Tag: world history

Golden Bull, "Hungary's Magna Charta"Author: E.O.S.Golden Bull, "Hungary's Magna Charta"1222During the century preceding the reign of Andrew II, King of Hungary,which began in 1205, that country had been engaged in frequent Wars withVenice over the possession of Dalmatia, but no event of recent year...

Mamelukes Usurp Power In EgyptAuthor: Muir, Sir WilliamMamelukes Usurp Power In Egypt1250From A.D. 969 to 1171 the Arabian dynasty of caliphs called Fatimites -because they professed to trace their descent from Fatima, the daughter ofMahomet - reigned in Egypt. Their downfall was due to their own de...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Date: 1992 Ancient Greece and Ethics Early Greece was the birthplace of Western philosophical ethics. The ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who flourished in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, will be discussed in the next section. The sudden...

World War One, Between the two world wars A strong impulse toward the development of international studies in universities came in the 1920s. New centers, institutes, and schools devoted to teaching and research in international relations were founded. Courses were organized and general textbooks ...

The Magna Carta Preamble: John , by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to the archbishop, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justiciaries, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his bailiffs and liege subjects, greetings....

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First Turkish Dominion In Europe, Turks Seize GallipoliAuthor: Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph VonTranslation: Leonard-Stuart, Charles First Turkish Dominion In Europe, Turks Seize Gallipoli1354During the early years of the fourteenth century a new Mahometan realmwas established on the ruins of the Seljuki...

American Civil War Letter In 1861, a Union officer named Sullivan Ballou, assigned to the Grand Army of The Potomac, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield, Rhode Island. July 14, 1861 Dear Sarah, The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days, perhaps tomorrow, and lest I should no...

Dissension And Separation Of The Greek And Roman ChurchesAuthor: Tozer, Henry FanshaweDissension And Separation Of The Greek And Roman Churches1054The Eastern or Greek Christian Church, now known as the Holy Orthodox,Catholic, Apostolic, Oriental Church, first assumed individuality at Ephesus,and in...

Women In Patriarchal Societies The Origins Of Civilizations Date: 1992 Most agricultural civilizations downgraded the status and potential of women, at least according to modern Western standards and to the implicit standards of hunting-and-gathering societies. Agricultural civilizations were cha...

The American Civil War, Joshua Lawrence ChamberlainEdited by: Robert Guisepi, 2002 Excerpts From Chamberlain's WritingsA Brief BiographyBy Charles CalhounJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born Sept. 8, 1828, in Brewer, Maine, the eldest of five children. Facing the much larger city of Bangor across th...

World War One, PERSHING, John J At the age of 56, John J. Pershing became the commander of the American Expeditionary Force that helped to turn the tide in favor of the Allies and against the Central Powers during World War I. For his leadership during the war, he was promoted to the rank of general...