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The 1812 war spurred the need for construction of a fort to strengthen the United States military along the coast which led to construction of fort Sumter.

He used a lot of his personal knowledge of the gulf to give a detailed account of the history of central and Eastern Arabia.

More specifically, the development of a common religion in America as a result of the civilization of European countries led to the development of Christianity which up to now remains one of the main abiding [...]

At the time of her birth, Charles VI, the King, was not reliable, possibly insane and the Hundred Years' War was lingering on between France and England, nearly wreaking total destruction with the scorched earth [...]

Could Harold prevent the landing of the Norman army on the shore of the English Channel? The core of Harold's troops was the fyrdmen and the housecarls.

Besides the fact that the idea about chivalry evolved significantly through the centuries, it is necessary to argue the fact of the existence of chivalry itself.

However, to trigger the new warfare, he would have to consider the reasons for failure in the previous Crusades, as well as the current situation, including the condition of the resources and the public mood.

The Byzantium Empire succeeded the Roman Empire in terms of the monarchical government and a complex system of bureaucracy. During the VIIth and the VIIIth centuries, the model of government was evolving, reversing to the [...]

At around 200 BC, there was the construction of the Great Wall of China, and improvement of the trade relations which involved Asia and the Roman Empire, and the use of architecture in the design [...]

The empire had the most dynamic agricultural land that the Song used to empower the people of China. After the massive paper money invention, there was a large scale of steel and the iron industries [...]

The objective of this paper is to critically analyze the historic events that escalated as a result of the space race between America and the Soviets during the Cold war.

The year 1881 saw the appointment of Chester Alan Arthur as the 21st President of the United States. As a president, Arthur was conscious of the wrangles and divisions in the Republican Party.

Evliya celebi is one of the most outstanding figures in the Ottoman Empire of the 17th century. In this respect the main work of Evliya The Book of Travels represents picaresque and exhaustive information on [...]

In his actions to seek justice, Murrieta managed to fight also for the rights of Mexicans who were undermined by Californians.

Pennoni was the first one in his family to gain the higher education, owing to his commitment and his parents' understanding of "the value of education".

Depicting the events of the Mexican Revolution through the soldier's eyes, the author criticizes the goals and means of the Federales in these military operations in particular and reveals the tragedy of common people in [...]

Part of the nation wanted to end the blemish of slavery that had tainted the image of an otherwise clean nation for a long time while another side; the south was out to protect the [...]

Prior to the arrival of white men in Umuofia, the society was heavily dependent on agriculture. For instance, the Igbo would kill children given to the community as prisoners of war but this phenomenon was [...]

The introduction of the Latin alphabets and writings in schools were some of the initiatives which the president used in order to secularize the Turkish society.

Due to the availability of facilities for them to work outside their homes, and the need for them to supplement on the family income, they took up roles to work in industries that were established [...]

These women more often interacted with native women and were moved by the plight of women in the remote regions they voyaged.

This essay analytically explores some of the conditions which helped bring about movement for women's right in Great Britain and United States before the close of the last century. In addition, the most significant demand [...]

To effectively take control of the country, the Mongols had no option but to look for means of controlling the four states.

As a result of the kidnapping of the labor minister in Quebec and James Cross, the FLQ asked for ransom in the form of demands that the provincial administration in Quebec and the government had [...]

In American History, two personalities Benjamin Franklin & Jonathan Edwards were seen to represent two different approaches to the creation of national identity in the years which lead to the creation of an American republic.

Racial attitudes and the dominance of white men over the black ones in the USA are the central ideas of the movie and the novel.

Colonialism is the political ideology that legalizes the invasion, occupation, and exploitation of a given land by stronger states which use their military powers thus displacing the powers of the original inhabitants of the land.

In my view, domestic containment was a result of the insecurities and ambitions that were the outcome of the war and that is exactly what May argues, that it started inside the homes, "potentially dangerous [...]

Tests were therefore carried out to confirm whether there was any relationship between the descendants of Jefferson and his slave Sally.

Most of the Americans believe that James town is the birth place of the distinctive, secular and unique ideals of America that led to America's freedom and prosperity.

Many of the presidents of the twentieth century, including President Bush and President Obama, have used concepts and ways of responding to problems that originate from the writings and actions of the first presidents of [...]

Looking at the differences, it is peculiar to admit that the views of authors go apart at the point of the draught of 1607. In the first reading, it is highlighted that Indians reduced to [...]

The Roman Empire used the first systems of the republic to conquer a lot but for the interest of a few who included those living within the cities as well as those who were close [...]

Michael Cook's "A Brief History of the Human Race" portrays the general outline of global human history over the past 10,000 years.

After America witnessed the sinking of the Maine, it became clear that they had to engage in war with the Spaniards. The Spanish American war was crucial to African Americans in a number of ways.

They include The Roman empire, the Persian empire, Indian empire and the Parthian empire, there are also a lot of other empires that were also formed. The British empire was also able to withstand a [...]

It is clear to everyone that the world had a long and complex way of transformation before it became similar to the world we live in now.

As a result of this, Lin Zexu informed Queen Victoria that the Oing State was not in support of the opium trade, this led to a war between China and Britain leading to the surrender [...]

He went to the elections as the president of the poor. The election of Jackson has a lot of significance to American politics today.

Even before the war, the South or the confederates had wanted to secede from the Union or the United States of America.

It signifies that the problem of inflation and pricing crisis were the major economic problems that were the most significant signs of economic decay of the Empire at the beginning of the fourth century.

At a time when the word "tyranny" was in regular use by the revolutionaries to describe the British king, she was applying that odious term to the habitual tendencies of men to abuse their power [...]

Jamestown was the first English colony which was established in 1607 in Chesapeake Bay area in Virginia under the coordination of the London Virginia Company which was exploring gold in this area.

Despite the intensive efforts that have been made in trying to deal with past bias in the United States, racism has remained elusive and has always impacted a lot on the policymaking in the country.

As a result of the construction of these structures, the problems that had dogged the urban cities in Europe prior to 1850 were somewhat contained.

This paper will focus on the economic impact of the Black Death and the changes that occurred to European society after the catastrophe. The most noticeable effect of the Black Death was the abrupt decline [...]

Another factor of Borden's domestic policy was handling the issue of women's rights in relation to equal suffrage; a bill granting women the right to vote was introduced in 1918, immediately after the war was [...]

The European states occupied the whole of Africa and were competing amongst themselves for control of the territory. The European states that were economically stable and had stronger military occupied most of the regions.

The year 1789 was marked by celebrations of the centenary of the glorious revolution in Britain. There was much travel between Britain and France and the individuals who supported events in France started to dress [...]

Born to slavery, he had a white father and a black slave mother in Virginia, he got good schooling and prevailed among the African American community, and was favored by the white politicians to be [...]

Catherine the great was advocating and persuading the young Alexander to adopt the principles of the Genevois philosopher, Rousseau. The Bessarabia and the parts of the black sea in the eastern side were also seized [...]

An attempt to draft the Indian treaty by the President with the help of Congress failed and the laws were changed to empower departments to draft treaties that would later on be submitted to the [...]

The industrial revolution also helped change the movement of goods around the world and the issue of materialism was adopted as a result of arts and religion.

The American Road to Independence was a movement that was started by free people in colonial America before 1775."The revolution was in the minds and hearts of people....before a drop of blood was shed in [...]

Thus, the present paper will be devoted to the comparative analysis of various indigenous groups that lived in South Africa during precolonial era and dealt with one another and the second focus of the present [...]

The Spanish and Vikings were similar in the sense that they were both settlers who managed to explore the American region.

A period of gold rush involves a feverish movement of people into the area of commercial gold discovery. This is because; only the strong seem to survive a gold rush.

Starting with the Herzegovinian peasant revolution in July of 1875, the Austro-Hungarian diplomacy was the one that was particularly held responsible for the crisis while the European diplomacy was the one that was generally held [...]

In the beginning of the 18th century, half of the labor was provided by the African slaves while the rest was being provided by the Native Americans with the latter providing the Spanish farms or [...]

This civil war was mainly a conflict between the nationalists and the communists and led to the formation of the People's Republic of China.

The claim that Columbus was the first person to discover America can be disapproved by the fact that; the Muslim had encountered contact with the people of the American land long before Columbus came into [...]

The reforms gave encouragement to Ottomanism trying to integrate the non-Turks and the non-Muslims more into the society of the Ottoman Empire by giving them more civil rights and conceding equality all through the Empire."Ottoman [...]

Bentley and Ziegler examine the world as a whole and focus on the development and formation of the world's major societies, 'traditions', and also interactions and connections that have always been established among societies, 'encounters'."Traditions [...]

Locker about the way he happened to take part in the Vietnam War, he said that he was drafted but, anyway, at that time he thought that it was his destiny as he wanted to [...]

He did not tell the settlers of the difficulties they were going to face in moving from Europe to the land of honey that is America.

The author stated that the Jews were deluded and yielded to temptation of the creation of monarchy that is considered one of their sins.

The introduction of the zoot suit also took the black American world by storm and in no time the zoot suit was a synonym for Harlem nightlife.

There was huge discrepancies of occupation of black Americans and the natives in distribution of work as it is has been discussed by which is summarized herein below on the distribution of African American workers [...]

The downfall of the Colorado party can be attributed to three main factors: the defeat of bourgeois opposition to the oligarchy, the recession of the political system and dictatorship.

The main measures that he employed in the endeavor to restore religion include; regulation of private behavior, reconstruction of public monuments and public religion and creating awareness by the use of literature that discussed the [...]

The US was very active in this crisis and greatly assisted the Western Berlin to go over the blockade staged by the Soviet Union.

The present paper is devoted to a narrower notion of discrimination; it is discrimination in America that has an evident ethnical bias, it is discrimination against foreigners.

The most significant of these events was the sinking of the Lusitania after an attack by German U-boats, the Zimmerman telegraph that added insult to the injury caused to the U.S.by the sinking of the [...]

He was the leader of the Vietnam independence movement and established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam which was governed by the communists.

This led to the death of many young people in the nation which resulted in one of the failures for them to reach the standards of the Romans of establishing an empire.

The American history of assassinations in the 1960's left an indelible mark in the minds of many people. Similar to the assassination of John F.

Lincoln led the defeat of the secession in the civil war but was assassinated shortly before the end of the war.

In this essay, I will discuss the causes of the Mexican revolutions, the major stages in the revolution, immediate and long term effects of the revolution, the constitution and the Presidents who served Mexico from [...]

The villager assembly oversees the progress of the VCs and ensures that the decisions they make are for the common good of the rest of the villagers.

While discussing women's roles in the communist era of the Eastern Europe, Peto shows that in the post-communist there developed a feminist side of history, but before which history was grossly dominated by patriarchal views.

According to Lijphart, the Westminster model of democracy provides a throughout insight into the essence of democracy not only in the United Kingdom but in the rest of the world as well.

Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last monarch to rule the Kingdom of Hawaii before it was annexed to the United States of America.

This was because it was the middle class and the lower class people who provided the labor that run the economy.

The third expedition was in 1409-1411 where he visited Kaya and Coimbatore in addition to his first and second expedition countries he had visited.

In April 1984 Milosevic replaced Stambolic being elected as the president of the Belgrade City Committee of the League of Communists. Stambolic, in his turn, got the post of the head of the Serbian Communist [...]

The journals reveal "the determination, courage, and skills which enabled Cook to fight with the continuous dangers of uncharted seas and the problems of achieving a relationship with the people whose unexpected guest he became".

The thesis of the book reflects its aim to criticize the policy of the United States to show that the country's concentration on its interests in the past has in a certain way contributed to [...]

Chapter 7 of the book deals with the life and achievements of German sociologist Max Weber, one of the greatest sociologists of the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century.

The rules on immigration were stipulated to control the number of foreigners seeking employment within the member states of the European Union.

Stephen Kotkin's essay "Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization" describes the building of Magnetic Mountain as a part of Stalin's plan to turn the USSR into a country of steel; the essay lays out the [...]

After the success of the American Revolution, there was a lot of literature both in praise and criticism of the war which found its way to the French people.

Classes emerged in the societies with the class of labor and that of the owners of means of production who were referred to as the capitalists.

The period in which the United States made a lot of progress in technological as well as economical was from 1865 and the beginning of the twentieth century.

Different parts of the world were also opened up to new trade that led to exchange of crops, animals and diseases as people settled in new lands.

To make the respective conclusion to this critical review, the book by Fischer is a brilliant source of information on the formative years and events in the American history.

This pushed Jefferson and his party to adopt Hamilton's economic policies including the support of a bank of the United Sates and the payment of national debts. This era was a direct result of the [...]

Serfs were given the status of free citizens with the conformity of all civil rights, in the likes of the privileges to marry with no obligation to seek approval, to have possession of personal property, [...]

It is often argued that that the inaction of the British government aggravated the effects of the famine. In addition to that, several historians believe that the Potato famine can be considered as an act [...]

Colonial Settler: You believe that the earth has a spirit? The earth is not meant to be owned by man, though there are some who claim it for their own.

The pamphlet was aimed at convincing people that they should not be ruled by a King who was born to rule rather than has been chosen by people to govern for them, in other words, [...]

According to the orders of Hadrian in 121-122 in the north of Britain between Solu Firth and Tayn triple, there was built a wall to protect the country against incursions from the north.

Our forefathers found their way into the United States as slaves, who had been captured and shipped to work in the various expansive farmlands, such as cotton farms, in the northern and southern regions of [...]

The meaning of the piece is evident from its background Anubis is the guardian of the dead in the afterlife and of their mummies in this world.

Alfred Weber is one of the world's known revolutionists who engineered the use of written literature in this field by putting down the two revolution theories, i.e, Agglomerative and Deglomerative forces; agglomerative refers to concentrating [...]

Churchill accused the Soviet Union of the deployment of global expansion and the attack on the territory of "the free world".

The focus of this paper will cover the initial stages of the development of the Australian colony of New South Wales in the period between 1788 and 1792.

The primary causal of this period includes scientific revolutions, declining influence of the church, exploration and imperialism, and the thirty years of war Scientific revolutions begun at the end of middle age and came about [...]

Although the Constitution promised its people justice, equality and liberty, it has never been able to rid the slaves off their bondage and provide the people of every race and color their privileges and equal [...]

Another attempt to explain the origin of lynch law is that of regulators and moderators. According to Rhodes, this theory is not applicable because the name of the law and order maintenance unit was aregulators' [...]

Another factor that led to the partitioning of the countries was the strong ideological divide that existed between Muslims and Hindus in India.

The Communist Party of Vietnam had organised the suppressed people of Vietnam, occurred proletarian's revaluation, and proclaimed Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 2nd September 1945 with the full cooperation and support of China when the [...]

The main target of the Soviet was to ensure that the two parties merged. What brought the Communists to power was the revival of the power of the peasantry through Mao Zedong.

His main argument in this matter is that whilst racism did not at first lead the colonists in enslaving the blacks, the concept of the native hereditary inferiority on the component of Africans and African [...]

In this particular context, it can be argued that the fact that most immigrants into the American culture faced racism-related challenges is one example that deems the melting pot paradigm a false depiction of the [...]

Jordan and Charles Johnson, in their works, show their own considerations about the aftermaths after the Civil War and America's Reconstruction in 1865-1890. The white population was simply not ready to accept people of color [...]

The War resulted in the Reconstruction of the whole economic system of the United States with the indispensable condition of slavery abolition.

The books divulge the inevitability and necessity of the revolution in the colonies in 1775-1781 and call for equality of all people at any time.

Jordan and Charles Johnson, in their works, provide their research about the processes of development of the back then the USA and touch upon such problematic issues as the establishment of slavery, the Civil War [...]

This impacted well to the American economy, though they were considered to be the weaker sex, their activities enhanced the American economy.

All these passions are vividly depicted in the films made by Cuban filmmakers about life in Cuba, the Cuban Revolution, and the relations of common Cubans towards revolutionary actions.