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A History of Ancient Greece Sparta In ancient Greece, the great rival of Athens was Sparta. The city-state and its surrounding territory were located on the Peloponnesus, a peninsula southwest of Athens. Sparta (also called Lacedaemon) was the capital of the district of Laconia. From the vigorous i...

Description of Huns and Goths About AD 390 By Ammianus Marcellinus Source: Robinson, James, ed. Readings in European History. Vol. I. Boston & New York: Ginn & Co., 1904. Ammianus Marcellinus, a retired Roman soldier, wrote his descriptions of the Huns and Goths more than a decade after 376...

Ancient Sumeria Primary Author: Robert A. Guisepi Portions of this work Contributed By:F. Roy Willis of the University of California 1980 and 2003 The History of Ancient Sumeria including its cities, kings and religions Now, I swear by the sun god Utu on this very day -- and my younger brothers shal...

World War One Tragic War And Futile Peace: World War I Edited By: Robert Guisepi 2001 World War I (The Great War) from its beginning to the Armistice including the Marne, Somme, Verdun, gas, trench war, poems and music "What is this war? It is mud, trenches, blood, rats, lice, bombs, pain, barbed wi...

Africa: The Spread of Civilization in Africa Various AuthorsEdited By: R. A. GuisepiDate: 2001 Africa is a continent of great size, almost 12 million square miles or about three times the size of the United States. Most of it lies in the tropics, and although we often think of Africa in terms of its...

TUBMAN, Harriet (1820?-1913) A runaway slave herself, Harriet Tubman helped so many blacks escape to freedom that she became known as the "Moses of her people." During the Civil War she served the Union Army as a nurse, cook, scout, and spy. Harriet Tubman was born Harriet Ross about 1820 on a plant...

The Magna Carta Preamble: John , by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to the archbishop, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justiciaries, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his bailiffs and liege subjects, greetings....

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi The Bible Author: Ryan Cameroon Many religions have a literature that serves as a foundation for belief and practice among their followers. For Judaism and Christianity such a literature is found in the Bible--a term derived from the Greek meaning...

Battle of Lexington and Concord On April 18, 1775 British General Thomas Gage in Boston was ordered to seize a cache of arms in Concord, a small town 15 miles away, and if possible, to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, two of the more outspoken rebel leaders. To accomplish this, Gage assembled ...

CONSTANTINE THE GREAT (AD 280?-337). 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 Val...

Sam Watkins Confederate soldier who wrote of his experiences in the American Civil War. The following is an excerpt from 'Company Aytch' A private soldier is but an automaton, a machine that works by the command of a good, bad, or indifferent engineer, and is presumed to know nothing of all these gr...

The Spanish Influenza Spanish Influenza Outbreak, 1918 by Sarah Cummings I had a little bird. Its name was Enza.I opened the window, And in-flu-enza* Children's Rhyme In the midst of perfect health, in a circumscribed community... the first case of influenza would occur, and then within the nex...