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He is referred to as the founding father of the nation for the role he played in fighting for independence. S constitution and in 1787, he became the head of the United States of America.

Gandhi played a monumental role in the liberation of India from the colonial rule and his approach inspired many people across the globe.

In addition, effects of the war, capturing of Babylonia's cities, and destruction of the Babylon's walls by the Syrians made the situation worse for Babylonia, hence leading to its downfall.

The Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the Cuban Revolution of the 1960s show that the Revolution's tentacles may spread far and wide due to preexisting sociopolitical, economic, and cultural systems.

The Byzantine Empire, which emerged in the East, claimed to be the legitimate successor of the Roman Empire, and its rulers continued to use the title of 'Emperor.' The Byzantine Empire maintained much of the [...]

For the most part, these messages appear in stock images that show a large group of people who seek to prove their worth to the enemy.

The trans-Saharan slave trade was driven by the increased demand for slave labor, the use of slaves as legal tender, and the decline in gold and other products in sub-Saharan Africa.

Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and traveler who presented the story of his travels in Asia in the famous Book of the Diversity of the World.

Admittedly, scientific culture and curiosity, the need for glory, seeking to spread religion, and the desire for economic dominance, are the main factors that resulted in the rise of the Age of Exploration in Europe.

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 emergence of midwifery in the city clashed with the arrival of the Irish which is hardly a coincidence seeing how the practice was common with Europeans.

However, the further change in the attitude to the processes and their reconsideration indicated the strong impact of Enlightenment ideas and their spread over the region.

By their example, these two great men emphasize the right to freedom, self-determination of people of African descent, worthy of equal rights and freedoms with the white population.

Before discussing the specific impact that the inquisition left on the native and mestizo population of Peru, it is necessary to cover the origins of the Spanish inquisition itself.

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.

The confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War resulted in international crises. The USSR made a scientific breakthrough in the field of space during the Cold War.

In the late 1870s, the Farmers Alliance was established to fight for the lower social classes' freedom and success. The 1890s marked a significant evolution of the Alliance to the People's Party that did not [...]

It helps in understanding the main ideas the Canadian government used in the past to build a national identity, and in comparing these ideas to the current political direction.

The concepts of imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism were particularly prominent and essential in the 19th and 20th centuries. In conclusion, imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism played a key role in the course of the 19th and [...]

In this paper, Hammurabi's laws number five and twenty-one will be evaluated as the guidelines that secured the ideas of justice and property protection, which were of particular significance to the Babylonians.

American Revolution is one of the most prominent and groundbreaking events in the history of the United States of America. One of the most interesting facts from the video was the usage of clothing and [...]

According to Atienza and Howden, "the discovery of the New World and the vast hordes of gold and new riches was a springboard vaulting Spain from a barely-known kingdom in medieval Europe, to the most [...]

The US and other world governments adopted similar containment measures to both the 1918 influenza and COVID-19, as the two diseases share a major characteristic of being contagious.

The period of the 1970s 2000s is the most vivid for understanding the impact of the process of globalization and changes in the world order.

The main agenda of WSPU was to accelerate the process of women's emancipation and hold the government accountable for the delays.

Armed conflicts and military operations are the primary responsibilities of the commander's mission and the complex issue to examine. The perception of the Vietnamese War in 1969 was torn between the American population and the [...]

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 [...]

Overall, the evaluation of the facts shows that the EU is a unique union of independent countries having not many similarities with the other political formations in the world including the US.

If we address, for example, the Encyclopedia Britannica, it will state that "...the writing of history, especially the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources, the selection of particular details from the [...]

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 [...]

The Civilization in Sumer was the first in the world starting from the early Bronze Age. The women here had the authority over the religious group and were held in high esteem.

The crops which were grown in the state was maize and wheat, also, fish contributed to the economy of the Massachusetts State.

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.

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 [...]

During the reign of the Northern Song, the dynasty wielded a lot of influence in the whole of China. On the other hand, the Southern Song Dynasty refers to the reign of the Song Dynasty [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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.

This development has been researched and most of the research dwells on the activities of the Islamic rise between the seventh century and the 15th century.

It is necessary to stress the idea that the author depicted tragedy and human sufferings through dramatizing the life of the society in the 20th century; it is the expression of Palestinian identity from the [...]

Fishing is done in the rivers which are many in the Amazon basin through the use of canoes and their traditional fishing gear such as traps and spears.

When talking of the Hellenistic Age, it refers to the time period of about 30 years between the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of the Roman Empire under the leadership of Augustus [...]

By the time of Genghis Khan's death in 1227, Mongol Empire was stretching from the easternmost shores of China to the Caspian Sea.

Before the onset of the Great Depression from the years 1919-1929, Canada had the fastest growing economy amongst the developing nations and the only blip to this record was the slight recession they suffered during [...]

The reconstruction began in the era of Abraham Lincoln when the Federal troops were deployed to controlled most of the states.

Originally, Orientalism is the division of philosophical, historical, cultural and political studies, that relate the place and the role of the Eastern countries in the world politics, and the lives of the other countries all [...]

According to Stewart the vehicle that enabled Asia to realize what it realized at the time was the huge enterprises of thousands of people and the massive number of beast of labor such as donkeys [...]

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

The history of Mesopotamia traces back to the emergence of the urban centers in the Middle East in the 4th millennium.

His teachings were focused on the ability to ritualize life; one of the main focuses of those teachings was that the majority of the problems in society were the result of individuals forgetting their proper [...]

The Macedonian empire was characterized by a heavy cavalry due to the broad plains of the area that enabled the raising of horses, and the monarchical system of government provided the landholding nobility used to [...]

The Zulu nation had been invaded by Voortrekkers and up to the time it was subdued by the British, it had fought numerous battles and even when the Zulu finally lost to the British, they [...]

Throughout the essay, he puts a lot of words and phrases in quotation marks to underline the unique and figurative meaning of these phrases.

Besides the record-high surpluses and the record-low poverty rates, the economy could boast the longest economic expansion in history; the lowest unemployment since the early 1970s; and the lowest poverty rates for single mothers, black [...]

The results of the revolutions were creation of many independent countries in the Latin American Region. The changes and transformations that were brought about by the global trade contributed greatly to the revolutions in Latin [...]

The first pieces of evidence supporting the assumption about the Negro origin of the Ancient Egyptian civilization are the old ethnographic descriptions of the North African regions and peoples.

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.

With a lack of success, Nixon applied Keynesian economics to unbalance the budget with the purpose to stimulate demand and employment.

The importance of water for Babylonian infrastructure, thus, became leading, influencing the lives of peasants through the necessity of irrigation and the lives of city-dwellers through the integration of water canals into the city's infrastructure.

The first step in evaluating the justice of the Code of Hammurabi is the examination of the judge's position. As mentioned above, Hammurabi was not the first Mesopotamian king to create a set of laws [...]

The main argument of Diamond's thesis is that historical inequalities between the whites and the New Guineans are not products of biological differences.

World War 2 remains one of the most significant and historically important events in the entire world because the United States of America, Japan, and the majority of European countries were involved in it.

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is one of the most significant events in the history of the United States. C, and was one of the most shocking events of the era, resulting in a long [...]

The attempt to use her magical powers to punish the offender and recover the goods led to her arrest for practicing witchcraft. She astonished them, and the jury, and the residents had more reason to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The author of this masterpiece wanted to illuminate the challenges faced by many African Americans in the Jim Crow South. The book indicates that the construct of Jim Crow brought numerous troubles to many Africans [...]

However, the House of Representatives experiences aristocratic democracy because the bills generated in this house are subject to negative reviews of the president and the upper house.

In this paper, a variety of aspects and contributing factors of the evolution will be discussed including putting-out system, the three unique sets of Britain's advantages that stimulated the process of industrialization, the support of [...]

The idea was to redistribute the wealth of the upper class among the poorer cohort of the population in order to achieve this equality, but it was also vital to communism that all manufacturing be [...]

What is important is the value that people place on whatever unit they refer to as amoney.' Money acts as a medium of exchange and an element of measurement of the value of goods and [...]

The chapter "Dreams of Avarice" of the book "The Ascent of Money" explores different stages of development of money functioning in the world by relating them to corresponding historical events.

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 [...]

The first viewpoint regarding the Spaniards conquest of the Americas on the Aztec Empire is the idea of Jared Diamond that environmental and geographical differences made the Americas lose the battle.

The destiny of the country was about to change after the end of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong.

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.

These personalities change the image of the world forever and lead to the appearance of some unique phenomena which predetermine the further development of society and the whole world.

The leading opinion on the matter suggests that the true reasons for the collapse of the state include both internal and external factors; brought together into a system, they have served to destroy the once [...]

As the family is rich, the floor mosaics should be an integral part of the villa demonstrating the wealth of the family.

In this paper, the author focused on this period to analyze the whole element of the Golden Age. In addition, the author focused on the actual technological advancements of the period.

In this essay, the stressors are outlined, a major stressor is identified from among the many and how the renaissance society responded to the stressor is discussed in detail. The rebellion by peasants caused a [...]

The riots, which started on April 29, 1992, were considered to be peaceful, and the only purpose that the rebels wanted to achieve was to protest against the verdict of the courthouse.

In addition to the fact that the spies who carried out the act were part of his reelection campaign team, there was evidence proving that he created a hush fund to protect them from prosecution.

Economic growth as a result of Reagan's and Clinton's presidency can be seen as one of the main reasons to consider both presidents effective leaders.

It is irrefutable that the first chapter of the book is a vivid discussion of ancient territories and their influence in the development of modern empires.

Understanding the document first requires one to understand the historical background of the Roman Empire: the formation of the Republic and its collapse.

These examples indicate that the legacies of slavery were difficult to overcome, even though many people living in the American South did not support racial ideology.

The abolition of slavery in the United States did eliminate the power structures that contributed to the oppression of African-Americans. Overall, it is possible to say at the beginning of the twentieth century, African-American people [...]

Within a short period, Suu had become the leader of the largest revolt in the country. Suu was able to set the right example for the people of Burma.

Historical time is an essential element for the validity and eligibility of a historic work for the main objective of history is to tell of the facts about the past.

Motivated by these historical events in the lives of Aboriginals this research paper intends to investigate and explore the issue of Trauma among Aboriginals: how it originated, how it was facilitated, the impacts manifested through [...]

The next section of the essay will be the critical analysis part, which will illuminate on issues such as the sources of information for the book, how professional it is, and the credibility of the [...]

This forth stage is the one that determines the survival of the state, as the society is already discontented with the rule, hence disintegration of the state.

Ibn Firnas created a workshop in which he performed various experiments. In the field of astronomy, Ibn Firnas created various instruments that he applied in studying the sky.

It is generally believed that the fall of the Ottoman Empire gave rise to the creation of the modern Middle East.

Lack of enough knowledge of land terrains among Germans and high population of their enemies may also have contributed to German loss in the war.

Since historically men's position used to be superior to the one of women, feminist ideas have been brewing in the society for quite long.

The standardisation of European languages led to a great development of the European literature and the creation of national ideologies and mythologies in different countries.

At the beginning of 1808 however, Napoleon made a major mistake of making an intervention in a political court case in the Spanish court out of opportunism, and the thought that this would cement his [...]

The black movement passed a message of thinking about the racial identity and the empowerment of the free blacks in the United States.

This was not a mere rhetoric considering that writers on the Roman agriculture also highlighted the decline in land productivity either due to the land being old or because of humans' failure to preserve the [...]

It is only through humble submission as evidenced by the willingness to listen to the admonition and suggestions of a superior that the qualities of a good leader can be established in the person's heart [...]

The supporters of humanistic theory agree with the ideas of great influence of people on the development of science. The emergence of the Western culture has given rise to the development of new directions of [...]

The peculiarities of the Western culture in the early 21st century depend on the heritage of the 20th century with its orientation to the social, economic, scientific and technological progress.

His Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation was the call for all German nobles in order to reform the church and prove that the Bible was the only reliable source about Christ, [...]

The period after the Second World War saw the emergence and expansion of the world economies. Countries such as Japan and China started rebuilding their economies so as to compete with the rest of the [...]

The country was then an already operational state was being ruled by monarchy."The political and constitutional changes that came in the wake of the French Revolution led to the transfer of sovereignty from the monarchy [...]

This paper explores the role of women in the medieval period and determines the impact of the medieval period on the feminism of the nineteenth century.

The rules and policies produced by the international laws state that as long as there is intent to systematically get rid of a group of people and there is the act itself, it is genocide.

The computer It is impossible for the human race to think of the world in the absence of computers. The airplane The significance of the airplane in the 20th century can be equated to the [...]

As the paper reveals, the role of women in America was then a replica of the role of other women especially in Britain where it was well documented.

After the success of the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini was subsequently named as the religious and political leader of the Islamic republic of Iran for life.

The powerful individuals, whose aim was to fulfil the interests of the owners of the means production, controlled the revolution. After the revolution, the Communist Party readjusted its objectives to reflect the aims of the [...]

The paper discusses the nature of the cultural influence between the Romans and the Greek revealing the commonalities and discrepancies existing between the two.

Once alcohol had become a part of the community, there was a gradual shift in the health of the people and they succumbed to illnesses.

Although the novel is a fictional account of the lives of women and immigrant workers in the US, it gives us an insight of the lives and struggles of immigrant women in America.

For example, women in the Navy Nurse Corps and Army Nurse Corp were sent to take part in the Vietnam War and the Korean War.

The book, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' is both an indictment of slavery and a call to action for its abolition.