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A History of Ancient Greece Sparta In ancient Greece, the great rival of Athens was Sparta. The city-state and its surrounding territory were located on the Peloponnesus, a peninsula southwest of Athens. Sparta (also called Lacedaemon) was the capital of the district of Laconia. From the vigorous i...

The First Plantation ColonyEarly Latin AmericaAuthor: Stearns, PeterDate: 1999The search for gold and silver was a constant theme in overseasexpansion, but there were other European demands the New World could alsosatisfy, which contributed to its growing involvement in the Western-dominatedworld ec...

The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors To Empire BuildersAuthor: Robert GuisepiDate: 1992 Part Four OTTOMAN SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONS The Ottoman state and its society rested on many institutions. In creating these institutions, the Ottomans drew on the experiences of earlier Muslim empires, as well a...

Imperial Surrender Broadcastby Emperor Hirohito of Japan At noon on August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan delivered the following over the radio. Not only did this speech signify the end of World War II, but it meant the end of the Emperor’s status as a deity. This was the first time in history the...

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Harvey Discovers The Circulation Of The Blood Author: Huxley, Thomas H. Harvey Discovers The Circulation Of The Blood 1616 Contemporary with Galileo, and ranking but little below him in influence upon the modern world, was William Harvey. Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, combine...

Civilization: Drawbacks And Limits The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Because civilizations are by definition well organized compared to the societies that preceded them, it is not surprising that almost all history is about what has happened to civilized societies. We know most...

Terrorism In Early AmericaThe U.S. Wages War Against The BarbaryStates To End International Blackmail and Terrorism By Thomas JewettThe events of September 11, 2001 shocked the United States out of its complacency concerning its invulnerability. Even though the U.S. has the most powerful military ma...

JACKSON, Stonewall (1824-63). No leader in the American Civil War was more skilled or gallant than Stonewall Jackson. His earnestness of purpose, determination to do right as he saw it, and military genius made him admired by friend and foe alike. Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on Jan. 21, 1824, i...

Catherine The Great Assumes Power In Russia HackettDate: 1992Document: Catherine The Great Assumes Power In RussiaCatherine became empress in 1762 in a coup which overthrew her estrangedhusband, Peter III. This selection is from her own written account of theepisode.The Hetman [Razumovsky,] Volkonsk...

The Battle of Midway The Battle of Midway (June 3-6, 1942), was a World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots and ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in t...

List of who are buried in the Mausoleum of Augudtus AugustusTiberiusCaligulaClaudiusNero ...