Tag: world history

The slavery controversy and the Civil War By the mid-19th century, most white Georgians, like most Southerners, had come to view slavery as economically indispensable to their society. When the Civil War came, most white Southerners, slave owner or not, joined in the defense of their common heritage...

The Origins Of Civilizations The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The Middle East By 4000 B.C.: The Causes Of Civilization As you have seen, one reason that civilization first appeared in the Middle East was because agriculture had taken h...

Goths Goths, ancient Teutonic people, who in the 3rd to the 6th century AD were an important power in the Roman world. The Goths were the first Germanic peoples to become Christians. According to the 6th-century Gothic historian Jordanes, the Goths came from Sweden across the Baltic Sea to the basi...

Sumerian Homes The earliest Sumerian houses were built of bundles of reeds but after cities began to develop, sun baked mud brick was used. These mud brick houses were more permanent and larger than the reed dwellings.Reed built house The houses in the cities were very close together with most shari...

A History of Ancient Greece Religions Of GreeceAuthor: Foot Moore, GeorgeDate: 1913Religion In Early GreeceThe Aegaean Civilisation - The Hellenic Migrations - Prehellenic andGreek Religion - The Land - The Gods - Zeus - Artemis - Apollo - Hermes -Athena - Aphrodite - Hera - Hephaistos - Ares - Othe...

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Caesar, Gaius Julius (100-44 BC), Roman general and statesman, who laid the foundations of the Roman imperial system. Caesar(died 44 B.C.E.) By Plutarch Written 75 A.C.E. After Sylla became master of Rome, he wished to make Caesar put away his wife Cornelia, daughter of Cinna, the late sole ruler of ...

THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION: To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Conne...

First historical personalities The specifically political events in Mesopotamia after the flourishing of the archaic culture of Uruk cannot be pinpointed. Not until about 2700 BC does the first historical personality appear--historical because his name, Enmebaragesi (Me-baragesi), was preserved in l...

Alexander the Great Unless Alexander was himself ultimately responsible for his father's assassination (an implausible view, but one already canvassed in antiquity), he cannot have foreseen the moment of his own succession to a father who, though grizzled, was in the prime of life. His reaction to t...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was GreeceAuthor: Jewsbury, LewisDate: 1992 Alcibiades (450?-404 BC) When the philosopher Socrates was tried and convicted in 399 BC for corrupting the young men of Athens, the judges may have had Alcibiades in mind. Intelligent, handsome, and charming, Alc...

The Ancient City of Jericho Through out much of her history, the ancient town of Jericho has been associated with walls. The most notable story of Jericho is that of Joshua, who according to Biblical accounts, caused the circumvallate walls to "come tumbling down." The natural walls surrounding Jeri...