The Europeans came and took over the land of the Aboriginal people and even adopted their methods of farming. According to Tony Stephens who reviewed the book by Gammage, the author's aim was to inform [...]
During the 16th and 17th century, the Spanish empire was one of the strongest empires in the world. Later on, during the 19th and 20th century, the British Empire became the largest and strongest empire [...]
The capture of Constantinople by Ottoman in 1453 led to a stop of the movement of slaves from the Balkans and the Black Sea region.
Most of the other literatures detailing the use of the catapult claim that the inspiration came from the bow and sling, which is well known to be a popular weapon in the ancient times.
The activities of this era resulted in the interaction of people from different backgrounds and linked most parts of the world together.
The authors address the viewpoint that Islam is one of the major causes of conflicts which took place in the world lately.
The period 1945-1990, referred to as the cold world war, arose because of national conflicting interests between the United States and the Soviet Union over the future of Europe.
The historical recordings of past events are very important in the understanding of the actual happenings, analysis of the flow of past events, understanding the factors influencing past occurrences, explanations of the effects of such [...]
The urge for a reformation was also spurred by the emergence of humanistic philosophies and the spirit of the Renaissance, which drew increased attention to the teachings of the Bible and had the tendency of [...]
In his description of the war, it is clear that Europe played a key role towards the formation of the war alliances.
In countries like Japan, class mantra was the order of the day in the areas that were controlled by communists, the CCP which was the main political party was against agrarian radicalism and hence abandoned [...]
This is exactly the reason why USSR was doomed to collapse in just about every society, the functioning of which is being concerned with the observance of Socialist principles, the prolonged continuation of social, cultural [...]
The 1700s and 1800s marked the beginning of the change that took effect and entirely transformed the world's history in all fields.
Notably, even the discovery of America was indirectly provoked by the fact that the Silk Road stopped delivering spices to Europe and needed a new route to eastern countries due to the campaigns and wars [...]
Protecting religious institutions and advancing religious education are mentioned in the General Act of the Congo Free State, which shows the desire of the European powers to spread Christianity among the native people.
The rapid rise of Idi Amin to power and the subsequent seizure of the government that ruled Uganda at the time demonstrates that unethical people will seek to establish control over citizens as soon as [...]
Turner specified that from 1965 until 1970, the Middle East was in a state of cold war due to the attempts of Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon, backed by the U.S.S.
Early on in the history of colonial America, the majority of Africans' traits were good, and the colonists relied on this labor force as a foundation for their future.
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.
The majority of the writings in this anthology deal with the background and consequences of the events in Iran in 1953.
You can include a general introduction of the issue in the first sentence, but move to a clear statement of the research problem being addressed.
Jared Diamond is among such scientists, and his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, comments on how ancient cultures developed and explains why Eurasia dominated the rest of the world.
Many of the consequences are seen today, including the relations between Europe, North America, China, and Russia, the US influence in other countries, and the expansion of military power and nuclear threat.
In the political context, Elsipogtog is a member of the Mi'kmaq Grand Council, and at the local level, the community chooses the chief every four years. The economy in Elsipogtog First Nation is developing through [...]
Marco Polo served for 17 years at the court of the Khan, and following his order, he traveled to almost all provinces of modern China and wrote a book about the country.
In contrast, Aztec creation stories are based on dismembered gods, and thus the origin of the world is catastrophic violence, which explains why Aztec art depicts divinity as gruesome and awe-inspiring.
Although the Angel Island Immigration Station was often referred to as the "Ellis Island" of the West, the conditions in these sites were very different, and so was the treatment of the arriving immigrants.
The Victorian era and modern American have similarities in how the people live in the two ages. Most people have disrespect and ignorance of everything in the current world.
The term "colonialism" is used to characterize the system of domination of the developed countries of Europe and the USA. At the end of the XIX century, the dependent territories and colonies came under the [...]
On the right side of the screen, there is another enumeration of the world's civilizations this time as a classical list, with embedded links as well.
These narratives reveal all the hardships and distinctions between slaves and free people, showing the enormous gap between their attitudes to life and the course of living.
The purpose of this paper is to describe the Industrial Revolution and the new forms of economic activity it created, including mass production and mass consumption, as well as discuss its connection to slavery.
Thus, the country's main river occupies a central place in the peculiarities of the culture and development of Egypt. Being a transit region, Egypt also managed to absorb the influence of other areas and enrich [...]
The most important policies developed under the blanket of Elizabethan Poor Laws were the distinctions between the types of poor, the differentiation of types of assistance offered to the poor, and the means of reimbursement [...]
Both the article and the book try to explain the disappearance of the Roanoke colony and the possible fate of settlement.
It implied a great desire to explore new lands and expand the territories of states, which prompted journeys and the discovery of sea routes.
Samantha Power calls the muteness of the American public to the problems of Africa as one of the main reasons for the inaction of the world community regarding the events taking place in the country.[3] [...]
Puchner shows how people realized that kings and queens were not immortal, the differences between the diverse social classes, and the relationships between men and women. He reveals the relationship between humanity and nature and [...]
In broad terms, one may define the Industrial Revolution as the shift to factory production signified by the use of machinery and collective organization of labor.
Its adoption in Europe marked a significant milestone in terms of state development, as the use of gunpowder technology catalyzed the emergence of centralized states and the abolition of feudalism.
Thus, the trade routes acted as major contributors to the rise of the Ghana and Songhai kingdoms, making them dominant. The external trade in the Sahel and internal riverine trade along the Niger were sources [...]
The rise of the Nazi ideology is linked to the development of racial antisemitism, a radical form of intolerance towards Jews, the largest manifestation of the Holocaust.
The discovery of the Americas and the Caribbean islands significantly changed the sugar market. Slavery became the versatile and cost-effective way to ensure the survival of the Caribbean and American sugar plantations, and the sugar [...]
The rule of the Sui Dynasty officially started when Yang Jian with the help of the military overthrew and killed the previous Emperor's family.
The narrative of invasions was embedded into the history of Gaels, with the author of the book drawing the attention of the audience to the change in the subject matter.
The Hernandez's right to be judged by the representatives of the same ethnicity was established by the Supreme Court's decision and accentuated the changes that started to occur in the domain of social equality at [...]
At the same time, inside of the country the Government was facing a threat from the Communist protesters. He called these threats "the disease of the heart" and "the disease of the skin".
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 [...]
Prophet Muhammad always employed war, in order for him to achieve his goal in spreading Islamic faith, to the people who did not want to embrace the new faith of Islam.
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 [...]
Michael Cook's "A Brief History of the Human Race" portrays the general outline of global human history over the past 10,000 years.
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.
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 [...]
In his essay "State Violence as Technique" Peter Holquist states that eliminating certain categories of people, for instance "Kulaks", was performed by Stalin with the purpose of perfecting communism; his essay is coherent and well-written, [...]
During the 1st century, the double currency was stable and towards the end of 2nd century, the denars equivalent to gold started to rise.
The strong points of this company are located in settlements in the Caribbean Sea and in the colony of New Netherlands.
Introduction: Looks at the events just before Stalin assumed power immediately after Lenin's death Body: Looks at how Stalin came to power and how he tightened his grip using government machinery as well as [...]
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.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, three major Muslim empires were formed and established namely; the Mughal empire, which dominated the greater India, Safavid which ruled the greater Iran, and the Ottoman Empire which ruled [...]
The queries and the answers of the Oracle are contained in the succeeding paragraphs. The Oracle clarified that the conundrum, of the nature of history, whether it is cyclic or linear, depends upon the perceptions [...]
This war led to the introduction of the parliamentary democracy system of governance in England and the abolition of absolute power by the monarch.
First of all, arguing on the matters of the inevitability of World War II it is necessary to point out, that the causes of it take the roots at the end of World War I, [...]
The Republican government won by narrow margins which lead to the emergence of the Spanish Civil war. The war also weakened the power of the countries which were considered to be superpowers.
The approval of the religious sects was granted when the ceremony anointing him as Emperor was officiated by the head of the Church.
The history of propaganda shows that some means of encouraging the troops, or discouraging the enemy were undertaken in the ancient times, and the times have preserved and brought up the names of the greatest [...]
In the 15th century, the same Portuguese began exploring the western coast of Africa there by passing the Arabs merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves.
This remnant from the past reflects the time when the Franks took over the Burgundians and influenced both the language and culture of the Burgundians.
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 [...]
Throughout the essay, he puts a lot of words and phrases in quotation marks to underline the unique and figurative meaning of these phrases.
As Martin remarks, Edison and Tesla laid the foundations of the entire electrification system and, working in the USA, contributed significantly to the development of the technological base of the country. Edison and Tesla had [...]
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.
The seven pillars of wisdom were developed from the first seven out of the nine beatitudes contained in the book of Mathew in the holy bible. In short, the British looked forward to defeating the [...]
The need for new markets and raw materials, missionary work, new military conflicts, and new ideology were the main reasons for the new imperialism.
This paper explores the nature of the relationship between the human, the state, and the supernatural in pre-industrial societies. One case of a state in which religion provided a structure for the political establishment is [...]
The emergence of shared spaces open to scientific debate contributed to the propagation of the inquiring spirit of the era, which helped to shape the cultures of many European states.
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.
One of the reasons for that is the fact that every state wants to be the most powerful within the institution, especially when it comes to security.
In his arguments, Edward Said claims that the Europeans categorized the world into two divisions; the Occidents and the Orientals, in other words, they were referring to a world of the civilized and the primitive.
These moral preconditions of the emergence of money, the social conventions that regulate and control it, and the evolvement of its status in the present-day world can be regarded as the most significant events in [...]
One of the greatest revolutions in the ascent of money after the creation of credit banks, the center of the discussion in this chapter is on how issuing bonds can help governments to borrow money [...]
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 beginning of the Industrial Revolution is shown both in the article and the book focusing on terrible working conditions in the factories.
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.
Various assessments of the events that took place in Iran require an in-depth revision of the history of the constitutional revolution studying its background and impact of this revolution on the subsequent social and political [...]
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.
The Quran, which is the Holy book of the Islamic religion, played a key role in the grounding of the slave trade in the Muslim community.
This is a scenario that has occurred with the Nazi, under the command of Adolf Hitler, and the story of Jim Jones, and the people who followed him in a quest to build an ideal [...]
The cause of the attack notwithstanding, Japan was determined to strike the American Pacific Fleet and she never relented on this pursuit.
Slavery existed in the African continent in form of indentured servitude in the previous years, but Atlantic slave trade changed the system, as people were captured by force through raids before being sold to other [...]
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.
People used religion to explain the happenings of and within the universe by viewing the universe as godly beginning with nothing to do with scientific development.
In France, Voltaire and colleagues struggled to enlighten the society that strongly held the culture of church and monarchy.d'Alembert, Montesquieu, and Pierre were some of the arebellious' who supported Voltaire in the campaign for freedom [...]
In spite of the evolution of a uniquely Australian cricket in the country, the mark of imperialism and Anglo dominance remained.
After the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, there were still huge amounts of nuclear weapons that left on the face of the earth.
The practical use of rubber was not well developed until 1800s when the first rubber factory was built in the United Kingdom, France and the United States increasing the demand of the product in the [...]
The historical influence that the marines or the navy has had on international trade and the complications in comparing measures of sea power has been issues of discussion in the past.
One of the characteristics of the new imperialism was that Britain was no longer a major economic and political power in the world politics due to the emergence of other powers such as the United [...]
However, the reasoning of freedom fighters, including the officials of the National Congress Movement, was that helping the British to win the war would elevate the status of India.
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 [...]
As the Ottoman Empire was getting more and more dominated by western nations, Europe used the chance to market itself in the territory as a way of assisting them.
Some historians claim that the foremost thing that led to the Revolutionary War was the influx of Europeans into the land of America and the dictatorial control.
In a democratic nation, the leader is appointed by the people through a fair vote, the public is considered to be the center of the government and the common goals and interests are based on [...]
Therefore, this paper examines the state of pre-colonial African societies, factors that led to European colonization of Africa, British colonial rule in Africa, and the impact of British colonialism on the postcolonial African states.
The League of Nations was meant to create order in the world after the world war one that led to destruction.
This paper seeks to highlight on the issue of The Atlantic Slave Trade in relation to factors that led to the Atlantic Slave trade, how the Atlantic slave trade operated, effects of the Atlantic slave [...]
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 issue of the partitioning of India into India and Pakistan in 1947 was a change that was unnecessary based on the reasons that fuelled it as well as the evident outcomes of the change.
The Safavid empire became very dominant and maintained its authority due to their ability of linking power and religion; in fact this empire advocated the ideology that power was attached to religion which was the [...]
The Twelve Tables and The Prince by Machiavelli promote a better understanding of the history and ancient activities of stabilizing the relationships between rich and poor people.
However, in comparison with Chapter 7 in "Empire of Cotton," the text in the second book covers a wider range of topics in addition to the initial discussion of workers' rights and their rebels.
Amidst these horrifying circumstances, the agonized cries of women and the mournful groans of the dying set a scene of abject horror, etching the Middle Passage into the collective memory as an ordeal that haunted [...]
Turning to the North Europeans the Swedish, Dutch, and French there is a rich tapestry of beliefs. Protestantism is prevalent among the Swedish and Dutch, whereas the French have a solid Catholic lean, especially with [...]
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies is a report for the King of Spain that explores the acts of violence and gold accumulation of Spanish colonizers in the New World.
The central thesis of this text is that the Berlin Conference is often unfairly considered the starting point of colonialism in Africa.
Intensified hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union were a hallmark of the Cold War period, which lasted from the late 1940s until the early 1990s.
The most remarkable examples of its impacts are reflected in the colonized countries of Asia and Africa, specifically in different aspects of their lives.
Industrialization was a major turning point in the modern era, as it led to the mass production of goods and the growth of the global economy.
Anita's story reveals the experience of a ghetto in Vienna and further refuge before WWII with the challenges of adaptation to the new environment and reconciliation with her family.
The core difference in points of view between British rulers and North American colonists was akin to those between the French monarchy and citizens, and the treatment of people by authorities was similar, as fairness [...]
First, each country sought to achieve its objectives and receive more benefits in the formed situation, which, as indicated by the realist perspective, are always the motives of different states.