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Absolutism As A System L'Etat, C'Est Moi Date: 1998 Absolutism As A System Unlimited royal authority, as advocated by Bossuet and Hobbes, was the main characteristic of absolutism. It was demonstrated most obviously in political organization but also served to integrate into government most econom...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part VState of Italy after the Extinction of the House of Suabia - Conquest ofNaples by Charles of Anjou - The Lombard Republics become severally subject toPrinces or Usurpers - The Visconti of Milan - Their Aggrandizement - Declineof the Imperial Authority ...

Jews' Last Struggle For Freedom: Their Final DispersionAuthor: Merivale, CharlesJews' Last Struggle For Freedom: Their Final DispersionA.D. 132 IntroductionThe successful revolt of the Maccabees against the bloody persecutionsof the Assyrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, about B.C. 164, inaugurated aglo...

The Peoples Of The AmericasAuthor: Stearns, Peter NDate: 1992The Archaic CulturesBy about 9000 B.C. small bands of hunters were widely dispersed over theAmerican continents. Changes in climate with the ending of the last Ice Agemay lay behind changes in diet and ways of life. The disappearance of la...

First American LegislatureAuthor: Campbell, CharlesFirst American LegislatureAs a distinctly American event the beginning of formal legislation inthis country has special interest, no less for the general reader than forstudents of legal history. None of the early institutions of the fathers ismore ...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Date: 1992 Ancient Greece and Ethics Early Greece was the birthplace of Western philosophical ethics. The ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who flourished in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, will be discussed in the next section. The sudden...

The American Civil War, John B. Gordon, Antietam Restoration of McClellan to command of the Federals--My command at General Lee's centre--Remarkable series of bayonet charges by the Union troops--How the centre was held--Bravery of the Union commander--A long struggle for life. THE war had now assu...

The Hittites A history of the Hittites including their cities, kings, art and contributions to civilization The Hittite empire to c. 1180 BC Principal archaeological sites of Anatolia and northern Syria to c. 1340 BC. It is possible that the branch of the Hittite royal family that gained control i...

The slavery controversy and the Civil War By the mid-19th century, most white Georgians, like most Southerners, had come to view slavery as economically indispensable to their society. When the Civil War came, most white Southerners, slave owner or not, joined in the defense of their common heritage...

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...

World War One, President Woodrow Wilson's War Message Woodrow Wilson, War Messages, 65th Cong., 1st Sess. Senate Doc. No. 5, Serial No. 7264, Washington, D.C., 1917; pp. 3-8, passim.On 3 February 1917, President Wilson addressed Congress to announce that diplomatic relations with Germany were seve...