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The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Note To Book IVThe story of Cava, daughter of Count Julian, whose seduction by Roderic,the last Gothic king, impelled her father to invite the Moors into Spain,enters largely into the cycle of Castilian romance and into the graven...

A History of Ancient Greece, TROY The Glory That Was Greece Author: Jewsbury, Lewis Date: 1992 Greek TROIA, also called ILIOS, OR ILION, Latin TROIA, TROJA, OR ILIUM, was an ancient city in northwestern Anatolia that holds an enduring place in both literature and archaeology. The legend of the Troj...

Abraham Lincoln Lincoln's Letter To Mrs. Bixby Author: Lincoln, Abraham Date: 1864 Executive Mansion, Washington, November 21, 1864. Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts: Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you ar...

Patrick Henry Written by, Dr. Joseph John Ellis "Gentlemen may cry peace! peace! but there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet a...

Ud-ul-uru (Old man cultivator) gave advice to his son: When you have to prepare a field, inspect the levees, canals and mounds that have to be opened. When you let the flood water into the field, this water should not rise too high in it. At the time that the field emerges from the water, watch its ...

THE REFORMATION Europe's Search For Stability One of the greatest of all revolutions was the 16th-century religious revolt known as the Reformation. This stormy, often brutal, conflict separated the Christians of Western Europe into Protestants and Catholics. So far-reaching were the results of the ...

Ancient Egypt, Menes 2925 B.C. also spelled MENA, MENI, OR MIN, first king of unified Egypt, who, according to tradition, joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single, centralized monarchy. Manetho, a 3rd-century-bc Egyptian historian, called him Menes; the 5th-century-bc Greek historian Herodotus refer...

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...

William Lloyd Garrison b. Dec. 10/12, 1805, Newburyport, Mass., U.S.d. May 24, 1879, New York City U.S. Garrison was a journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831-65), and helped lead the successful Abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States. Garrison was the...

The Postclassical Era Date: 1992 The Byzantine Empire unfolded initially as part of the greater Roman Empire and then, as this framework shattered with Roman decline, took on a life of its own particularly from the reign of the emperor Justinian onward. During its formative period, which lasted thr...

The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors To Empire BuildersAuthor: Robert GuisepiDate: 1992 For centuries before the rise of the Ottoman dynasty in the 13th and 14thcenturies, Turkic-speaking peoples from central Asia had played key roles inIslamic civilization as soldiers and administrators, often in t...

Cuneiform Cuneiform was the system of writing used most extensively in the ancient Middle East. Cuneiform was employed for writing a number of languages from about the end of the 4th millennium BC until about the 1st century BC. Spread and development of cuneiform Although begun by the Sumerians, ev...