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Description Of Elizabethan England Author: Harrison, William Date: 1577 Chapter I Of Degrees Of People In The Commonwealth Of Elizabethan England [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5.] ^1 [Footnote 1: These references are to the first two editions of Holinshed's Chronicles. The mod...

The Middle Ages Political Organization In The Early Middle Ages The centralization of the Carolingian state was not long a source of political stability in western Europe in the early Middle Ages. In those areas where the Carolingian Empire had little impact, and even in the regions which were at s...

The Hittites A history of the Hittites including their cities, kings, art and contributions to civilization The rise and fall of the Hittites The Hittite occupation of Anatolia: The first suggestion of the Hittites' presence in central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age is the occurrence in the K...

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 (...

Battles Of Magenta And SolferinoAuthor: Orsi, PietroBattles Of Magenta And Solferino 1859During the Crimean War (1853-1856) Austria remained neutral, while theItalian Kingdom of Sardinia joined Great Britain, France, and Turkey againstRussia. The power of Austria still kept despotic sway over the St...

The History Of ItalyAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IVA new generation had risen up in Lombardy since the peace of Constance,and the prerogatives reserved by that treaty to the empire were so seldomcalled into action, that few cities were disposed to recollect theirexistence. They denominated themselves...

Australian ConfederationAuthor: Grey, J. GrattanAustralian Confederation1901It has always been a question with geographers whether to class Australiaas an island or as a continent, some arguing that it is too small for the one,and others that it is too large for the other. However that may be, itsis...

Rise Of The Hanseatic LeagueAuthor: Denicke, H.Translation: Joseph SohnPart II.The Hansa ships were usually round-bellied, high-boarded craft with onemast, and flew the pennant of their home port. They were comparatively broadand built of heavy planks, and could easily be transformed into war vessel...

Library Of Alexandria Founded.Author: Rollin, CharlesDate: 1731 Ptolemy Soter Resigns His Kingdom To His Son Ptolemy Philadelphus.Ptolemy Soter, the son of Lagus, after a reign of twenty years in Egypt,with the title of king, and of nearly thirty-nine from the death of Alexander,was desirous of tra...

The American Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Conn., U.S.d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Conn. HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER STOWE was an American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which contributed so much to p...

The Grandeur That Was Rome Page Three Date: 2002The Late Republic, 133-30 B.C.The century following 133 B.C., during which Rome's frontiers reached theEuphrates and the Rhine, witnessed the failure of the Republic to solve theproblems that were the by-products of the acquisition of an empire.Effects...

The American Civil War, Abolition, The Movement Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 There can be no doubt that antislavery, or "abolition" as it came to be called, was the nonpareil reform. Abolition was a diverse phenomenon. At one end of its spectrum was William Lloyd Garrison, an "immediatist," who de...