Tag: world history

A History of Ancient Greece PELOPONNESIAN WAR. Ancient Greece in 431 BC was not a nation. It was a large collection of rival city-states located on the Greek mainland, on the west coast of Asia Minor, and on the many islands of the Aegean Sea. Most of the city-states had become allied with one or...

Beginning And Progress Of The RenaissanceAuthor: Symonds, John AddingtonFourteenth To Sixteenth CenturyThe new birth of resurrection known as the "Renaissance" is usually considered to have begun in Italy in the fourteenth century, though some writers would date its origin from the reign of Frederic...

1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.. Maps of Pearl Harbor The United States government first obtained exclusive use of ...

World War One, Passchendaele The third major battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, took place between July and November, 1917. General Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commander in Chief in France, was encouraged by the gains made at the offensive at Messines in June 1917. Haig wa...

German History More than 2,000 years ago a tall and fair-haired people roamed Europe. The ancestors of these fierce Teutonic warriors may have come from Northern Europe. The Romans later called them the Germani. As these Germanic tribes migrated south- and westward, they clashed with the Romans. In ...

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...

Ancient Sumerian/Mesopotamian Laws 1. BE it enacted forever and for all future days: If a son say to his father, "You are not my father," he [the father] can cut off his [the son's] locks, make him a slave and sell him for money. If a son say to his mother, "You are not my mother," she can cut off h...

Two important events marked the reign of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome. He made Christianity a lawful religion in Roman society, and he founded the city of Constantinople, the brilliant capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Flavius Valerius Constantinus was born in the Ro...

Persia, Conquests Of Cyrus The Great Author: Grote, George Conquests Of Cyrus The Great B.C. 538 Introduction On the destruction of Nineveh three great Powers still stood on the stage of history, being bound together by the strong ties of a mutually supporting alliance. These were Media, Lydia, a ...

Africa And The Africans In The Age Of The Atlantic Slave TradeAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.;Adas, Michael;Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992The African DiasporaThe slave trade was the means by which the history of the Americas andAfrica became linked and a principal way in which African societies were drawni...

Terrorism In Early AmericaThe U.S. Wages War Against The BarbaryStates To End International Blackmail and Terrorism By Thomas JewettThe events of September 11, 2001 shocked the United States out of its complacency concerning its invulnerability. Even though the U.S. has the most powerful military ma...

Judas Maccabaeus Liberates JudeaAuthor: JosephusJudas Maccabaeus Liberates JudeaB.C. 165IntroductionThe noble-minded Judas Maccabaeus was the hero of Jewish independence -the deliverer of Judea and Judaism during the bloody persecutions of theSyrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, in the second century B....