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The Amorites The Amorites were members of an ancient Semitic-speaking people who dominated the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine from about 2000 to 1600 BC. In the oldest cuneiform sources (c. 2400–c. 2000 BC), the Amorites were equated with the West, though their true place of origin was...

Embark on a compelling journey through the annals of history as we unveil a timeline of significant world changes. From monumental shifts in politics and technology to cultural revolutions, join us in tracing the evolution of our global landscape through transformative eras. 20th Century Upheavals (...

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...

Panama Canal Author: Low, A. Maurice Panama Canal By A. Maurice Low No one can look at a map of the Western World without thinking of the great and obvious advantage that would result to commerce if the isthmus could be cut by a ship-canal. From the time when Balboa (not Cortes, as the poet has it...

Dante Composes The "Divina Commedia"Author: Church, Richard WilliamDante Composes The "Divina Commedia"1300 - 1318Out of what may be called the civil and religious storm-and-stress periodthrough which the Middle passed into the modern age, there came a greatliterary foregleam of the new life upon wh...

Huns And Their Western MigrationAuthor: MarcellinusHuns And Their Western MigrationA.D. 374-376IntroductionThe Huns, whose incursions into Europe constituted the first "yellowperil," were a nomadic Mongolian race. In the fourth century before Christthey successfully invaded China. From the country, ...

The End Of The Early Civilization Period The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Date: 1992 The proliferation of spin-off civilizations brought important innovations within the framework set by the achievements of the great progenitors in Mesopotamia and Egypt. The simplified alp...

Ancient Cave Art Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France 15,000-18,000 BC Approximately 20,000 years ago, humans in Europe lived primarily as hunters. Out of this stone age culture, the mysteries of existence were becoming important and the result was the birth of mythology. Humankind sought to understand the wo...

World War Two Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 The Holocaust We played, we laughed, we were loved. We were ripped from the arms of our parents and thrown into the fire. We were nothing more then children. We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, teachers, rabbis, wives, doctors, mothers. ...

The Grandeur That Was Rome Page Three Date: 2002The Late Republic, 133-30 B.C.The century following 133 B.C., during which Rome's frontiers reached theEuphrates and the Rhine, witnessed the failure of the Republic to solve theproblems that were the by-products of the acquisition of an empire.Effects...

LAMENT FOR UR For the gods have abandoned us like migrating birds they have gone Ur is destroyed, bitter is its lament The country's blood now fills its holes like hot bronze in a mould Bodies dissolve like fat in the sun. Our temple is destroyed Smoke lies on our city like a shroud. blood flows as ...

The American Civil War, Confederate States of America Edited by: Robert Guisepi The Confederate States of America was also called the CONFEDERACY and during the American Civil War, composed the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860-61, carrying on all the affairs of a...