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Rise Of The Hanseatic LeagueAuthor: Denicke, H.Translation: Joseph SohnPart II.The Hansa ships were usually round-bellied, high-boarded craft with onemast, and flew the pennant of their home port. They were comparatively broadand built of heavy planks, and could easily be transformed into war vessel...

VIKINGS Late in the 8th century AD strange ships began appearing in the bays along the coasts of Europe. Some of these ships were quite long for that era. They were strongly built of oak, and from 40 to 60 oarsmen sat on the rowers' benches. Each ship had a single mast with a square sail that was o...

Livingstone's African Discoveries Author Livingstone, David; Hughes, Thomas By Thomas Hughes Before the middle of 1852 Livingstone was ready to start on the journey which resulted in the opening of routes from Central Africa to the West and East coasts; but the way was still beset with difficultie...

Ancient Rome The Grandeur of Rome, 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) "Re...

The Sumerian king list: translation (In the following translation, mss. are referred to by the sigla used by Vincente 1995; from those listed there, mss. Fi, Go, P6, and WB 62 were not used; if not specified by a note, numerical data come from ms. WB.) After the kingship descended from heaven, the k...

American Civil War Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Warren W. Hassler, Jr.: Emeritus Professor of American History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Author of Commanders of the Army of the Potomac and others. Attempt on Washington, D.C While Sherman faced Atlanta, waiting for a chance ...

Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra Written by Edith Hamilton, W.W. Norton Inc. 1986 now in the Library of Congress and reprinted by permission b. 69 BCd. Aug. 30, 30 BC, Alexandria "She captivated the two greatest Romans of her day, and because of the third she destroyed herself." Cleopatra Ptolemy was the d...

Sumerian Territorial States More difficult than describing its external relations is the task of shedding light on the internal structure of a state like Lagash. For the first time, a state consisting of more than a city with its surrounding territory came into being, because aggressively minded rul...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Date: 1992 Ancient Greece and Ethics Early Greece was the birthplace of Western philosophical ethics. The ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who flourished in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, will be discussed in the next section. The sudden...

The American Civil War, Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887) Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 A noted social reformer, Dix became the Union's Superintendent of Female Nurses during the Civil War. The soft spoken yet autocratic crusader had spent more than 20 years working for improved treatment of mentally ill ...

Persia The Rise of Persia Under Cyrus II Author: Grote, George The ruling dynasty of the Persians settled in Fars in southwestern Iran (possibly the Parsumash of the later Assyrian records) traced its ancestry back to an eponymous ancestor, Haxamanish, or Achaemenes. There is no historical evidence ...

Controversies About WomenAuthor: Stearns, Peter N Date: 1992Document: Controversies About WomenChanges in family structure and some shifts in the economic roles ofwomen, plus ambivalent Protestant promptings about women that emphasized thefamily context but urged affection and respect between wives ...