Tag: world history

The American Revolution, continuedWithin a decade after passage of the Stamp Act, Britain faced openrebellion in its American colonies. The resulting conflict was also a civilwar, with many colonists remaining loyal to the crown. Indeed, one of BenjaminFranklin's sons was a Loyalist leader and the l...

Mesopotamia 9000 - 500 B.C B.C.HISTORYCULTUREEarly Farming Communities 9000-5000 9000Beginning cultivation of wild wheat and barley and domestication of dogs and sheep; inaugurating of change from food gathering to food producing culture - Karim Shahir in Zagros foothills.7000At Jarmo, oldest known ...

THE GREAT HYMN TO SHAMASH Among the longest and most beautiful of the hymns that have come down to us in cuneiform, this ranks as one of the best products of Mesopotamian religious writing. 21. You climb to the mountains surveying the earth, 22. You suspend from the heavens the circle of the lands....

Better Angels At his inauguration on a cloudy but mild March 4, Lincoln doffed his black silk hat prior to delivering his inaugural address and...hesitated. Where to put it? Two men reached for it. One was a young reporter named Henry Watterson, who in just a few weeks would be a Confederate soldier...

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...

The Battle of the Alamo Stephen L. Hardin The siege and the final assault on the Alamo in 1836 constitute the most celebrated military engagement in Texas history. The battle was conspicuous for the large number of illustrious personalities among its combatants. These included Tennessee congressman ...

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Author: William Kehen, PhD. Columbia University 1996 ELECTORAL COLLEGE In the United States presidential election of 1876, the Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, received 4,284,020 votes; the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes received 4,036,572 votes; but Hayes became pres...

Document: Aristotle Criticizes CommunismAuthor: Wallbank, TaylorDate: 1992Aristotle foreshadows the failure of communist regimes in our world today.Next let us consider what should be our arrangements about property:should the citizens of the perfect state have their possessions incommon or not?...T...

The Hundred Years War The International History ProjectThe Hundred Years War was an intermittent struggle between England and France in the 14th-15th century over a series of disputes, including the question of the legitimate succession to the French crown. The struggle involved several generations ...

Ancient Egypt, The sacred legitimation of kings The coronation or ascent to the throne by a king is an official act that most clearly shows the sacral character of the kingdom. Until the 20th century two characteristics in the coronations of kings and emperors remained: through ascent to the throne,...

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Author: Wallbank; Taylor; Bailkey; Jewsbury; Lewis; Hackett Date: 1992 Industrialization: The First Phase Most products people in the industrialized nations use today are turned out swiftly by the process of mass production, by people (and sometimes, robots) working on assemb...

Ancient Rome Letter Home of a Roman "University" Student, 44 BCE 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 (...