The survival of this group of people is attributed to the strong leadership of their king Moshoeshoe the Great that was necessitated by frequent cattle raids.
The next natural thing that the inventors of the wheel did was to design the axle so that it could fit into the hole made in the centre of the wooden wheel.
The area commonly known as Western Sudan comprises a broad stretch of the savanna between the expansive Sahara Desert to the North and the South's tropical rainforest.
In the state of Virginia during the 17th century, human labor was imperative due to the pressing need to grow enough food to serve the people in the community during the winter spell hence the [...]
The Second Indochina War began in 1959, five years after the division of the country, according to the Geneva Agreement. South Vietnam's troops failed to substitute American soldiers, and in 1974 the peace agreement was [...]
The Zulu people live on the continent of Africa, in the southern part of it, which is known as KwaZulu-Natal. In this family, the husband stands for the chief, and institution of marriage is hallowed.
In this system, the means of product and service production is mainly carried out and owned by the individuals instead of the government while communism also known as fascism is contrary to this where production [...]
At the time when strained relations between the US and the Soviet Union ended, the financial systems of several countries, particularly those in Eastern Europe, were in the process of collapsing.
The prominent dynasties that had significance in the social and the political phases of China included the Shang dynasty and the Ch'in the Chou dynasty.
The main reason that the Confederacy succeeded from the Union was the issue of States' rights which are guaranteed by the Constitution but were almost completely lost following the Civil War.
The Cold War became a global geopolitical, military, and economic confrontation between the two blocs of states, the centers of which were the United States and the USSR, from 1946 to the end of 1980.
It demonstrates that the consequences of the bipolarity and the Cold War emerging from it were not positive because the world felt constant pressure resulting from the confrontation between the United States of America and [...]
Memoirs have subsequently been used in recording of past accounts as Fowale points out.[1] Memoirs express the truth in history due to the fact that they are primary sources of evidence and as such the [...]
Even though several reasons led to the states' formation, they were formed due to cultural homogeneity, political organization, trade and commerce, and military body. Trade and commerce also led to the formation of states in [...]
Based on an appreciation of the contribution of international trade to the growth and development of the medieval world, this paper explores the role of spice, salt, sugar, and silk as important trade commodities of [...]
The current paper aims to compare some of the most notable genocides in history, the Holocaust, and the Bosnian mass murder in terms of their aims, death tolls, tactics, and methods.
As a result of unbearable conditions from the Roman administration, the Visigoths revolted and conquered the Romans and killed their emperor Valens in Adrianople in the late 4th century.
The main differences between the revolutions lie in their origins: the American Revolution was stimulated by the unwillingness to pay higher tax revenues to Britain, the French one was stimulated by the willingness to replace [...]
They are sure that it is impossible to describe truth with the help of language, which presupposes that historical facts can also be questioned.
The oppression of rural areas and production and the prioritization of the urban population has become the main reason for the spread of poverty among the African population.
As such, the school of thought also challenges the notion that Western nationalism is the sole form of the phenomenon. This essay will discuss the dangers of nationalism, as seen from the postcolonial perspective, as [...]
Accordingly, the option for administration style came from the empire's direct connection to the previous failed Sejuks dynasty and the closeness to the monarchical Byzantine political structure.
The purpose of this paper is to compare the life during the 1800s and now based on the fact that the two eras coincide with two epochs of industrialization.
It can therefore be said that colonial rule gave rise to the two forces of unifying nationalism and divisive tribalism and that the appropriate and legitimate framework for decolonization was nationalism, which emanated from the [...]
The paper will highlight some of the accomplishments made by famous Muslim scientists in order to underscore the contribution of Islam to science. The House of Wisdom contributed to the advancement of research efforts by [...]
The two regimes had one political party that normally suppressed all the others claiming to represent the interest of the vast majority of their population.
The Busmen and the Maasai are two communities that are found in Africa and they inhabit the Eastern and Southern regions of the African continent, respectively.
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.
The paper examines the history of love starting from the ancient times then to the medieval chivalry and finally the contemporary period.
Analyzing Gorbachevs actions and his incentives in the economy of the USSR, it is possible to conclude that the primary aim of these actions was the destruction of the welfare of the country, the growth [...]
The laws were enacted to deal with marriage avoidance, the preference for childless unions, marriage of lower class women by the Roman elite, and adultery, all of which threatened the continuity of the Roman aristocracy.
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 in which the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the United States were involved was the turning point of the states' confrontation in the Cold War because of risks to develop [...]
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 [...]
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.
Focusing on two major issues - the difference between the native civilizations and the Western civilization in the context of sharing; and the depopulation of the natives in Bahama due to Spanish exploitation and natives [...]
The present is a myriad of events in the past. As a historian, the study of these preserved artifacts is important in knowing about the past.
War on Germany was declared only towards the end of the conflict in 1917. The main reason was the unwillingness of the United States to interfere in Europe affairs.
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 [...]
People learn more about the horrors of war through literature but do not infer from experience they gain; the only way they apply the knowledge about the war is the development of more sophisticated weapon [...]
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 [...]
By 1858, the British regained control and immediately passed the Government of India Act, which allowed the British Crown administrators to run the country instead of the British East India Company.
It was defined by rivalry and attacks between communist nations under the leadership of the Soviets and the Western democracies, more so 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 [...]
After the Second World War, there was a long period of tension between the democracies of the Western World and the communists' countries of Eastern Europe, which is called The Cold War.
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.
Human history has been shaped greatly by three periods: The industrial revolution, the period of enlightenment, the French revolution, and finally the period of protest and revolution 1815-1850.
The voyages were made in the Caribbean and Central America between 1492 and 1504 following the consent granted to him by the monarch. In the course of his expedition, he discovered and named the Island [...]
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.
The key mandate of United Nations Organization was to promote political, economical and social stability in the world. The European nations were in the process of recovering from the after math of the First World [...]
Certain ceremonies that demonstrated customary practices such as baptism and sacraments were abolished by the reformed churches, and this affected the lives of the people because the initial rituals used to shape the social lives [...]
Costs The nuclear arms race led to a monumental increase in the military expenditure of the US and the Soviet Union.
This series of military conflicts became a significant constituent of the history of interaction between Europeans and Native Americans and demonstrated the power of the concept of conflict partly forming these relationships.
The 20th century was the beginning of many social changes across the globe and several worldwide war conflicts that affected both Western and non-Western countries.
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 Ottoman empire came to decline as well, but it prospered for a considerably longer time, and its fall was largely determined by the pressure of political powers in Europe.
First of all, one should mention that the institutions have to be responsible for limiting the power of political leaders. This is one of the tasks that the Roman Senate had to cope with.
In the English colonies, the population comprised Europeans, Africans, and Indians. The French colonies were more lenient and more loyal in their policies.
Castro was proud of being a Cuban and he strived to create the Cuban identity. Castro deprived Cubans of the rights to life, liberty, and property.
It is seated in a valley that is about eight kilometers away from Mecca, the Holy City and one of the main destinations for the pilgrims during the celebration of Hajj.
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.
It dates back to the enactment of the Indian Act in 1876 by the Canadian regime to approve the Indian Status Administration.
In fact, what later came to be known as "Russia's Great October Socialist Revolution", was more of a political coup the members of Russia's Provisionary Government, which was formed after Czar's abdication in 1916, we [...]
One of the greatest events in the life of Sultan was his greatness through the increasing of the size of the Ottoman Empire.
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 [...]
It borders Argentina to the east, Peru to the north and finally Bolivia to the northeast. Before the landing of the Spanish colonizers during the 16th C, the Inca governed northern Chile while the indigenous [...]
In reference to Curtis8, it is important to assess the structures of the European states and the Great Powers systems before 1814 in an effort to understand the reasons behind the establishment of the Congress [...]
In order to appreciate and contextualize the importance of the past, it is crucial to consider how deeply people were affected by an event.
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 [...]
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 history of the US proves that people understand themselves and the others learning and interpreting historical events of the past.
The Trade barriers were believed to be the reasons for the war and to avoid war in the future the Bretton Woods system was introduced.
The Cold War was a significant period for the history of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Eastern Bloc, as well as other countries.
Consequently, the formation of alliances and foreign relationships enabled Brandenburg, which was economically weaker to expand to the capital-rich areas of the lower Rhine.
Schelling proposed that the power of deterrence in the nuclear age is pegged not only on the equality or balance of the nuclear-possessing countries, but on the "stability of the balance".
Among those events that Australia considers most important politically, economically as well as socially are the establishment of the colony of New South Wales, the Victorian Gold Rushes, the Federation in 1901 and the Second [...]
The signing of the Lisbon Treaty on December 13, 2009, transformed the structure of the European Community, which was subsequently renamed the European Union.
He described the Japanese as the best people known among the heathens.[2] "Portuguese Views of Chinese"[3] is an account of the first impression the Portuguese had upon encountering the Chinese.
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 paper will start with an overview of the prerequisites for Indian liberation following the role of the Indian Independence Act.
Despite the effects of colonization in the past and now, Aboriginal structures, customs and traditions continue to exist, and Aboriginal individuals, families, and communities remain strong and resilient.
The differences in the value that the English and the French attached to land and industry also contributed partly to the conflicts.
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.
They further had improved the system to bring water from the mountains to the cities of roman.most of Northwest Europe and almost all lands around the Mediterranean Sea were under the jurisdiction of the vast [...]
In this, it suffered the fate of "imperialism," which after 1900 was adopted by critics of European expansion to serve ideological purposes and used imprecisely to suggest both the annexation of territories and their subsequent [...]
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 [...]
This research will mainly focus on the importance of the Congress, the diplomatic approach taken by the Congress, and the major achievements of the Congress.
One of the major reasons for the Zulu's win was their numerical superiority as compared to the British. The ratio of Zulu to British soldiers was about 20 to 1.
The interaction of the two worlds described resulted to increased levels of development into modernity for millions of the people residing in the Eurasian continent.
The Tainos are said to have stayed in the island peacefully until the Spanish arrival which is said to have caused a lot of unrest in the island.
8 million people live in the Republic of Ireland while the rest inhabit Northern part of Ireland and is part of the United Kingdom.
In the history of nations that throve on the territories of North America and Australia, the nineteenth century is marked by a series of gold rushes that forever changed the ways of development in economical [...]
Meilan Solly, in her article published in 2019 and titled "This Map Shows the Scale Of 16th and 17th Century Scottish Witch Hunts", explains the stories of witchcraft practice in Scotland between 1590 and 1727.
Sugar in Europe appeared during the Crusades the Arabs introduced sugar cane to the Crusaders. Sugar cane is a driver of innovation and international trade in the context of world history.
The Russo-Japanese War was a turning point in the world's history and a fundamental factor for the rest of the XX century.
The author analyses the behavior of the Spanish explorers to the region and the resultant behavior and changes that were faced by the local people in the region, namely the American Indians and the Aztecs [...]
2 As a result, this led to ideological differences and social perceptions among the two countries, which potentially contributed to the growing tensions in the political sphere that led to World War I.
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire, with a lot of focus on the factors that were very instrumental in the decline of the Empire.
The aim of this essay is to describe the system of castes in India as well as to characterize the diversity of Indian society. In general, the caste system in India represents the stratified hierarchy [...]
Evidently the perception of South Africa as an overseas investment saw the exclusion of the locals in the participation of the mining business.
The effects of the war included the loss of sovereignty of the Aztecs as the second attack by Cortes led to the defeat of the natives.
This approach sets to highlight the economic history of the society by examining the modes of production used in the society through time.
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.
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 [...]
Bolsheviks constituted the largest radical group in revolutionary Russia that played the most important role in the initiation and the course of the revolution.
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.
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 [...]
The large revenue from oil has stirred the growth and development of the other sectors of the economies thus widening the economic belt of these Arab states.
Anglicans however, had a major effect in the founding of public schools, which emphasized the teaching of Latin and Greek, and which were proposed to educate youth for future positions of occupational and social leadership [...]
The first is the definition of empires i.e.what is an empire? This is prevalent in many empires ranging from the Roman to the British Empire
One side of the Turkish nation supported the movements of Ataturk and this action was under the name of "Kemalism", while the other side of the Turkish nation supported the traditional religious rules to be [...]
The connection with the sea resulted in the initiative taken by the people to settle in faraway colonies on the American mainland.
At the risk of their own lives, they brought the only little food that they could get to feed others in the camp.
The description of the earliest political and economic relations from the historical point of view can be seen in the works of Oren, where he tracks the history of the US and the countries of [...]
Tanzania is the country with a rich history that began with the migration of the first Cushitic tribes, continued with its colonization by Germany and Britain and its struggle for independence, and resulted in the [...]
The industrial revolution in Europe forced powerful states in the continent to acquire colonies in Africa with the aim of securing raw materials and cheap human labor.
For instance, one can mention the formation of ANZAC or the troops formed by the soldiers for Australia and New Zealand.
The skills learnt in farming were of great help to the colonies since they applied them in their farms after independence and this accelerated their modernization process.
In as much as there was a lot of changes in terms of the institutions that were present; together with the environmental conditions surrounding the changes, the economic play was so relevant and of great [...]
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union was marked by Operation Barbarossa, the primary purpose of which was the rapid seizure of the western part of the territories of the USSR for the subsequent settlement [...]
Consequently, I think that the cons of colonization outweigh the pros of the process, and the world might have been in a better state.