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In Maturity, Eighth To Eleventh Centuries The history of the empire, after the greatest Arab onslaughts had been faced and their results assimilated, offered a dizzying series of weak and strong emperors, periods of vigor alternating with seeming decay. Arab pressure continued. Conquest of the isla...

Persia The International History Project, 2004 Edited By: Robert Guisepi The History Of the Ancient Persian Empire From Rise To Fall A history of the Persians including their empire, rulers like Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes as well as their cities, rise and fall Persia, conventional European designatio...

Spaniards And Portuguese: Background To Conquest The peoples who inhabited the Iberian peninsula had long lived at the frontier of Mediterranean Europe. The peninsula had known many inhabitants - Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Goths - and during the Middle Ages it had become a cultural fron...

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The American Civil War, Jefferson Davis Inaugural Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, Friends and Fellow-Citizens:- CALLED to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the provisional government which you have instituted, I approach the discharge of the ...

Ancient History Sourcebook:Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Divus Titus, c. 110 C.E. [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 Romans and Hellenes; thus, for ex...

Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra Written by Edith Hamilton, W.W. Norton Inc. 1986 now in the Library of Congress and reprinted by permission b. 69 BCd. Aug. 30, 30 BC, Alexandria "She captivated the two greatest Romans of her day, and because of the third she destroyed herself." Cleopatra Ptolemy was the d...

A History of England Alfred the Great (848?–899) The course of English history would have been very different without King Alfred, renowned both as a statesman and a warrior. He is justly called "the Great." The Saxon Kingdoms and Alfred's Rise During Alfred's time, England consisted of four small S...

The Origins Of Civilizations The Agrarian Revolution And The Birth Of Civilization Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Agriculture And The Origins Of Civilization: The Neolithic RevolutionThere was nothing natural or inevitable about the development of agriculture. Because cultivation of plant...

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

Saladin Takes Jerusalem From The Christians Author: Cox, Sir George W. 1187 Eight days after their conquest of the Holy City, in 1099, the first crusaders proceeded to establish the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, with Godfrey of Bouillon as its first king. On the death of Godfrey, in 1100, his broth...

The Huns Huns, nomadic Asian people, probably of Turkish, Tataric, or Ugrian origins, who spread from the Caspian steppes (the areas north of the Caspian Sea) to make repeated incursions into the Roman Empire during the 4th and 5th centuries AD.During the 3rd century BC some of the earlier segments ...