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A History of Ancient Greece, TROY The Glory That Was Greece Author: Jewsbury, Lewis Date: 1992 Greek TROIA, also called ILIOS, OR ILION, Latin TROIA, TROJA, OR ILIUM, was an ancient city in northwestern Anatolia that holds an enduring place in both literature and archaeology. The legend of the Troj...

A History Of France The emergence of France History Of Europe During The Middle AgesAuthor: Hallam, Henry While this page contains a general overview of the beginnings of France, the selections on the left provide a more detailed accountA General Overview From the 9th to the 11th century the peoples...

Ancient Egypt, Relief sculpture and painting For Egyptians the decoration of tomb walls with reliefs or painted scenes provided some certainty of the perpetuation of life; in a temple, similarly, it was believed that mural decoration magically ensured the performance of important ceremonies and rein...

World Civilizations: The Origins Of Civilizations Human Life In The Era Of Hunters And Gatherers By the end of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age in 12,000 B.C., humans had evolved in physical appearance and mental capacity to roughly the same level as today. Our species, Homo sapiens, had been com...

Nomadic Challenges And Civilized Responses Edited By: R. A.Guisepi The Rise And Spread Of Pastoral Nomadism The domestication of animals also made possible an alternative basis for the support and organization of human societies - nomadic pastoralism. We do not know when genuinely nomadic societie...

SHERMAN, William Tecumseh (1820-91). Ranked second only to General Ulysses S. Grant as the greatest Northern commander in the American Civil War, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was a master of modern warfare. Like Grant, Sherman was born in Ohio when it was a frontier state. He was named Tecumseh for...

James Longstreet b. Jan. 8, 1821, Edgefield District, S.C., U.S.d. Jan. 2, 1904, Gainesville, Ga. Longstreet was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1842), he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded from ...

RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The International History Project The Reconstruction Period, an Overview (1865-77) Reconstruction was a period in U.S. history during and after the American Civil War in which attempts were made to solve the political, social, and econ...

The Hittites A history of the Hittites including their cities, kings, art and contributions to civilization The rise and fall of the Hittites The Hittite occupation of Anatolia: The first suggestion of the Hittites' presence in central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age is the occurrence in the K...

The Akkadians Portions of this work contributed by Robert A. Guisepi and F. Roy Williams, University of California Akkad from 2350 to 2000 BC There are several reasons for taking the year 2350 as a turning point in the history of Mesopotamia. For the first time, an empire arose on Mesopotamian soil....

A great task faced Marcus Aurelius when he became the Roman emperor in AD 161, as successor to his uncle, Emperor Antonius Pius. Generations of luxury had made the patricians, or nobles, weak and selfish. The middle class was disappearing, and the working class was being reduced to a state of slaver...

Thomas Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine To the President of the United States (James Monroe)Monticello, October 24, 1823 DEAR SIR, -- The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us...