...

Portuguese ahead of other Europeans in Africa and Asia Portuguese Maritime TradePortuguese inland in Africa in the early 1500sExpansion and Slave Trading from Luanda Portuguese voyages: places with first arrival dates Portuguese Expansion in the early 1500s By 1500, the Portuguese had already sailed...

Sumerian Legend of Creation ENUMA ELISH TABLET I When skies above were not yet namedNor earth below pronounced by name,Apsu, the first one, their begetterAnd maker Tiamat, who bore them all,Had mixed their waters together,But had not formed pastures, nor discovered reed-beds;When yet no gods were ma...

Braxton Bragg b. March 22, 1817, Warrenton, N.C., U.S.d. Sept. 27, 1876, Galveston, Texas Confederate officer in the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) whose successes in the West were dissipated when he failed to follow up on them.After graduating in 1837 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., B...

Plutarch's Lives: Caius Gracchus Caius Gracchus, at first, either for fear of his brother's enemies,or designing to render them more odious to the people, absentedhimself from the public assemblies, and lived quietly in his ownhouse, as if he were not only reduced for the present to liveunambitiousl...

Statutes of Willliam The Conqueror (Stubbs' "Charters," p. 83-85.) Here is shown what William the king of the English, together With his princes, has established since the Conquest of England. 1. Firstly that, above all things, he wishes one God to lie venerated throughout his whole kingdom, one fai...

The Foundations Of European Global Dominance Scientific SuperiorityIntroduction The word imperialism has come to mean many things to many people. Broadly speaking, the term refers to the extension of authority or control, whether direct or indirect, of one nation over another. But we use the term i...

Trajan b. Sept. 15?, AD 53, Italica, Baetica [now in Spain]d. Aug. 8/9, 117, Selinus, Cilicia [now in Turkey] Latin IN FULL CAESAR DIVI NERVAE FILIUS NERVA TRAIANUS OPTIMUS AUGUSTUS, also called ( 9798) CAESAR NERVA TRAIANUS GERMANICUS, ORIGINAL NAME MARCUS ULPIUS TRAIANUS, Roman emperor (AD 98-117)...

Mary Chesnut A Diary from Dixie,as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut,Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senatorfrom South Carolina, 1859-1861,and Afterward an Aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-Generalin the Confederate Army: I do not pretend to go to sleep. How can I? If Anderson does no...

John Hancock Written by, Dr. Joseph John Ellis The man whose name heads the list of signers of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock was a Boston patriot and a leader of the American Revolution. His prominent signature is familiar to anyone who has seen a picture of that document. John Hanco...