Tag: world history

Galileo Overthrows Ancient Philosophy Author: Lodge, Sir Oliver Galileo Overthrows Ancient Philosophy The Telescope And Its Discoveries, A.D. 1610 When the Copernican system of astronomy was published to the world (1543) it had to encounter, as all capital theories and discoveries in science have do...

Rise of Civilizations and Empires in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley By Maghan Keita Historians often write of world history in terms of the development of civilizations defined by a characteristic empire. What defines an empire and what does the building of empire suggest? The regions of ...

The American Civil War, Belle Boyd (1843 - 1900) Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 One of the most famous of Confederate spies, Belle Boyd served the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Born in Martinsburg-now part of West Virginia-she operated her spying operations from her fathers hotel in F...

Australian ConfederationAuthor: Grey, J. GrattanAustralian Confederation1901It has always been a question with geographers whether to class Australiaas an island or as a continent, some arguing that it is too small for the one,and others that it is too large for the other. However that may be, itsis...

The Renaissance Beginning And Progress Of The Renaissance Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Fourteenth To Sixteenth Century Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. The Italian Renaissance had placed human beings once more in the center of life's stage and infused thought and...

The Agrarian Revolution and the Birth of Civilization Authors: Peter N. Stearns, Michael Adas, Stuart B. SchwartzDate: 1992 Human Society and Daily Life at the End of the Old Stone Age Most human societies during the Old Stone Age consisted of small groups migrating in pursuit of game animals and wi...

History of the 101st Airborne Division World War Two "Rendezvous with Destiny" The 101st Airborne Division was activated August 16, 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana and placed under the command of Major General William C. Lee. At the activation ceremony, MG Lee observed, "The 101st...has no history...

Americas On The Eve Of InvasionAuthor: Michael SchwartzDate: 1992 Post classical Mesoamerica, A.D. 1000-1500 The collapse of Teotihuacan in central Mexico and the abandonment of theclassical Maya cities in the 8th century A.D. signaled a significant politicaland cultural change in Mesoamerica. The c...

The Peoples Of The AmericasAuthor: Stearns, Peter NDate: 1992The Archaic CulturesBy about 9000 B.C. small bands of hunters were widely dispersed over theAmerican continents. Changes in climate with the ending of the last Ice Agemay lay behind changes in diet and ways of life. The disappearance of la...

A History of Ancient Greece Hellenistic PoliticsGreece And The Hellenistic WorldAuthor: R.A. GuisepiDate: 1992 The collapse of Athens opened the way for Spartan domination of the Greekmainland. During the war, Sparta had accepted Persian help, particularly onthe seas, and in return it handed over co...

The American Civil War, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Crash of Hell Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Excerpts From Chamberlain's Writings Ten minutes had not passed. Suddenly the thunder of artillery and crash of iron that had all the while been roaring over the Round Top crests stopped short. We u...

The Guti There is very little known about the people called the Guti. The Guti were a mountain people of ancient Mesopotamia who lived primarily around Hamadan in the central Zagros Range. The Guti were a strong political force throughout the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC, especially about 2230, when th...