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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...

England Under Edward The Sixth. History Of EnglandAuthor: Dickens, CharlesHenry the Eighth had made a will, appointing a council of sixteen togovern the kingdom for his son while he was under age (he was now only tenyears old), and another council of twelve to help them. The most powerful ofthe firs...

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...

Ancient Rome The Roman Army Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed by permission) "Remember, ...

The Rights of Man 1789 The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaratio...

History Filipo Brunelleschi Dufay's stunning motet Nuper Rosarum Flores holds a particularly important place in the history of Florence. As its text relates, Dufays motet was composed for the consecration of Florence's great Cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, known colloquially as Il Duomo on the Fe...

Goths Goths, ancient Teutonic people, who in the 3rd to the 6th century AD were an important power in the Roman world. The Goths were the first Germanic peoples to become Christians. According to the 6th-century Gothic historian Jordanes, the Goths came from Sweden across the Baltic Sea to the basi...

The American Civil War, Jefferson Davis Inaugural Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, Friends and Fellow-Citizens:- CALLED to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the provisional government which you have instituted, I approach the discharge of the ...

The Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine, was the fruition of early American policy. There had long been a deep-seated conviction on the part of the people of the United States that the opportunities of a hard-won freedom would be threatened by the ambitions of European powers and that the aims of th...

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 ...

Asia's First Civilizations - India And ChinaAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.Date: 1992IntroductionLike Sumer, Egypt, and other early civilizations in the Middle East,civilizations first developed in East and South Asia in the vicinity of greatriver systems. When irrigated by the massive spring floods of th...

The American Civil War: Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881) Edited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Ambrose Everett Burnside, though often criticized for his tenure as commander of the Army of the Potomac, faced unique challenges and exhibited a mix of success and failure throughout his military career. Nota...