Tag: world history

AssyriaIntroductionAuthor: Godspeed, George By 700 B.C. the era of small states had ended with the emergence of the Assyrian empire. The great contribution of the Assyrians was the forcible unification of weak, unstable nations and the establishment of an efficient imperial organization. Language...

The Renaissance Beginning And Progress Of The Renaissance Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Fourteenth To Sixteenth Century Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. The Italian Renaissance had placed human beings once more in the center of life's stage and infused thought and...

KU KLUX KLAN Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi A secret terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan led underground resistance against the civil rights and political power of newly freed slaves during the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War. The Klan's goal was to reestablish the ...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Author: Jewsbury, Lewis Date: 1992 ALCIBIADES (450?-404 BC) When the philosopher Socrates was tried and convicted, in 399 BC, for corrupting the young men of Athens, it is possible that the example of Alcibiades was on the minds of the judges. I...

Watt Improves The Steam-Engine Author: Arago, Francois Watt Improves The Steam-Engine 1769 No greater service has been rendered to the world through mechanical invention than that performed by James Watt in his improvement of the steam-engine. Watt was born at Greenock, Scotland, in 1736. During th...

Acquisition Of CaliforniaAuthor: Dawson, Henry B.Acquisition Of California1846In the history of the United States, the acquisition of California,carrying with it that of New Mexico, was a peculiar and unusual event, and oneof immense significance in the expansion and development of the Republic.Toge...

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Antipapal Movement: Arnold Of Brescia Author: Neander, Johann A. W. St. Bernard And The Second Crusade, A.D. 1145-1155 During the first half of the twelfth century - a period marked by conflicting spiritual tendencies - in Italy began a work of ...

Mesopotamia Edited By: Robert Guisepi Mesopotamia is a region, not a country. Refer to the individual Peoples that made up Mesopotamia; the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and to some degree the Hittites, Phoenicians and PersiansIn the narrow sense, Mesopotamia is the area b...

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION - JUNE 20, 1676: The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676) On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely establi...

Africa, The Spread Of Civilization In Africa Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Date: 2001 Africa is a continent of great size, almost 12 million square miles orabout three times the size of the United States. Most of it lies in thetropics and, although we often think of Africa in terms of it...

The Hundred Years War The International History ProjectThe Hundred Years War was an intermittent struggle between England and France in the 14th-15th century over a series of disputes, including the question of the legitimate succession to the French crown. The struggle involved several generations ...

Ancient Rome The Samnite Wars 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...