Tag: world history

Europe Transformed Author: Jewsbury, Lewis Date: 1992 Industrialization: The First Phase While Europe's "great men" plotted grand schemes to pursue their political and intellectual ambitions during the crisis of the Old Regime, French Revolution, and Napoleonic wars, obscure British inventors desi...

Document: Aristotle Criticizes CommunismAuthor: Wallbank, TaylorDate: 1992Aristotle foreshadows the failure of communist regimes in our world today.Next let us consider what should be our arrangements about property:should the citizens of the perfect state have their possessions incommon or not?...T...

The State The Earliest Forms Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow Part I. 1. Nature of the Question. - The probable origin of government is a question of fact, to be settled, not by conjecture, but by history. Some traces we can still discern of the history of primitive societies. As fragments of...

World War Two Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 Battle of the Bulge On Dec. 16, 1944, the Nazis launched a furious counterattack in the Ardennes. While overcast skies grounded Allied planes 24 German divisions drove a bulge 60 miles wide and 45 miles deep into the American lines. Part of this s...

Lydians, The History Of TheAuthor: Rollin, CharlesDate: 1731 The kings who first reigned over the Lydians, are by Herodotus calledAtyades; that is, descendants from Atys. ^1179 These, he tells us, derivedtheir origin from Lydus, the son of Atys; and Lydus gave the name of Lydiansto that people, who,...

Plutarch's Lives: Caius Gracchus Caius Gracchus, at first, either for fear of his brother's enemies,or designing to render them more odious to the people, absentedhimself from the public assemblies, and lived quietly in his ownhouse, as if he were not only reduced for the present to liveunambitiousl...

The American Civil War, Gettysburg 1863 Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 On June 24, 1863, General Robert E. Lee led his Confederate Army across the Potomac River and headed towards Pennsylvania. In response to this threat President Lincoln replaced his army commander, General Joseph Hooker, with Gene...

The Hittites A history of the Hittites including their cities, kings, art and contributions to civilization The Hittite empire to c. 1180 BC Principal archaeological sites of Anatolia and northern Syria to c. 1340 BC. It is possible that the branch of the Hittite royal family that gained control i...

THE REFORMATION Europe's Search For Stability One of the greatest of all revolutions was the 16th-century religious revolt known as the Reformation. This stormy, often brutal, conflict separated the Christians of Western Europe into Protestants and Catholics. So far-reaching were the results of the ...

Indo-Europeans to the Middle Ages Indo-European Invasions triggered by Flooding of Black Sea 5600 B.C. Indo-Europeans (Aryan language) Nomadic tribes from Steppes of AsiaHerders and GrazersWarfare using horsesSwept into Old Europe, Middle East, India starting about 5,000 BCReligion of war and male...

An April Fool's Tale? April Fool's Day During the 16th century, the calendar had become so far off that Pope Gregory VIII decided to order a recalculation of the correct dates. Furthermore, the practice of celebrating the new year would no longer begin on April 1 as had been the custom but instead ...

LAMENT FOR UR For the gods have abandoned us like migrating birds they have gone Ur is destroyed, bitter is its lament The country's blood now fills its holes like hot bronze in a mould Bodies dissolve like fat in the sun. Our temple is destroyed Smoke lies on our city like a shroud. blood flows as ...