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A History of England Bede: Conversion of England The Arrival in Kent of the missionaries sent By Gregory the Great (597) In the year of our Lord 582, Maurice, the fifty-fourth emperor from Augustus, ascended the throne and reigned twenty-one years. In the tenth year of his reign, Gregory, a man reno...

Decline Of The Moorish Power In SpainAuthor: Dunham, S. A.Growth And Decay Of The Almoravide And Almohade Dynasties1086 - 1214During the early part of the eleventh century the western caliphate,which with its splendid capital of Cordova had flourished for almost threehundred years, entered upon a de...

Penitential Prayer to Every God This prayer was found on a tablet which dates from the mid-seventh century BC. The original prayer is from Sumer and probably dates from somewhat earlier. May the wrath of the heart of my god be pacified!May the god who is unknown to me be pacified!May the goddess who...

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...

England Under Mary. History Of EnglandAuthor: Dickens, CharlesThe Duke of Northumberland was very anxious to keep the young king'sdeath a secret, in order that he might get the two princesses into his power.But the Princess Mary, being informed of that event as she was on her way toLondon to see her...

History Of The Conquest Of Mexico, The Aztecs (part seven) The Postclassical Era Book: Chapter 17: The Americas On The Eve Of Invasion Author: Prescott, William H Date: 1992 Document: Aztec Women And Men In the mid-16th century, Bernardino de Sahagun, a Spanish missionary, prepared an extraordinary...

The Americas, Origins Of American SocietiesAuthor: Stearns, Peter NDate: 2001Origins Of American SocietiesMost archeologists agree that the Americas were originally populated bypeoples from Asia, who moved during the period of the last Ice Age when thelevel of the oceans fell. Possibly due to increa...

Babylonia, A history of ancient Babylon (Babylonia) including its cities, laws, kings and legacy to civilization. The International History Project 2004 The Babylonian civilization, which endured from the 18th until the 6th century BC, was, like the Sumerian that preceded it, urban in character, alt ...

The Middle Ages Date: 2002 The Making Of Modern Britain Medieval Politics, Economics, Religion, And Learning Introduction Between 1000 and 1300, drastic political, economic, and social change occurred in Europe. Not only did trade revive, cities grow, and a new bourgeois social class emerge, but i...

SARTRE, Jean-Paul (1905-80). One of the leading exponents of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre was also well known as a writer. He expressed his dedication to his philosophy both in what he wrote and in the way he lived his life. Jean-Paul Sartre was born on June 21, 1905, in Paris, France. In 1919 h...

Description of Huns and Goths About AD 390 By Ammianus Marcellinus Source: Robinson, James, ed. Readings in European History. Vol. I. Boston & New York: Ginn & Co., 1904. Ammianus Marcellinus, a retired Roman soldier, wrote his descriptions of the Huns and Goths more than a decade after 376...

Persia The Rise of Persia Under Cyrus II Author: Grote, George The ruling dynasty of the Persians settled in Fars in southwestern Iran (possibly the Parsumash of the later Assyrian records) traced its ancestry back to an eponymous ancestor, Haxamanish, or Achaemenes. There is no historical evidence ...