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The Middle Ages Date: 1992 During the decline of the Roman Empire, the migrations of a strong, rude people began to change the life of Europe. They were the German barbarians, or Teutonic tribes, who swept across the Rhine and the Danube into the empire. There they accepted Christianity. The union o...

Caesar(died 44 B.C.E.)By PlutarchWritten 75 A.C.E.Translated by John DrydenAfter Sylla became master of Rome, he wished to make Caesar put away his wife Cornelia, daughter of Cinna, the late sole ruler of the commonwealth, but was unable to effect it either by promises or intimidation, and so conten ...

The American Civil War, Frederick Douglass Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002One of the most influential Americans of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly for the freedom of all Americans. He was amongst the first to speak out in favor of Woman's rights. Yet, few people today are aware...

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 ...

In 1925, a death certificate from a Canadian doctor in Edmonton, Canada, gave the cause of death as 'talked to death'. He claimed that his patient would probably have made a recovery if he had not been bothered by relatives anxious about the content of his will. ***** In 1761, a peddler in Oxford, E...

Persia Darius I Author: Grote, George Darius I, called the Great, tells the story of the overthrow of Bardiya and of the first year of his own rule in detail in his famous royal inscription cut on a rock face at the base of Bisitun mountain, a few miles east of modern Kermanshah. Six leading Achaeme...

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...

GRANT, ULYSSES S. (1822-1885). 18th President of the U.S. (1869-1877). Nicknamed"Unconditional Surrender" Grant after cooly demanding "immediate and unconditionalsurrender" at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi (May 18 - July 4, 1863; surrendered on July4, 1863). 29,000 rebel troops surrendered, th...

Industrialization And Western Global HegemonyIndustrial Rivalries And The Partition Of The World,Author: Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 2004Industrial Rivalries And The Partition Of The World, c. 1870-1914The spread of the Industrial Revolution from the British Isles toContinental Europe and North America...

The Postclassical Era Date: 1992 The Byzantine Empire unfolded initially as part of the greater Roman Empire and then, as this framework shattered with Roman decline, took on a life of its own particularly from the reign of the emperor Justinian onward. During its formative period, which lasted thr...

De Soto Discovers The Mississippi Author: Abbott, John S. C. De Soto Discovers The Mississippi 1541From the eastern coast of Florida the Spaniards made early explorations of the interior until they reached the Mississippi River. Florida, which was discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513, was soon v...

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