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The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part VThe justiza or justiciary of Aragon has been treated by some writers as asort of anomalous magistrate, created originally as an intermediate powerbetween the king and people, to watch over the exercise of royal authority.But...

Library Of Alexandria Founded.Author: Rollin, CharlesDate: 1731 Ptolemy Soter Resigns His Kingdom To His Son Ptolemy Philadelphus.Ptolemy Soter, the son of Lagus, after a reign of twenty years in Egypt,with the title of king, and of nearly thirty-nine from the death of Alexander,was desirous of tra...

Beginnings Of ChinaAuthor: Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992A Bend In The River And The Beginnings Of ChinaThe region that gave birth to Chinese civilization was less promisingthan the once-fertile Indus plains. The Yellow River, from its source on theTibetan plateau, turns and bends its way through the...

LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION Ambrose, S.E. Undaunted Courage (Simon & Schuster, 1996). United States citizens knew little about western North America when the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out in 1804. Twelve years earlier Captain Robert Gray, an American navigator, had sailed up the mouth of the...

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 One, Otto Dix You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. No knowledge! I do not want to know him at all, I only want to see what is there, on the outside. The inner follows by itself. It is mirrored in the visibleb. Dec. 2, 1891, Untermhaus, Thuringia,...

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 ...

Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal At Zama And Subjugates Carthage Author: Livy Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal At Zama And Subjugates Carthage B.C. 202 Introduction Sprung from a colony of Tyre, Carthage, rounded about B.C. 800, rapidly developed, through a wonderful system of colonization, int...

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...

The State The Objects Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow The Objects Of Government 1514. Character of the Subject. - Political interest and controversy centre nowhere more acutely than in the question, What are the proper objects of government? This is one of those difficult questions upon whi...

Frederick The Great Seizes SilesiaAuthor: Smyth, WilliamFrederick The Great Seizes SilesiaMaria Theresa Appeals To The Hungarians - 1740Maria Theresa, the "Empress Queen," stands out among the most heroic andromantic figures of the eighteenth century. She was the daughter of CharlesVI, last of the r...

Mesopotamia Edited By: Robert Guisepi Mesopotamia is a region, not a country. Refer to the individual Peoples that made up Mesopotamia; the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and to some degree the Hittites, Phoenicians and PersiansIn the narrow sense, Mesopotamia is the area b...