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The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IIA more fortunate period began with the accession of Henry. [A.D.1368.] His own reign was hardly disturbed by any rebellion; and though hissuccessors, John I. [A.D. 1379] and Henry III. [A.D. 1390], were notaltogether so unm...

History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians Book: Part II: The Rise Of Assyria And Its Struggles With Kassite Babylonia Author: Godspeed, George Times Of Tiglathpileser I. 1100 B.C. 133. The splendid extension of Assyrian authority to the northwest, achieved by Shalmaneser I. and his successors (sect....

World War One, Between the two world wars A strong impulse toward the development of international studies in universities came in the 1920s. New centers, institutes, and schools devoted to teaching and research in international relations were founded. Courses were organized and general textbooks ...

Description of Huns and Goths About AD 390 By Ammianus Marcellinus Source: Robinson, James, ed. Readings in European History. Vol. I. Boston & New York: Ginn & Co., 1904. Ammianus Marcellinus, a retired Roman soldier, wrote his descriptions of the Huns and Goths more than a decade after 376...

The Origin And Progress Of TragedyAuthor: Rollin, CharlesDate: 1731The Origin And Progress Of Tragedy Poets Who Excelled In It At Athens; Aeschylus, Sophocles, And EuripidesThere had been many tragic and comic poets before Thespis; but as theyhad made no alteration in the original rude form of this ...

July 4th Thomas Jefferson wrote well but spoke so softly that it was extremely difficult to understand him. Many times during the Continental Congress, men would call out to “Speak up man.” John Adams however, was a most eloquent speaker and consequently, along with Benjamin Franklin the two were a...

The Ancient City of Jericho Through out much of her history, the ancient town of Jericho has been associated with walls. The most notable story of Jericho is that of Joshua, who according to Biblical accounts, caused the circumvallate walls to "come tumbling down." The natural walls surrounding Jeri...

Civilization: Drawbacks And Limits The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Because civilizations are by definition well organized compared to the societies that preceded them, it is not surprising that almost all history is about what has happened to civilized societies. We know most...

Portuguese ahead of other Europeans in Africa and Asia Portuguese Maritime TradePortuguese inland in Africa in the early 1500sExpansion and Slave Trading from Luanda Portuguese voyages: places with first arrival dates Portuguese Expansion in the early 1500s By 1500, the Portuguese had already sailed...

Unforgotten Sons of God They did not know it themselves--those boys of ours whose remembered faces in every home should be cherished symbols of the true, for life or death--what were their lofty deeds of body, mind, heart, soul, on that tremendous day. Unknown--but kept! The earth itself shall be i...

World War Two, Adolf Hitler Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 (1889-1945). The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's ch...

The Race to Build the Bomb At the start of World War Two the only countries capable of making the bomb were Germany, Japan and the United States. When it came to doing atomic research and development Germany had a good organization. Japan had a good organization. The United States had a mess. But......