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Thus, Reconstruction became a contest over the memory and meaning of the war, and eventually, the Southerners lost, leading to the failure of this renewal.

The chorus in Oedipus, the King is an additional set of characters, the Theban elders. They represent "the people" of the city, and they alternately pray, bemoan their fate, or criticize the King.

We used to take our baths in the springs and also water which was used for drinking, cleaning, and cooking was transported from the springs to our home.

Communists hoped to achieve, and that was why they had more and more concentrated their propaganda efforts on the boys and girls and the young men and women.

The term "market revolution" is used to refer to a period in the first half of the 19th century associated with significant changes in global trade relations and the way Americans conducted business.

The primary sources include The Proclamation of Independence, in which the Mujibnagar Government expresses the will of the oppressed people in Pakistan.

The first phase is the first half of the 19th century and the second phase is the second half of the 19th century.

An unsatisfied army general who served in the army of the Tang Dynasty started the rebellion which led to the collapse of the dynasty.

The ideas of absolute monarchy in the 17th century were reinforced by the belief that rulers' right to govern was given by the power of God.

King was a trait leader, as he was able to translate his vision or his dream to others and make them enthusiastic about it.

The occupation of the Nile Valley by the Romans in 31 BC marked the beginning of change in the culture of the Egyptians.

5 In this respect, the arrival of the barbarians and their attacks led to the fall of the Roman Empire's government in the west.

George Washington Carter has experienced much difficulty in his way due to ethnocentric and racist inclinations of the society he lived in.

He used his power to better the lives of the public in South Africa and set an example of selfless leadership.

Well, as exposited in this paper, the Second World War, anti-colonial movements, the United States, the United Nations declaration, the Cold War and the USSR were the main forces behind the decolonization while the end [...]

Unfortunately with the death of Crassus by 53 BC and Caesar's subsequent rise to power this as a result eclipsed the political standing of Pompey resulting in a distinct shift in the balance of power [...]

Exploring the wide range of subthemes, including the rejection of the League of Nations, consequences of the World War I for the country and main preconditions of the market crash in 1929, Leuchtenburg emphasizes the [...]

Although researchers propose different views to answer the question, the general impact of the Cultural Revolution on the education in China during the 1960s-1970s can be discussed as negative because of the strong connection of [...]

Therefore, the salt march movement contributed to the independence movement of India and the replication of similar non-violent movements around the world.

The forced servitude of the serfs was usually rewarded by protection and the right to work in the fields of their lords.

This marked the beginning of the Westward movement, a historical turning point of the Native Americans, with the authorization to construct the transcontinental railroad.

With the fine details included in the memoir, it helps a reader to walk through the Chinese revolutionary era and witness the havoc that the revolution triggered by Mao Zedong had on the Chinese people. [...]

Initially the post of General Secretary was not so powerful in the party; however, following the death Vladimir Lenin who had led the communist party from 1917, Stalin strengthened the opposition by eliminating opposition within [...]

It is bounded to the north by Houston Street, to the east by Crosby Street, to the south by Canal Street, and to the west by Sixth Avenues. The further development of the country and [...]

The document is about the interrogation of Johannes Junius who was accused of witchcraft during the craze of 1628. He then requested to confront his witnesses and continued to deny his involvement in witchcraft after [...]

Although the goal of the Third World Liberation Front to establish an independent third world college on campus was not realized at the height of this activist movement in 1969, the movement strongly influenced future [...]

In the aftermath of World War II, Latin American countries which were relatively absent from the global conflict sought participation in the discussion of the post-war global security order, which was at the time spearheaded [...]

Maloney invited her to the US, and she was welcomed in New York by a crowd of people and an orchestra.

Specific areas that this paper would look into include: why the Indian tribes fought with the French, what the French did differently to befriend so many Indian tribes as compared with the British, reasons behind [...]

However, these women took advantage of society's status to improve their living statutes and the family. The education given to Athenian and Spartan women helped them to achieve different goals in life.

Finally, they agreed that the main aim of the republican economy was to sustain citizens and ensure independence and prosperity for all. For example, immigration due to economic opportunities in the US was focused on [...]

The settlers were mainly made of French, British, and the Spanish who interacted differently with the natives depending on their primary mission.

Considered one of the greatest Presidents of the United States he had only one focus that was to see his nation in the driver's seat of the world.

Having been born in a poor background and the difficulties in life he faced, it is hard to believe that Abraham Lincoln could make it to be one of the most talked-about public figures in [...]

The people of the nation are the first line to be affected with how the president handles the state that is why they are very keen in evaluating the current president.

Trade erupted between the three parties: the Pueblo people and Spanish settlers got mutton, clothes, rugs and blanket from the Navajos and on other hand Navajo got corns and beans that they did not grow, [...]

As to Toltecs, they lived in the northern part of Mexico and also contributed to the formation of the Mayan and Aztec cultures.

The abolition challenges the very nature of democracy and the tradition of respecting the diversity of religious and political thought in the U.S.

While Italy was a winner of the Great War, and Germany was a loser, the two countries were put in similar conditions by the Treaty of Versailles.

The Age of Discovery, or as it is also called the Age of Exploration, was an epoch from the early 15th century and ongoing into the early 17th century, throughout which European vessels journeyed around [...]

The national rail network allowed the farmers to become part of the national economic recovery that started at the beginning of the Second World War and continued throughout 1960.

The exceptional volume of the innovations introduced to the life of people and the developmental power it had on the country appears to trace the connections of those changes in the 21st century.

The combination of the regions' economic independence, the tensions between Hindus and Muslims, and the penetration of the subcontinent by the European economic powers led to the decline of the Mughal Empire.

In the first part of his work about the reaction and adaptation of the Filipinos to the Spanish culture, John Leddy Phelan outlines a profile of both the conquerors and the conquered, highlighting the commercial [...]

Jefferson believed that the landless laborers posed a threat to the nation because they were not independent. He believed that if Englishmen ruled over the world, they would be able to extend the effects of [...]

In addition, it is important to concentrate on the idea that events and experiences of the past can influence the development of an entire nation.

Despite efforts by the Qin dynasty to limit the access of these texts to the government and aristocratic circles, the spread of intellectualism proceeded undeterred. The inability of the government to regulate the spread of [...]

To achieve the intended goals, many progressives began by exposing the major evils and challenges that were affecting the United States towards the end of the 19th century.

It meant significant economic and agricultural growth for white people but it was not the only reason for the expansion; the United States was experiencing certain increase in population and it was getting harder for [...]

The French government failed to honor the demands issued by the Algerians leading to the eruption of the Algerian War of Independence.

The construction of the massive buildings in the two cities implied the existence of an autocratic regime that mobilized the labor and provided the necessary raw materials.

According to the readings assigned, the term feminist could be used to refer to people who fought for the rights of women.

Newton was one of the key pioneers in the transition from astrology to astronomy and he formulated scientific laws that assisted scientists and ordinary people to understand the intricacies of planetary motions and how objects [...]

In the 1960s and 70s, African Americans battled racial discrimination at home in the United States but also faced similar if not the same tension as a member of the Armed Forces while fighting in [...]

This impact of the Spanish war is even clearer by consideration of the fact that the war had the implications of making women take up the jobs that originally belonged to men in the industries [...]

The fall of the empire was mainly caused by rampant corruption in the dynasty's courts and the bad rule of the eunuchs.

There has been an extensive account of a favorite cultural model in Germany, even prior to the augmentation of the National Socialists and their capitalization on the initiative of the Volksgemeinschaft in the 1930s and [...]

This revolution, therefore, overturned the Provisional Government and established the Soviet Union. While the February revolution overturned Tsar Nicholas II and established a Provisional Government.

The East usually refers to Asia and the Middle East while the West usually refers to Europe and the American continents. The East views the West with contempt in terms of how the Orient values [...]

From the very onset of the contact with the Europeans, the Natives of America were abducted and taken off to the lands of the Europeans as "specimen".

It was a representation of a first half of the Japanese government or empire that consisted of a complete transition from the so called feudalism which was more of an isolation form of government as [...]

To this end, an overview of the factors that led to the establishment of private security shall be discussed and the major advancements made in this industry addressed.

The hit of the industrial revolution in Europe and America in the 18th century led to a lot of changes and advancement in the production industry.

Romanticism was anchored in the work of the poets which was evident in the daily lives of the society. Besides, the role of women in romantic literature was significant, thus; they were greatest poets and [...]

Revolving around a prominent hotel in Kigali, George features Don Cheadle as the manager of the hotel and a representative of the majority Hutus, the wealthy tribe that enjoys majority of the country's resources.

The Congress largely known as the European Concert was the initial sequence of the worldwide conference to be held for the diplomatic European power balance.

The compromise was drafted by Henry Clay a member of the Whig party and he brokered it with the help of Stephen Douglas to avoid civil war and secession.

The earliest city built by the people of Persia was the Achaemenian and this is the city that was established and later used as the capital of the vast Persian Empire established by Cyrus.

One of the reasons why they have a strong appeal in the hearts and minds of 21st century people can be traced to the fact that their messages continue to ring true in the hearts [...]

The love between Pocahontas and her father was a combination of filial and spiritual love that extended beyond the two of them to the people her father was serving.

At the turn of the twentieth century, hurricanes were unknown and it was hard for the meteorological officials to predict that the storm of 1900 would be a hurricane.

Other theories have also suggested that it first spread from Portugal to India and to the rest of the world. Several theories have come up to describe the origin and distribution of chili throughout the [...]

IN A NUTSHELL, Charlotte Perkins Gilman fearlessly fought for the women's rights. Charlotte Perkins Gilman championed the rights of women to vote.

Europeans who had lost their property and fortunes in the West sought to reclaim their glory and wealth by exploring and claiming land in North America.

Mohawks are the most numerous people of the Iroquois League, who live in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec and in the U.S.state of New York, on the border with Canada.

While each of the four issues deserves attention, the desire of Athens to control all the other states of Greece seems to have served as the major impetus for the Peloponnesian Wars outbreak.

The current paper explores an example of a poster created in the early years of the war. During WWII, tax increases did not cover the military spending enough, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr, Secretary of the [...]

A pivotal moment in Greek civilization was the conflict between Sparta and the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War, which is significant in Greek history as it heralded the culmination of Greece's Golden Age, a shift [...]

Reagan's policies may have contributed to the fall of communism, but it is more likely that the internal changes in the Soviet Union and the countries it ruled contributed more to the end of the [...]

Hence, the essay elaborates on the biography and milestones in Cornell McBride, Sr's career as a Black entrepreneur in the haircare industry.

The church sought to strengthen its approach to law and justice to fight profanation and heretics. The medieval synthesis sought to create harmony between the co-existence of Christian and secular values.

When it comes to comparing the Han Dynasty in China to the Gupta Empire in India, some parallels can be drawn in terms of the political control methods. In conclusion, the golden ages of China [...]

The French Revolution is the most striking example to study the causes of any revolution, as well as the English Civil War and Russian Revolution.

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 [...]

Moreover, the king was considered the incarnation of the god Horus and "the central figure in the world view of the ancient Egyptians".

It was the accuracy and correctness of the prediction that daunted astronomers for years to come. This event hailed a new set of astronomers who tried to figure out the means to predict such future [...]

Bolivar fought a revolution and a civil war simultaneously, and Arana argues that this is a vastly different narrative than the one that defines North America. In conclusion, Arana presents a complete portrait of Simon [...]

Thus, for women, the lives of women in colonial America were strictly limited to housekeeping and family prosperity, while men actively participated in society's political and economic life. The role of women in such a [...]

From the property-owning women of the late 18th century to the proponents of the women's liberation in the 1960s, women always succeeded in using the influential political theories of their time to eventually make feminist [...]

At the time of JFK's death, his relationship with the CIA was strained, which could have possibly led the agency to conspire and eliminate the president.

The victory of Abbasids over the Umayyads to claim the leadership of Muslims globally was accompanied by the move of the Empire's capital from Syria to Iraq.

According to Tignor et al, WW2 resulted in the following - the war itself left the unresolved issues of WW1 and heightened them, such as plans of Germany and Japan to expand their political impact [...]

Despite the permanent suppression and disregard of the authorities, preserving the native lands and culture remains essential and today it is the turn of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to hold the fort.

He was a renowned author, one of the first printers, one of the finest scientists and inventors among great scientists, and also a great politician and diplomat in the time he worked for the United [...]

Up to about a half of the Virginia land around the 1660s was in the hands of the wealthy class families. The effect of the colonization was felt in both colonies.

He shows the weakest and frailest infants being at the base of the hill while the oldest were on the top.

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

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 [...]

The Spanish American War started in 1898, and the reason of this conflict was the liberation of Cuba. The war started after Spain's rejection of the American request for the resolution of the Cuban struggle [...]

This analysis by John Ehle is about the rise and fall of the Cherokee nation resulting from the forced removal of the Cherokees who were Native Americans from their ancestral lands in Georgia to the [...]

The children of the poor families were forced to find out the livelihood for their families and were deprived of education, his sweet adolescence and other necessities of the world.

The thirty years war was a war of change between the Protestants and the Catholics. This treaty was instituted to put a stop to the religious war between the Lutheran of Germany and the Catholics.

The first point discuss the development of tea ceremony in early period, the second point discuss the connection between Shogunate and further developments in tea ceremony, and the third point discuss the circumstances and reason [...]

He says he prefers the term American Indian because with it he says he knows the origin. It was in the 1960s that he fought for the rights of the American Indians under the American [...]

One of the author's surviving textual works is the detailed description of the city of Timbuktu, the Ghanaian developed trading and economic center, which Leo Africanus describes in the early 16th century.

During this time, the Archaeologists were able to identify the origin of their cultures, economies, and political systems that facilitated the realization of millions of people and languages before the Europeans Explorer in 1944.

There are several peculiarities of design indicating that the contemporary dress can be viewed as the adaption of the ancient stola. In Ancient Rome, this type of clothing was used to conceal the sexuality of [...]

The promise Camillus made to Queen was a tenth of the spoils from the City of Veii and, at the same time, beseeched her to follow them in victory to the city they will share [...]

The present paper will seek to compare the position of female scientists in antiquity to that of contemporary female researchers, particularly with regards to the share of women in the field and the barriers they [...]

Kourosh Ahmadi, the author of the book "Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf: The Abu Musa and Tunbs in Strategic Context," expresses an opinion that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, an [...]

This paper will cover "The Bull Unam Sanctam" by Pope Boniface VIII."Unam Sanctam" is considered one of the first steps toward the change of Papal authority over Europe.

4 The authors indicate that one of the aspects of Shanzhai that the Western countries find the most surprising is the willingness and even eagerness of the government to celebrate the imitation culture.

Irish immigrants came to the United States in search of a better life and employment opportunities. These leisure activities allowed Irish immigrants to adapt and participate in the social life of a community.

This paper will discuss these events in detail, emphasizing that the emerge of the Republican Party took place not only because of the conflict between the North and the South considering slavery abolition but due [...]

While it is clear that the political and economic achievements were made both on long-term and short-term basis, the social impact of the European American entry into the native west is largely arguable, especially due [...]

Over the course of centuries, Arabs were able to build a civilization that made significant contributions to the cultural and scientific treasuries of the world.

The industries grew steadily from the 2nd century AD to the 19th century in which the iron industry became an activity for the robber barons and the captains of industry.

Abu Abdalla Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi, simply referred to as "Al-Khwarizmi," was born in the year 780CE at the town of Khwarizmi in the Persian Empire.

King Henry the 8th was the king of England and a notable figure in the monarchy. His other achievement was the uniting of England and Wales under a legal process in 1542.

The same explains the existence of certain vessels During the reign of the Zhou dynasty, there are elements of religion and.warfare which characterize the Bronze vessels.