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Russia And Japan - Industrialization Outside The WestAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.; Adas, Michael;Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992Russia's Reforms And Industrial AdvanceNeither Russia nor Japan generated significant changes during the firsthalf of the 19th century. Both countries were bent on maintaining t...

WARFARE Edited By: Robert Guisepi "Every age, however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown." This judgment by the historian Edward Gibbon has been echoed in the 20th century by one of the great generals of World War II, Sir Bernard Law Montgom ...

Huns And Their Western MigrationAuthor: MarcellinusHuns And Their Western MigrationA.D. 374-376IntroductionThe Huns, whose incursions into Europe constituted the first "yellowperil," were a nomadic Mongolian race. In the fourth century before Christthey successfully invaded China. From the country, ...

Civilizations Of The Americas, The Peoples To The NorthAuthor: Adas, MichaelDate: 1992The Peoples To The NorthArcheologists have been able to distinguish various stages of Archaicculture, from Alaska to northern Mexico, among the ancestors of the NorthAmerican Indians. We cannot deal in detail with ...

Title: Civilization Of the Hebrews Along The Banks Of Rivers Edited By: Robert Guisepi The Hebrew Kingdoms In war, diplomacy, inventions, and art, the Hebrews made little splash in the stream of history. In religion and ethics, however, their contribution to the world civilization was tremendous....

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT. Passed by Congress in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act has been called the most momentous piece of legislation in the United States before the American Civil War. It set in motion events that led directly to the conflict over slavery. In January 1854, with the support of President ...

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 American Civil War, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Hold The Line at All Costs Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 rica Excerpts From Chamberlain's Writings As we neared the summit of the mountain, the shot so raked the crest that we had to keep our men below it to save their heads, although this did no...

James Longstreet b. Jan. 8, 1821, Edgefield District, S.C., U.S.d. Jan. 2, 1904, Gainesville, Ga. Longstreet was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1842), he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded from ...

A History of Ancient Greece, TROY The Glory That Was Greece Author: Jewsbury, Lewis Date: 1992 Greek TROIA, also called ILIOS, OR ILION, Latin TROIA, TROJA, OR ILIUM, was an ancient city in northwestern Anatolia that holds an enduring place in both literature and archaeology. The legend of the Troj...

The Postclassical Era Date: 1992 The Byzantine Empire unfolded initially as part of the greater Roman Empire and then, as this framework shattered with Roman decline, took on a life of its own particularly from the reign of the emperor Justinian onward. During its formative period, which lasted thr...

A History of Ancient Greece PELOPONNESIAN WAR. Ancient Greece in 431 BC was not a nation. It was a large collection of rival city-states located on the Greek mainland, on the west coast of Asia Minor, and on the many islands of the Aegean Sea. Most of the city-states had become allied with one or...