Tag: world history

GilgameshGilgamesh: Tablet 1 The one who saw all [Sha nagba imuru ]I will declare to the world,The one who knew all I will tell about[line missing]He saw the great Mystery, he knew the Hidden:He recovered the knowledge of all the times before the Flood.He journeyed beyond the distant, he journeyed b...

The First Plantation ColonyEarly Latin AmericaAuthor: Stearns, PeterDate: 1999The search for gold and silver was a constant theme in overseasexpansion, but there were other European demands the New World could alsosatisfy, which contributed to its growing involvement in the Western-dominatedworld ec...

Rise Of Methodism, Preaching Of The Wesleys And Of WhitefieldAuthor: Lecky, William E. H.Rise Of Methodism, Preaching Of The Wesleys And Of Whitefield1738 Next to the founders of the world's great religions, the principalfigures in religious history are the leaders of its new movements, thefounders ...

Founding Of The JesuitsAuthor: Taylor, IsaacFounding Of The Jesuits1540Toward the middle of the sixteenth century definite utterance began to begiven to a widespread feeling in the Church that the old monastic orders wereno longer fulfilling their purpose. Suggestions of new orders wereentertained b...

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...

Agincourt In pursuit of his claim to the French throne, Henry V of England, along with an army of about 11,000 men, invaded Normandy in August 1415. After capturing Harfleur in September, his forces were significantly diminished due to disease and battle casualties. Facing such losses, Henry decided...

The first serious battle of the American Civil War was fought in Virginia at a place known as Manassas Junction. The Union would come to remember it as Bull Run. Two great armies were converging on the farm of Wilmer McClean and he hurried home trying to reach safety before the fighting began. Wilme...

Vespasian b. Nov. 17?, AD 9, Reate [Rieti], Latiumd. June 24, 79 Latin in full CAESAR VESPASIANUS AUGUSTUS, original name TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS, Roman emperor (ad 69-79) who, though of humble birth, became the founder of the Flavian dynasty after the civil wars that followed Nero's death in 68....

The American Civil War, The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was perhaps the most dramatic protest action against slavery in United States history. The operations of clandestine escape networks began in the 1500s, and was later connected with organized abolitionist activity of the 1800...

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,...

Joshua ChamberlainLying in a hollow, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain writes home to his wife Fanny, describingthe Battle of Sharpsburg... "At about mid night I rode softly along examining our pickets, & whenever the horsestumbled -- whiz-- would come a bullet in the dark. All this morning, & at ...

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...