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The rapid growth of the territory exacerbated the dispute over the fate of the new states - whether they were to be free or slave states.

More specifically, the origin of this Code was done according to the will of Anu and Bel, king of the Anunnaki, who called Hammurabi to bring order to the land of man.

On the contrary, to the north of the country, close to Tajikistan, Afghanistan has the Bactrian Plain, which contains a unique geographic area in the form of an extension of the clay-sandy Karakum desert.

Slavery practices were perceived to extend in Boston, which is believed to be the first place where someone tried to force enslaved people to have children to earn money. To summarize, the practice of slavery [...]

In the first half of the century, Mexican comprised the majority of the Hispanic migrants to the country, with a small proportion of immigrants from the Caribbean countries.

He proposes a system of political organization wherein the government is representative of its people and adapted to their practical needs.

In contrast, Aztec creation stories are based on dismembered gods, and thus the origin of the world is catastrophic violence, which explains why Aztec art depicts divinity as gruesome and awe-inspiring.

This work investigates the role of Napoleon in the French Revolution and analyzes his contribution to the history and causes of downfall.

Chapter 5 of the book talks about the condition of native women in the times of the colonial conquest of the Americas.

The slave population in the North progressively fell throughout the 1760s and 1770s with slaves in Philadelphia reducing to approximately 700 in 1775.

The battle of Alma, fought on 20 September 1854, opened the road to Sevastopol and proved the superiority of the allied arms and the French tactics over the cumbersome Russian military.

For entrepreneurs and people starting their own businesses, the industrialization became a central source of focus and income, replacing the manual labor of people. Industrialization drove urban development, and contributed to the establishment of the [...]

One of the major differences between the US and South Africa is the fact that in the case of the former, an African American minority was brought to the continent to serve the White majority.

Though the early Suffrage movement lacked diversity and the associated perspectives, it did lay the foundation for the 19trh Amendment despite quite vocal claims against change among some of the more racist Tennessee women, who [...]

In terms of the significance of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the recovery of the Union, reform of southern states, and implementation of progressive legislation promoting the rights of formerly enslaved people were all part [...]

Barlow's original vision of the United States as a young and promising country and observations developed by Dickens, Tocqueville, and Trollope introduce a new two-way analysis of American democracy, social order, and economic stability.

The fact that according to most of the myths, Rome started from fratricide seems to be quite relevant as the city's history is famously filled with civil conflicts and wars.

The reason for the military conflict between the United States and Spain was the American government's support for the Cubans' long battle for independence from the Spanish crown.

The decision to promote progressive ideas was not spontaneous, and he saw the movement as the possibility to protect the real rule of humans.

He considered the most important element of the success of the state and society to be the preservation and promotion of peaceful coexistence with all forces.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of large industries were controlled by millionaire families, such as the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, and the Vanderbilts.

Moreover, Herodotos' text depicts the extinction of Cretans, which corresponds to the archeological data, although they mention the eruption as the main factor for the demise of Minoans.

In the 15th century, the Europeans claimed the region following the establishment of Spanish settlements and conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires.

Though the U.S.did not manage to protect South Vietnam from communist forces, its spread to the rest of Southeast Asia was blocked, and it is possible to consider this reform effective.

This is precisely what happened to the Roman Republic, where the causes and consequences of problems influenced the disappearance of the empire.

While the first act assimilated the natives and forced them to abandon their roots, the second act effectively granted Canada the right to dispose of lands and resources belonging to the Indians.

The decline of the 14-15th centuries, also known as the crisis of the late Middle Ages, is a term used in Western historiography to refer to the recession processes that took place in some countries [...]

The 1929 stock market crash was a breakdown of stock prices that led to the worst economic declines in the United States. One of the causes of the event was the speculation on the stock [...]

The Victorian era and modern American have similarities in how the people live in the two ages. Most people have disrespect and ignorance of everything in the current world.

Women were in charge of domestic chores and the planning and coordination of family gatherings. Dalit women were among the poorest in India, with a high percentage of illiteracy.

By the end of the 18th century, in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in America, the bourgeoisie formation accelerated, the layer of Creoles focused on foreign markets strengthened, and the intelligentsia emerged.

The main problem of this response highlights the problem of loneliness of people in the world, despite the simple idea of a good life.

However, the advent of the second revolution sparked numerous manufacturing innovations, like steel production, the manufacture of interchangeable parts, and innovations in the machine tool industry.

Clark's topic is the impact of World War II on the independence of South Africa. The main point of the author is that South Africa's history during and immediately after World War II is underresearched.

The main argument of this claim is supported by the fact that the majority of monuments were erected not directly after the Civil War but in the 1900-the 1920s.

One of the most common forms of resistance was sabotage of production by breaking tools, feigning illnesses, and slowing the work process.

The outcome of the Bandung conference was that most of the Southeast Asian nations joined the agreement leading to the end of the Cold War.

The term "colonialism" is used to characterize the system of domination of the developed countries of Europe and the USA. At the end of the XIX century, the dependent territories and colonies came under the [...]

Therefore, this paper outlines the life, the rise, and the fall of Umar Bin Abdelaziz as the Caliph of the Umayyad empire.

One of the significant points that stood out for me in the materials was the discussion of bubonic plague, its influence on the world, and its intricate distribution pattern.

Even though racism and practices of racial discrimination had been banned in the 1960s after the mass protests and the changes to the laws that banned racial discrimination institutionally.

On the other side, Americans believed the annexation would cause conflict between the U.S.and Mexico. The evidence on whether the U.S.annexation would cause war between the U.S.and Mexico was based on two main reasons.

Consumption of alcoholic beverages considerably declined as a result of the enactment of prohibition in the United States. As a result, there was a considerable decrease in the number of alcohol-related diseases.

Using the example of a deceived and suffering enslaved person, the author showed the cowardice, hypocrisy, and lies of the entire system and its defenders in particular.

The American South should have been treated as a rebellious state as they did not have evidence of any form of change after losing the war to the North.

In his book, Gary unveiled that the American Revolution's chaos was through the power of Native Americans, enslaved people, and African Americans, not the people in power. The book boldly explains the origins of the [...]

In this chapter of the book Women in World History, the Mughal rule and its consequences for women in conquered lands are discussed.

In addition, the Chinese government restricted the position of widows since they were forced either to live in the household of their late husband and take care of the family or to remarry, leaving all [...]

This article is a significant contribution to the exploration of Canadian history since it shows the inner mechanisms of the state.

Given that the driveway was critical for transporting prisoners and provision of other services to the jail, the students were trespassing on the property and blocking the prison's function.

For all the importance of the internal structure of New England, the relationship with the indigenous people was a guarantee of the survival and development of the settlement.

Page immerses the reader in a fascinating and eventful story of the first people on the American continents. Known as the founder and director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute in Erie, Pennsylvania, Adovasio lifts the [...]

The rationale for removing Indians from the Southeast lands of the United States included several points that were claimed to benefit the Government of the United States in multiple ways.

When researching the topic of US Westward Expansion in the 1800s, one might emphasize the contribution of several specific historical events that were decisive for the overall entrance into the West of the continent.

Over the years of existence in the modern United States, there have been numerous iterations of the party systems and political structures in the attempts to address the differences between Democrats and Conservatives.

Moreover, according to Grodzins, the sheer force employed in persecuting African-Americans in their movements for Civil rights was also facilitated by Federalism.

The independence of the United States after the Revolutionary War began with the establishment of the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution that corrected the inefficiencies of the Articles of Confederation was created and established in [...]

He lived in a time of "lasting change" that laid the Western foundation for the future concepts of philanthropy in general, and specifically for American philanthropy. As Rockefeller's business and wealth were expanding, the amount [...]

The sentimental value of the photo becomes evident along with the title and quote about "a story of tolerance and love". Marti Attoun's article on Irena Sendler's story provides a continuous overview of the main [...]

After the war, the United States accounted for 60% of industrial production, two-thirds of the gold reserves, and one-third of the exports of the capitalist world.

From the lecture, I discovered that the word democracy partly originates from the word demes which means the small division of the bigger sections that Athens was divided into during the ancient time.

Becker and mineral exploration in South Africa and the Philippines" investigates the geologist's role in shaping the American imagination of imperial expansion.

According to the activist, the latter means allowing all people to live freely and without fear, segregation, violence, and the need to fight for their rights.

The topic of the essay "From Divided to United during American War in Vietnam" is the war in Vietnam and the perception of it by the American people.

Following the development of the polis, the Greeks initiated the formation of different political structures in the country. Athens played a vital role in the Persian war by defeating the Persians in the salamis and [...]

After that, two senators, Pupienus and Balbinus, were elected as the rulers of the Roman Empire. Hence, the fall of the Roman Empire was caused by several factors that influenced both the economy and the [...]

From this point of view it is necessary to conduct a detailed analysis of his strategy, and to identify the reasons for the failure of the most significant battle in the history of the general.

It is the issue that rules the account of such countless other early English endeavors at colonization in North America and the Caribbean that scarcely shows up in the narrative of soonest New England.

Maya Angelou's poem On the Pulse of Morning is a portrayal of the necessary change that America as a country needs and that Americans as individuals have to facilitate.

Bush's remarks in Document 9, I would hypothesize that it took the U.S.to acknowledge the rights of disabled people quite a long time because of the ignorance and stigma.

Stereotypes continue to permeate many members of our society, and this indicates that perhaps the defenders' arguments were not very convincing in their time.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the reasons and possible ways to end this conflict regarding the concepts of peacemaking and peacebuilding.

3His cruel leadership was evident because, during his ascension to power, he ordered a mass human ritual that involved the slaughter of slaves and criminals all over the temples and arenas of the city.

The Cherokee were North American Indians identified as the Iroquoian ancestry and formed one of the most administratively united tribes in the USA during colonialization.

The following essay focuses on the reasons why it is challenging for the Black community in the United States to accumulate wealth and move upwards on the economic ladder.

Hooker juxtaposition Vasconcelos' 'Cosmic Race' theory to Douglass's account of ethnicity-based segregation in the U.S.as a way of showing the similarities between the racial versions of the two Americas.

As such, in the essay, several civilizations are compared: the Ashanti civilization of West Africa in 1600 AD, the Latin American civilization in 1800 AD, and the Cherokee civilization of North America in 1700 AD.

The War of Independence is one of the crucial pages of the American history, serving as the point, from which the United States originated as an autonomous political entity.

Dodson, Howard."A Place of Our Own: The National Museum of African American History and Culture". Rice, Faun."National Museum of African American History and Culture: A New Integration?" Curator: The Museum Journal, vol 60, no.

In such difficult times, as the Cold War and the spread of terrorism, the role of Christians is to pursue one of God's main principles, which is hope.

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to help the Union Army win the war because he abolished slavery and declared that freed slaves be enlisted in the Union Army, in turn increasing the available human resources.

The present essay explains an ornate connection link between agriculture and prisons and discusses the influence of political and economic trends in the US from the 1970-s the 1990-s on some of the failures of [...]

The Nova documentary film entitled "Riddles of the Sphinx" discusses the building of the Great Sphinx, the largest statue in Egypt.

Overall, Reconstruction was the period of time following the American Civil War, when the government tried to solve several economic, political, and social consequences that appeared because of the readmission of the eleven Confederate states.

However, the reforms largely failed, due to the lack of full support from the emperor and large landowners, with the only positive outcome was the establishment of a national educational system in China.

Once the diplomat carefully assessed the scope of the issue in relation to the Serbs' lack of interest in negotiating, he gradually started to construct a nuanced strategy.

The Matsaba of Mereruka is a great example of the Old Kingdom tomb and its purpose of ensuring a prosperous afterlife for the buried one. The first mention of the king of the afterlife was [...]

The tomb of Mereruka at Saqqara is one of the most famous monuments, which is the tomb of the non-royal person.

Today, "the Yoruba people occupy the South-Western part of Nigeria, they account for about 20% of the population of the country". According to experts, "the Yoruba people are mainly involved in the financial, press and [...]

In the United States, the 1960s was characterized by the rise of Civil Rights Movements, the aim of which was to suppress and end discrimination and racial segregation against African Americans.

The idea of Manifest Destiny was so strong that it encouraged westward expansion throughout the rest of the nineteenth century. Thus, the Roaring Twenties proved America to be a homeland of technological and cultural marvels [...]

As a result of these circumstances, the two groups were left with no choice but to face the dilemma between the universal inclusion promise and the execution of racial exclusion in the United States.

Precisely this colonial racism and genocide can be considered to be the cruelest in the history of the world and may have influenced the ideas and plans of Adolf Hitler, who got inspired by the [...]

Stott's biography of Hannah More sheds more light on the life of the exuberant and ambitious literary sensation, who never received her due share of recognition from the later generations.

The author focuses mostly on the internal and external social and political processes of the countries of South Africa, such as Bechuanaland, Kenya, and Rhodesia.

This allowed the U.S.to maintain a capitalist presence in Berlin and convinced Western Europe that the new enemy was the communist U.S.S.R.

The factors that contributed to the war were multi-varied and complex, mostly stemming from the fact that the Southern economy was dependent on agricultural slave labor and thus protested the federal abolition of slavery as [...]

When Portuguese sailors cruised in West Africa in the 1440s to hunt for wealth, spices, and friends in contrast to Muslims and the Ottoman Empire, the one who exacts Mediterranean Sea trade, the initial stages [...]

His central argument is that the United States is a pointillist empire of global proportions, and the American population is not aware of this fact due to the use of language and filtration of history.

3 Although the resistance that Native Americans demonstrated was beyond impressive and inspirational, the strategic advantage of the British colonists defined the outcome, leading to a spike in the British slave trade and the further [...]

They made major contributions to the period as military commanders Lee leading the Army of Northern Virginia and Grant commanding various forces in the Western theater and then the Army of the Potomac.

The laxity of the national government to solve the issues of African Americans led to the continuous rise of the Abolitionist movement.

The power was passed from father and son, and the Quraish of the Hashemites handed power to the Umayyads after the murder of Muttalib.

In addition, the key role of the progressive lies in addressing the problems of the other, for which reason they are to remain enthusiastic and inspiring under any circumstances.

The history of the Tubman family on the United States' soil began with Harriet's grandmother, who was brought to a farm in Maryland.

One notable difference between Caesar's and Plutarch's descriptions of the siege of Alesia is how the authors list the numbers of the Gauls.

The literature reviewed in this paper allows us to compare the ethical and technological paradigms of the two wars and the transformation of the Marine Corps.

Thus, the most striking innovative feature of today's technological revolution is the unification and connection of the real and digital space to boost human understanding of information and knowledge in general.

The privileged population can revise the situation in a better way for them, so from the example of white supremacists, the people can always learn critically to perceive the information and question the existing social [...]

American Indians were imagined as unable to civilize, and the power of white settlers was great, which allowed the government to ignore Indians' achievements, petitions, and readiness to cooperate and maintain the Trail of Tears.

The Americans were exposed to one type of dancing and the same kind of music. The jazz phase had been a sociocultural era and phenomenon in the U.S.through the 1920s that saw the development of [...]

The chapter investigates how social forces led to the oppression of women and expounds on the foundation of the women's movement in the 19th era.

On the other hand, the representatives from the smaller states longed for equal seat allocation among all the provinces, which is known as the Jersey plan. It ensured once again the equal distribution of power [...]

The material would be their books "Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands" and "Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawaii," respectively.

Historians have argued that the motivations leading to the expansion included the need to mobilize and access new and prime lands and resources, the acquired literacy level of the Russians as compared to their conquest, [...]

Due to the obvious huge enslavement, Scott and several others were compelled to migrate, and he was transferred to Missouri. Douglas sided with the original founders and their work, claiming that Lincoln was harm to [...]

From 1654 to the mid-18th century, the land is believed to have been under the proprietorship of the Flatbush Reformed Church.

Failure of some of the tribes to accept the removal prompted wrangles within the communities, leading to the killing of some of the natives to grab the land forcibly.

The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration were some of the many programs representing minorities in the New Deal.

The condensed steam in a cylinder creates a vacuum leaving the atmospheric pressure to drive the piston the mechanical technique of injecting cold water through the valve to condense steam developed through trial and error.