Tag: world history

The Spread Of Civilization In Eastern Europe, Part Four Long before Byzantine decline after the 11th century, the empire had been the source of a new northward surge of Christianity. Orthodox missionaries sent from Constantinople busily converted most people in the Balkans - in what is now Bulgaria...

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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...

American Civil War: Submarines The U.S. made its next significant attempt at submarine warfare during the Civil War (1861–65). Faced with the Union Navy's superior strength and a blockade of Southern ports, the Confederate States turned to unconventional methods, including submarines, to gain an edg...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part VI Notwithstanding the deranged condition of the Milanese, no furtherattempts were made by the senate of Venice for twenty years. They had not yetacquired that decided love of war and conquest which soon began to influencethem against all the rules of...

The Guti There is very little known about the people called the Guti. The Guti were a mountain people of ancient Mesopotamia who lived primarily around Hamadan in the central Zagros Range. The Guti were a strong political force throughout the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC, especially about 2230, when th...

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)...

The History of Judaism A History of Judaism Author: Salo Wittmayer Baron: Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions, Columbia University, 1930–63. Author of A Social and Religious History of the Jews...

War Between China And JapanAuthor: MacGowan, J.By J. MacGowan1894It might almost be said of the situation in the Far East that the mainquestion is whether Korea should be the Ireland of China or the Ireland ofJapan, and this virtually was what led to the war in 1894 between those twoPowers. The Japa...

The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IIIThe contributions granted by cortes were assessed and collected byrespectable individuals (hombres buenos) of the several towns and villages. ^uThis repartition, as the French call it, of direct taxes is a matter of thehig...

Mexican Revolution And The Great WarRevolution And Reaction In The 20th CenturyAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.;Adas, Michael;Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992 Two cataclysmic events launched Latin America into the 20th century andset in motion trends that would determine much of the region's subsequenthistory...

Events Leading to the Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbor Hawaii The attack on U.S. military forces of the at Pearl Harbor Hawaii did not just happen nor was it a quick reaction to initiatives instituted by President Roosevelt. The Japanese believed that they were being pushed into a corner by Roosevelt...