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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...

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...

While the campaign for the Philippines was still in progress, U.S. forces were making great steps in the direct advance toward their final objective, the Japanese homeland. Aerial bombardment was, of course, the prerequisite of the projected invasion of Japan--which was to begin, it was imagined, wi...

The European Dream Of Progress And Enlightenment Impact Of The Scientific Revolution Science, Art, And Philosophy In The Eighteenth Century Introduction In the eighteenth century, while royal absolutism faced serious problems, many learned and thoughtful Europeans held a shining vision of the futur...

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 following statements were extracted from essays written by high school seniors and College freshmen. READ CAREFULLY and learn. Not one letter or word has been changed. These are exactly as originally written and there are NO typos. The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies. They lived...

Sumerian Language Four periods of Sumerian can be distinguished: Archaic Sumerian, Old or Classical Sumerian, New Sumerian, and Post-Sumerian. Archaic Sumerian covered a period from about 3100 BC, when the first Sumerian records make their appearance, down to about 2500 BC. The earliest Sumerian wri...

The American Civil War, John Brown The importance of John Brown rests in the fact that prior to his attack upon the armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, the southern army had been almost non-existent. However, after the attack, southerners became worried that northern agitators would stir up the blac...

A History of Ancient Greece The Dorians The Dorians were a major division of the ancient Greek people, distinguished by a well-marked dialect and by their subdivision, within all their communities, into the "tribes" (phylai) of Hylleis, Pamphyloi, and Dymanes. These three tribes were apparently quit...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henr Part III The peace of Constance presented a noble opportunity to the Lombards ofestablishing a permanent federal union of small republics; a form ofgovernment congenial from the earliest ages to Italy, and that, perhaps, underwhich she is again destined one...

The American Civil War: A. P. Hill Edited by: Robert GuisepiPublished: 2002 Overview Born: November 9, 1825, Culpeper, Virginia, U.S.Died: April 2, 1865, Petersburg, Virginia, U.S. A. P. Hill was a Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War, renowned for his leadership of the "Light Division," co...

A History of England Archbishops of Canterbury Name Reign Augustine (Austin) 597-604 Laurentius (Lawrence) 604-619 Mellitus 619-624 Justus 624-627 Honorius 627-653 Deusdedit 655-664 Theodore (Theodorus) 668-690 Berhtwald (Beorhtweald) 693-731 Tatwine 731-734 Nothelm 735-739 Cuthbert (Cuthbeorht) 7...