Tag: world history

PHILOSOPHY Edited By; Robert Guisepi An analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs PhilosophersThere was a time when many of the subjects now taught in school were all part of a very broad area called philosophy. Physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, sociology, governme...

The Middle Ages Date: 1992 During the decline of the Roman Empire, the migrations of a strong, rude people began to change the life of Europe. They were the German barbarians, or Teutonic tribes, who swept across the Rhine and the Danube into the empire. There they accepted Christianity. The union o...

A History of Ancient Greece Hellenistic PoliticsGreece And The Hellenistic WorldAuthor: R.A. GuisepiDate: 1992 The collapse of Athens opened the way for Spartan domination of the Greekmainland. During the war, Sparta had accepted Persian help, particularly onthe seas, and in return it handed over co...

Foundation Of VeniceAuthor: Hodgkin, Thomas; Ruskin, JohnThomas Hodgkin The terrible invaders, made wrathful and terrible by the resistance ofAquileia, streamed through the trembling cities of Venetia. Each earlierstage in the itinerary shows a town blotted out by their truly Tartar geniusfor destr...

Sumerian Language The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process A lexicon of Sumerian which is organized on the basis of phonetic structure, starting with phonetically simple structures and progressing to more complex phonetic structures, has revealed the process by which the proto-Sumerians invente...

Africa: The Spread of Civilization in Africa Various AuthorsEdited By: R. A. GuisepiDate: 2001 Africa is a continent of great size, almost 12 million square miles or about three times the size of the United States. Most of it lies in the tropics, and although we often think of Africa in terms of its...

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 Legacy Of Asia's First CivilizationsAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.Date: 1992Analysis And ConclusionAnalysis: The Legacy Of Asia's First CivilizationsIn their size, complexity, and longevity, the first civilizations todevelop in South Asia and China match and in some respects surpass theearliest civil...

The flying buttress transfers the thrust of the stone roof from the thin nave wall downwards and outwards, enabling the architect to open up the walls into huge stained- glass panels. Flying Buttresses, Notre Dame, Paris Ground Plan of a Gothic Cathedral: Chartres...

The Indus Valley The Indus Civilization, Character and significance And The Genesis Of South Asian Civilization Author: Principal sites of the Indus Civilization. While the Indus (or Harappan) Civilization may be considered the culmination of a long process indigenous to the Indus Valley, a number ...

Great Puritan Exodus To New England, Founding Of BostonAuthor: Palfrey, John G.Great Puritan Exodus To New England, Founding Of Boston1630Whatever might have been the historic development of New England had itproceeded from the single plantation of Plymouth, it is certain that thegrowth and characte...

KOREAN WAR Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Early in the morning of June 25, 1950, the armed forces of Communist North Korea smashed across the 38th parallel of latitude in an invasion of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) that achieved complete surprise. Although attacks came all along the...