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The Indus Valley The Indus Civilization, Character and significance And The Genesis Of South Asian Civilization Author: Principal sites of the Indus Civilization. While the Indus (or Harappan) Civilization may be considered the culmination of a long process indigenous to the Indus Valley, a number ...

Gothic Art And Architecture Andrew Henry Robert Martindale: Professor of Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1974–95. Author of Gothic Art and others. A history of the Gothic period of Art and Architecture Gothic Art is concerned with the painting, sculpture, architecture, and...

Peace Of Westphalia, War Of The FrondeAuthor: Hassall, ArthurPeace Of Westphalia, War Of The Fronde1648By the arbitrary impositions of the minister, Cardinal Mazarin, aninsurrection was provoked in France whereby Mazarin was temporarily drivenfrom power. This struggle is sometimes called the "War of...

The Middle Ages Date: 1992 Government In Germany And Italy When the Carolingian kingdom of the East Franks proved incapable of coping with the attacks of Magyar horsemen in the late ninth and early tenth centuries, the task was taken over by the tribal leaders (or dukes) of the Saxons, Bavarians, ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest(1821-1877) With no formal military training, Nathan Bedford Forrest became one of the leading cavalry figures of the Civil War. The native Tennesseean had amassed a fortune, which he estimated at $1,500,000, as a slave trader and plantation owner before enlisting in the Confed...

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Author: William Kehen, PhD. Columbia University 1996 ELECTORAL COLLEGE In the United States presidential election of 1876, the Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, received 4,284,020 votes; the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes received 4,036,572 votes; but Hayes became pres...

A History of England Bede: Conversion of England The Arrival in Kent of the missionaries sent By Gregory the Great (597) In the year of our Lord 582, Maurice, the fifty-fourth emperor from Augustus, ascended the throne and reigned twenty-one years. In the tenth year of his reign, Gregory, a man reno...

The Roman civilization was one of the most influential in world history, and its impact can still be felt today in areas such as politics, architecture, language, and law. The Roman Republic, which was established in 509 BCE, was the first known republic in the world, and it laid the foundation for ...

Cultural Expression During The Middle Ages During the entire Middle Ages Latin served as an international means of communication. This common tongue provided much of the cohesion of the Middle Ages, for virtually all the crucial communications of the church, governments, and schools were in Latin. B...

Description of Huns and Goths About AD 390 By Ammianus Marcellinus Source: Robinson, James, ed. Readings in European History. Vol. I. Boston & New York: Ginn & Co., 1904. Ammianus Marcellinus, a retired Roman soldier, wrote his descriptions of the Huns and Goths more than a decade after 376...

Manifest Destiny History World International 2004 Edited By: R. A. Guisepi In July 1845, amidst all the agitation over getting Texas into the Union, editor John L. O'Sullivan of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review wrote an editorial in which he denounced other nations who had "the avow...

Huns And Their Western MigrationAuthor: MarcellinusHuns And Their Western MigrationA.D. 374-376IntroductionThe Huns, whose incursions into Europe constituted the first "yellowperil," were a nomadic Mongolian race. In the fourth century before Christthey successfully invaded China. From the country, ...