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Mexico, A brief History The International History Project Before the Spanish arrival in 1519, Mexico was occupied by a large number of Indian groups with very different social and economic systems. In general the tribes in the arid north were relatively small groups of hunters and gatherers who roam...

Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Art History, also called Art Historiography, historical study of the visual arts, being concerned with identifying, classifying, describing, evaluating, interpreting, and understanding the art products and historic development of the fields of painting, sculpture, architectu...

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...

HUME, David (1711-76). A Scottish philosopher and historian, David Hume was a founder of the skeptical, or agnostic, school of philosophy. He had a profound influence on European intellectual life. David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on April 26 (Old Style), 1711. His father, Joseph Hume (or...

Mesopotamian/Sumerian Calendar In Mesopotamia the solar year was divided into two seasons, the "summer," which included the barley harvests in the second half of May or in the beginning of June, and the "winter," which roughly corresponded to today's fall-winter. Three seasons (Assyria) and four sea...

World War One, The Submarine By the eve of World War I all of the major navies included submarines in their fleets, but these craft were relatively small, were considered of questionable military value, and generally were intended for coastal operations. The most significant exception to the concept...

The History Of PontusBook: Chapter I.Author: Rollins, CharlesDate: 1731Section I, Part I.This book includes the space of sixty years, which is three more than thereign of Mithridates, from the year of the world 3880 to the year 3943.Mithridates Ascends The Throne Of Pontus. Library Of Athens Carried...

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 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...

Ancient History Sourcebook:Proverbs from Ki-en-gir (Sumer), c. 2000 BCE 1. Whoever has walked with truth generates life. 2. Do not cut off the neck of that which has had its neck cut off. 3. That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance. 4. The destruction is from his own personal ...

Agriculture And The Origins Of Civilization: The Neolithic Revolution Edited By: Robert Guisepi There was nothing natural or inevitable about the development of agriculture. Because cultivation of plants requires more labor than hunting and gathering, we can assume that Stone Age humans gave up the...

A History of England England Breaks With The Roman Church, Destruction Of The Monasteries Author: Green, John Richard Part II. Their death was soon followed by that of More. The interval of imprisonment had failed to break his resolution, and the new statute sufficed to bring him to the block. With...