Tag: world history

ETRUSCANS A History of the Etruscan people including their cities, art, society, rulers and contributions to civilization By: Robert Guisepi 2002 Etruscans Archaeological Evidence The lack of Etruscan literature and the widely acknowledged bias and contradictory accounts of Greek and Roman writers ...

Ancient Rome The Grandeur of Rome, Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed by permission) "Re...

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 ...

German History More than 2,000 years ago a tall and fair-haired people roamed Europe. The ancestors of these fierce Teutonic warriors may have come from Northern Europe. The Romans later called them the Germani. As these Germanic tribes migrated south- and westward, they clashed with the Romans. In ...

Cuneiform Cuneiform was the system of writing used most extensively in the ancient Middle East. Cuneiform was employed for writing a number of languages from about the end of the 4th millennium BC until about the 1st century BC. Spread and development of cuneiform Although begun by the Sumerians, ev...

World War One, Kaiser Wilhelm II b. Jan. 27, 1859, Potsdam, near Berlind. June 4, 1941, Doorn, Neth. German IN FULL FRIEDRICH WILHELM VIKTOR ALBERT, German emperor (kaiser) and king of Prussia from 1888 to the end of World War I in 1918, known for his frequently militaristic manner as well as for ...

Calvinism Civilizations Past And Present "Here I Take My Stand" The Second Reformation While Anglicanism and Lutheranism were developing as state churches, other forms of Protestantism were emerging in western Europe. Calvinism was the most popular and most conservative of these, but there were ma...

Ancient Egypt, The significance of seasonal renewal in ancient Egypt Seasonal-renewal motifs in ancient Egypt were often incorporated into other aspects of sacred times--such as times of passage rites (e.g., ascension of the pharaoh to the throne), of death rites (e.g., the transformation of the dea...

A History of Ancient Greece Author: Robert GuisepiDate: 1998 AEGEAN CIVILIZATION The earliest civilization in Europe appeared on the coasts and islands of the Aegean Sea. This body of water, a branch of the Mediterranean Sea, is bounded by the Greek mainland on the west, Asia Minor (now Turkey) on t...

The Bipolar "North," 1945-1991 Author: Wallbank;Taylor;Bailkey;Jewsbury;Lewis;Hackett Date: 1992 Chinese Revolutions Between 1927 and 1937 Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese (Kuomintang) government initiated useful reforms in the cities which, had it not been for Japanese aggression in China, mi...

The saying "Skeleton in the Closet" is an urban myth that came from England well over a hundred years old. The story goes that a recently widowed woman went to work as a housekeeper for a married couple. Upon opening one of the closets she discovered a skeleton hanging on a hook. Shocked, she mentio...

American Civil War Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Warren W. Hassler, Jr.: Emeritus Professor of American History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Author of Commanders of the Army of the Potomac and others. Attempt on Washington, D.C While Sherman faced Atlanta, waiting for a chance ...