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The Iberian Golden AgeEuropean Expansion: Exploration And Colonization, 1400-1650Author: Allen PikermanDate: 2002IntroductionDuring the fifteenth century, Europe began a process of unprecedentedexpansion that by 1650 had affected all areas of the world. This was actuallypart of a global tendency tow...

Holy Roman Empire, TheCareer Of Charlemagne Author:Guizot, Francois P. G."By the sword and the cross," Charlemagne (Charles the Great) became master of Western Europe. It was falling into decay when Charlemagne became joint king of the Franks in 768. Except in the monasteries, people had all but for ...

The American Civil War, George Armstrong Custer (1839 - 1876)Edited by: Robert Guisepi2002 Thank you to Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War for this fine work.Although better known for his Indian fighting, George Custer compiled a creditable record as a cavalry leader in the latter part of the ...

woman suffrage Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and Republican Rome, as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century. When the franchise was widened, as it was in the United Kingdom in 1832, women continued to be denied all voting rights. ...

The Race Up the Round Top In another instant, a staff officer from [Maj.] General [G.K.] Warren rushed up to find [Maj. Gen. George] Sykes, our Corps Commander, to beg him to send a brigade at least, to seize Little Round Top before the enemy's surging waves should overwhelm it .Other supplications ...

Ancient Rome Assassination Of Caesar 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) "R...

Mesopotamia The International History Project Date: 2003 Mesopotamia is a region, not a country. The emergence of Mesopotamian civilization The Late Neolithic Period and the Chalcolithic Period. Between about 10,000 BC and the genesis of large permanent settlements, the following stages of developme...

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.The earliest attested documents in cuneiform were written in Sumerian, t...

The American Civil War: A. P. Hill Edited by: Robert GuisepiPublished: 2002 Overview Born: November 9, 1825, Culpeper, Virginia, U.S.Died: April 2, 1865, Petersburg, Virginia, U.S. A. P. Hill was a Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War, renowned for his leadership of the "Light Division," co...

The American Civil War, Clara Barton Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Twenty years before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton came to the aid of soldiers fighting in the Civil War. At the war's outbreak, Barton worked as a U.S. Patent Office clerk and collected provisions and medical supplie...

World War One, Somme The battle of the Somme was another in a long line of ill conceived battles. Many Generals were still convinced that a decisive battle was possible. The attack would be proceeded by a massive artillery bombardment which was designed to break the German lines. "You won't even nee...

Saladin Takes Jerusalem From The Christians Author: Cox, Sir George W. 1187 Eight days after their conquest of the Holy City, in 1099, the first crusaders proceeded to establish the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, with Godfrey of Bouillon as its first king. On the death of Godfrey, in 1100, his broth...