Tag: world history

Sumerian Culture Before the Sumerians appeared on the land, it had been occupied by a non-Semitic people, referred to as Ubaidians. Their name comes from the village of Al Ubaid, in which their remains were first found by archaeologists. The Ubaidians settled the region between 4500 and 4000 BC. The...

The Agrarian Revolution and the Birth of Civilization: Part Two The Neolithic Transition The advent of agriculture marked a transformative era in human history, as societies began to reshape their environments dramatically. Humans transitioned into sedentary cultivators, clearing land, controlling p...

The Renaissance Beginning And Progress Of The Renaissance Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Fourteenth To Sixteenth Century Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. The Italian Renaissance had placed human beings once more in the center of life's stage and infused thought and...

A History of Ancient Greece, Mythology Greek Mythology, are the beliefs and ritual observances of the ancient Greeks, who became the first Western civilization about 2000 BC. It consists mainly of a body of diverse stories and legends about a variety of gods. Greek mythology had become fully devel...

THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION: To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Conne...

Louis XIV "Nec pluribus impar" ("None his equal") b. Sept. 5, 1638, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Fr. d. Sept. 1, 1715, Versailles Louis XIV who became known by the names LOUIS THE GREAT, LOUIS THE GRAND MONARCH, OR THE SUN KING, French LOUIS LE GRAND, LOUIS LE GRAND MONARQUE, OR LE ROI SOLEIL, king of F...

Civilizations Of The Americas, The Peoples To The NorthAuthor: Adas, MichaelDate: 1992The Peoples To The NorthArcheologists have been able to distinguish various stages of Archaicculture, from Alaska to northern Mexico, among the ancestors of the NorthAmerican Indians. We cannot deal in detail with ...

In 1195 Isaac II was deposed and blinded by his brother Alexius III. The Westerners, who had again blamed the failure of their crusade on the Byzantines, saw ways of exploiting the situation. The emperor Henry VI had united the Norman Kingdom of Sicily with the Holy Roman Empire. He inherited the am...

KANT, Immanuel (1724-1804). The philosopher of the 1700s who ranks with Aristotle and Plato of ancient times is Immanuel Kant. He set forth a chain of explosive ideas that humanity has continued to ponder since his time. He created a link between the idealists--those who thought that all reality was...

Women's RightsAuthor: Wallbank;Taylor;Bailkey;Jewsbury;Lewis;HackettDate: 1992Document: Women's RightsThis statement on women's rights was issued July 7, 1969, by Redstockings, afeminist organization.I. After centuries of individual and preliminary politicalstruggle, women are uniting to achieve the...

Mexican WarAuthor: Bonner, John Mexican War1847When President Polk began his Administration, the United StatesGovernment had become involved in two boundary disputes - one relating toOregon, the other to Texas and Mexico. Out of the latter came the MexicanWar, concerning the political causes and mer...

Kush And The Eastern Mediterranean The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Toward the end of the early civilization period, a number of partially separate civilization centers sprang up on the fringes of the civilized world in Africa and the Middle East, exte...