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The Iberian Golden AgeEuropean Expansion: Exploration And Colonization, 1400-1650Author: Allen PikermanDate: 2002IntroductionDuring the fifteenth century, Europe began a process of unprecedentedexpansion that by 1650 had affected all areas of the world. This was actuallypart of a global tendency tow...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IIThe sovereignty of the emperors, meanwhile, though not very effective,was in theory always admitted. Their name was used in public acts, andappeared upon the coin. When they came into Italy they had certain customarysupplies of provisions, called fod...

Ancient Rome Gracchi And Their Reforms 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) ...

GRANT, ULYSSES S. (1822-1885). 18th President of the U.S. (1869-1877). Nicknamed"Unconditional Surrender" Grant after cooly demanding "immediate and unconditionalsurrender" at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi (May 18 - July 4, 1863; surrendered on July4, 1863). 29,000 rebel troops surrendered, th...

An Overview of the Paleolithic Prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools. Robert A. Guisepi Date:2000 The Stone Age is a prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone too...

Saint-Simon's Portrait of Louis XIVfrom "Parallele des trois premiers rois Bourbons" (written in 1746), Ecrits inedits de Saint-Simon I, 84 sqqin J.H. Robinson, Readings in European History 2 vols. (Boston: Ginn, 1906), 2:285-286.Scanned by Brian Cheek, Hanover College. November 12, 1995. Louis XIV'...

Trajan b. Sept. 15?, AD 53, Italica, Baetica [now in Spain]d. Aug. 8/9, 117, Selinus, Cilicia [now in Turkey] Latin IN FULL CAESAR DIVI NERVAE FILIUS NERVA TRAIANUS OPTIMUS AUGUSTUS, also called ( 9798) CAESAR NERVA TRAIANUS GERMANICUS, ORIGINAL NAME MARCUS ULPIUS TRAIANUS, Roman emperor (AD 98-117)...

Joshua Chamberlain Lying in a hollow, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain writes home to his wife Fanny, describing the Battle of Sharpsburg... "At about mid night I rode softly along examining our pickets, & whenever the horse stumbled -- whiz-- would come a bullet in the dark. All this morning, & ...

Ancient History Sourcebook:Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Divus Claudius, c. 110 CE. Translated by J. C. Rolfe. [Arkenberg Introduction]. Rolfe's annotations appear in brackets with no attribution; mine are noted. I have also replaced modern place names, as used by Rolfe, with those in use by the Roma ...

Babylonia, A history of ancient Babylon (Babylonia) including its cities, laws, kings and legacy to civilization. The last kings of Babylonia Awil-Marduk (called Evil-Merodach in the Old Testament; 561-560), the son of Nebuchadrezzar, was unable to win the support of the priests of Marduk. His reig...

The Emergence Of JapanThe Rising Flood Of Asian Culture, 300-1300 The rise of Japan after the sixth century was part of a much largerprocess in which a number of new fringe cultures developed rapidly in theshadows of the old major civilizations. In Europe, Africa, southeast andcentral Asia, Korea, a...

Braxton Bragg b. March 22, 1817, Warrenton, N.C., U.S.d. Sept. 27, 1876, Galveston, Texas Confederate officer in the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) whose successes in the West were dissipated when he failed to follow up on them.After graduating in 1837 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., B...