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Further on, this paper shall highlight the development of education under Japanese rule and the influence of the education system in Taiwan in this era both to the colonizers and to the colonized.

According to Hobsbawm, the bourgeoisie can be discussed in relation to such notions as privacy, property, education, and sport as the determining components of the specific lifestyle, and the role of women in the society [...]

Rodriguez was the leader of the Cali cartel while Escobar headed the Medellin cartel. Escobar used violence to intimidate law enforcers and the public who opposed activities of the Medellin cartel.

The authors address the viewpoint that Islam is one of the major causes of conflicts which took place in the world lately.

There were three main bodies that governed the affairs of Athens and they were the assembly, the council and the courts all which were run by representatives of the people.

It was this paramilitary formed by Hitler that would cause unrest later to tarnish the name of the communists leading to distrust of communism by the Germans and on the other hand rise of popularity [...]

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 [...]

During the last period of the 19th century all the way to the early 20th century, Europe and America experienced revolutions in communication, transportation and weapons which were very crucial particularly in the manner in [...]

In 1801, the thoughtful and innovative display of mastodon remains by Charles Willson Peale, in Philosophical Hall, in Philadelphia, and in Europe, thrust both Peale and the ancient, giant relative of the elephant into this [...]

The background of the system of the preschool education which we know today was made by Patty Smith Hill, a famous American activist in the sphere of education and nursing.

The terms women's liberation and women's movement are synonymous to the feminist movement. Today, the feminist movement still fights for rights of women in the majority of countries across the globe.

What the Pipe Represents The peace pipe integrates the beliefs of the Mi'kmaq people about the world, the spirits, nature, and the supernatural powers.

The whites were the most dominating race in the 19th century. The Negroes and Indians were the second group just below the whites.

The aftermath of the Second World War had the South Vietnam controlled by the French and the North Vietnam controlled by Viet Minh.

One of the greatest and most influential men that captured the attention of both his friends and enemies, and articulated the struggle, the hunger, and the credence of African-American in the early 1960s is none [...]

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.

Julius also lost support from the Senate because he was perceived as a leader of the masses rather than the aristocrats. To some extent, Caesar was a statesman because he cared about the needs of [...]

The uprising that has been witnessed in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and now Syria is a reaction to leaders who have used the rule of law for their own personal gain and at the expense of [...]

The fashion of the 1920s was marked by the introduction of the flipper fashions, new hairstyles that were a breakaway from the traditional past and the jazz music.

The discovery of tools is recognized to be one of the most important events of human development, as it is a well-known fact that "The development of tools such as flint points, axes, weapons such [...]

The civilization of ancient Egypt happened at the same time Mesopotamian civilization was taking place in other areas in the nations of the Akkadians, Babylonians and the Sumerians. Indeed, religion in ancient Egypt led to [...]

The economic devastation of the 1920s led to the Great Depression and brought a tragedy for the whole society. Crash of stock market The crash of the stock market in 1929 ushered in the Great [...]

The document highlights the changes that occurred in the south after the end of the war and during the reconstruction period.

The operational practices of the empires helped shape the cultural and political footprint and the future of the Mediterranean and China.

The Viking incursions into England were a significant event in the history of medieval Europe. The Vikings' conquest of England left a lasting legacy on the culture and customs of the country.

Resources, the quality of the soil, and the climate of a particular area are the cornerstones of any society, as they determine the economic core of the local human population.

Given the situation, I viewed populism as a rather beneficial ideology, as I would make quite expressive speeches, which the people opposed to me perceived as a sign of my incapability to reason coherently.

Despite the persecution and discrimination by the Roman Catholic rulers of that time, the Huguenots increased significantly in population and settled in Southern and Western France throughout the 16th century.

Before he assumed office, Greek society was engulfed in economic, social, and political crises owing to the hoarding of land by aristocrats, debt enslavement, and the lack of political rights for the downtrodden.

The French Revolution was a series of events that marked the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy and the rise of a democratic republic in France.

Earth wound entails the destruction and abuse of the natural environment and resources along with the connected cultural practices, given that the Indigenous communities have a spiritual and intimate connection to the land.

The superintendent's views of the feast and ceremonies contradict the opinion of the commissioner. Thus, the two sources are insufficient to draw an overall and final interpretation of those working with native Indian communities in [...]

Piracy at sea is reported in the ancient Greek and Roman chronicles and is mentioned in the naval histories of Egypt, India, and China.

The first chapter of The Unfinished Journey by Chafe reviews the events that happened during World War II in the United States and abroad with American citizens.

As in the Ottoman Empire, Islam was the main religion in the state, but the presence of other faiths was not denied.

France considered the colonization of Indochina as a political opportunity to increase its authority and influence in the region and compete with the expanding influence of the British Empire in the region.

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 [...]

The purpose of this essay is to examine the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, including the influence of the Catholic Church and Kings in the secular and religious activities of the Europeans.

It stipulated the right of the Americans to expand their lands by exterminating the people who lived there and to develop new territories under the leadership of the American government.

The importance of this event appeared from the fact that the Irish migration was one of the most significant contributors to the American immigrants' inflow.

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

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

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

The former results were possible with the invention of the wheel, the chariot, and the sailboat, which allowed citizens to make the first trips in history.

In addition, the explanation of key terms and discussion of the vital events, in chronological order, will be provided to reveal the historical changes that happened to the U.S.

Modern historians identify four key factors that changed the worldview in the first millennium BC and contributed to the emergence of the early empires, Neo-Assyrian and Persian.

Nevertheless, technological developments in the ancient civilizations were compelled by some factors that either led to the formation of new technologies or improvements of the existent ones. A factor that led to the creation of [...]

The economic system is the essential structure in which the world functions. Economic socialism is where limited ownership of the means of production and a system of prices, losses, and profits are not used as [...]

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 [...]

As part of the discourse on Snowden's social responsibility, one of the central themes of the essay is to determine the moral background of the government's actions in collecting personal data.

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 [...]

The Dominican Republic, a nation of the West Indies, occupies two-thirds of Hispaniola, the largest island in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea.

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 [...]

Sapolsky studied the behavior of baboons to explain the evolution that humans have undergone. According to Sigmund Freud the father of psychoanalysis, actions of the gene in humans are intertwined completely with the environment.

Of great importance was the apprehension of Mandela that further awakened the clamor for independence in the Africans especially after delivering a speech on the trial day, in his defense.

The death penalty became legal in America in 1776 during the revolutionary war. The US Supreme court ruled the death penalty as unconstitutional in 1972.

The book Chinese Overseas outlines the incidents of the overseas Chinese in the past millennium. There is a reality that the Chinese, wherever they go are adaptive to new conditions and are influenced to a [...]

The Japanese adopted the strategy of assimilating the younger generation of the Tsou people through education that greatly affected the Tsou people in terms of their lifestyle and culture.

They say experience is the best teacher and so it was for Sue as she narrates the impact of life in the camps. The first landing zone of the Japanese to America was in California.

Overall, her actions and character provided a contrast to the behavior of women typical for imperial China, and she was equally admired and criticized.

At the same time, the portion of American-born slaves was on the increase and contributed to the multiracial nature of the population.

The particularity of the Tomb of the Augurs is the fact that it is one of the first monuments in Tarquinia to have "figural decorations on all four walls of its main chamber".

Initially, the theme of the evolution of animals and humans was considered ridiculous and even blasphemous since the idea of creational theology was widespread in Victorian society.

John Gotti's incarceration was at the Marion, in one of the penitentiaries in the United States, Illinois; he spent the majority of his sentence in solitary confinement.

Of course, in both of these civilizations, women were oppressed and limited in their rights and freedoms. Both in Ancient Rome and Ancient India, women were considered to be the centers of the household.

He believed that the US was in danger if it would entangle itself in the foreign affairs of other nations particularly those from Europe. The convention of 1800 saw an end to all the treaties [...]

In the picture of a gold necklace placed in the Field Museum it is visible to the naked eye that the work is so fine and marvelous that it is even hard to believe the [...]

The differences in the value that the English and the French attached to land and industry also contributed partly to the conflicts.

Right to the property for married women and their right to private inheritance and inheritance of the community property belonging to the husband was an essential nature of the status of women in Ancient Egyptian [...]

Nationalism in the context of the Japanese entails a very wide range of ideologies and sentiments that have been adopted by the Japanese people for the past two centuries concerning their native nation, the culture, [...]

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".

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 [...]

The rise of the German empire was one of the major events in the age and Bismarck took active role in it.

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

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

Byzantine Constantinople was the capital of Christian Empire the successor of Greece and Rome, and it became the wealthiest and the largest city in the whole Europe.

The infancy of 1970 saw the continuation of the activism of the previous decade, especially the women and other minority groups who were fighting for equal opportunities in the social and political realm.

Certainly, the changes in the political and economic worldview were the inevitable consequence of these conquests, but beyond that, the caliphate succeeded not to surrender to the growing external dangers and did not fail to [...]

He was much fascinated with Marco Polo who had managed to travel across Europe to India in reaching the far East, and it was in this context that the idea was born in him to [...]

Sometimes he is fictionalized in films and literature that people of the present age who have not known the real history behind the fiction believe that Jack the Ripper is just a figment of a [...]

Epistemologically, the principle of harmony implies that our understanding of the universe needs not only to consider geometry but also harmony, the complementary facet to the geometrical nature of the universe.

Hammurabi ascended the throne of Babylonia during 1800 BC and he was the from the Amorite dynasty and the sixth king of the kingdom.

It galvanized the enemy and opponents of the war in both Vietnam and America and led many to question the ethics of the campaigns.

The processes of production in the textile industry were many and disorganized. The processes of production in the textile industry were many and disorganized.

During the depression, the population experienced intense pain and extensive misery and the event has been blamed for leading to calamities such as World War II and the rising to power of Adolf Hitler.

The course of this war and the way it affected the people who suffered from it presents the main concern for the author of the book.

Second, Richelieu was aware of the benefits navies gave to England and the Netherlands. Renaissance was related to the Counterreformation and the wars of religion in the sixteenth century.

The government was not inclined to spend too much costs at African education and thus the role of Christian missionary schools was maintained in education of African population.

Even these facts from the author's biography make "The Shoemaker and the Tea Party" a reliable source of the knowledge on the American past."The Shoemaker and the Tea Party" is based on the story of [...]

The main reasons were the reformist and the conservatives. This was the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right.

In "Power", Emerson emphasizes the significance of vital energy and the sentiment of power as a criterion of validity. In "Domestic Life" Emerson outlines the philosophical concept of a house and his thoughts on hospitality.

In the case of Zwingli, who had the power of the city council of Zurich and other cities in Switzerland, the discontent of the Catholic church took the form of military actions between the two [...]

The 1980s would not be considered a Go-Go economy as there was significant instability in the earlier years of the decade with the adoption of Reaganomics.

In Anonimalle Chronicle, the peasants are also introduced as foolish, although the author focuses on one of the leaders of the rebellion, Wat Tyler, and his lack of manners.

This paper addresses some key figures and events in the history of the United States of America with an attempt to analyze the processes and ideas that formed the future of the country.

This paper will describe the Roman civilization, some important moments in its history, and how it interacted with Islamic civilization. Some of the most important parts of Roman history are related to the changes in [...]

The goal of this paper, therefore, is to discuss the manner in which self-directed learning has helped me to understand the topic concerning ancient history in Greece and Rome.

This was the reason why he declared that the country was ready to be independent and free. His efforts and actions led to the emancipation of many individuals in this country.

He thinks that the black people who fought alongside the British during the 1812-14 wars were regarded as "loyalists" and had an almost equal recognition as that given to the white loyalists before the war, [...]

Also, an overview of the impacts on the Arab World is provided to enhance the understanding of the issue and its significance for the region. First, the military performance of the empire was in a [...]

Thus, the doctrine typical to western Europe of the Roman Imperial Age, the Middle Ages, and the beginning of the Modern Age favored the development of the Empire and Monarchies.

This paper aims to reveal the cause of the problems faced by the United States and Germany as identified by their leaders in inaugural speeches and the ways Roosevelt and Hitler were planning to solve [...]

He hoped to share his fame and reach the mind of the general public in this way. As a result of the debates, Lincoln's name and his position became known to the wide population even [...]

Soviet approaches led to the rise of the new political and economic elite, which was against the principles and objectives of communism.

Though, the discovery of the power of the atom and the creation of a weapon that explores it to make the destructive effect stronger had altered the approach to warfare radically and introduced the threat [...]

He was challenged in the area of writing and was incapacitated without the skill and ability to write letters to Mr. He was then to be imprisoned, and inside the four walls of the prison, [...]

The author explains the reasons for such rapid grown by stating that the USA was destined to become the world's cotton farm due to the having the three main components required for the production of [...]

It is against this backdrop that this paper explores the Meiji restoration and also uses pictures and image arts to appreciate the differences in time and models that were dominant during the imperial rule.

The book The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage represents the work on the history of the Australian Aborigines and answers the question of how they managed to survive under [...]

The article "The Spain Among Us" written by Henry Wiencek discusses the Spain's influence on the history of the United States.

Mandela displayed humility in various ways in his fight for the liberation of the Black people in South Africa. His persistence in the fight for freedom is an indication that he is a strong willed [...]

In the year 1966, Mao Zedong felt that the leaders of the communist party in china were leading not only the party but the entire country in the wrong direction.

The industrialization was inevitable in Britain because: Britain has already been one of the leading countries in the world. In the following paper, the background and significance of the industrialization will be discussed.

These observations on Egyptian civilization assisted many in understanding the daunting challenges human beings experienced in terms of: the nature of human relationships; the nature of the universe; and the role of the divine forces [...]

The borders of the island to the south are the Philippines's batanes islands, to the east the Ryukyu Islands and to the north the East China Sea and the islands of Japan.

The pioneers first settled on the East and they set out to conquer and establish settlements in the west of the country. In the minds of many Americans, the cowboy embodies the virtues of the [...]

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.

It was a very short notice and since I had counted on working on my telephone project in the spring of 1870, I was at first not ready to move with my parents.

The global trade experienced in the middle part of the 20th century can trace its roots to the Industrial Revolution that occurred in the 19th century.

In spite of this, the Chinese government has been presenting claims that Taiwan is part of China and this government is ready to engage in a war in case any international actor holds recognition that [...]