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The Spanish explorers were the first from the Europe who settled on the shore of the American continent. The places of their destination were the Mississippi River, the Appalachian Mountains, the Great Plains and the [...]

He wrote it in Rome, and the main topic of the source concerns the moment when Helena discovered the cross used for the crucifixion of Christ.

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 [...]

As a result, crime and violent behaviour are associated with the victims of the Stolen Generations and the generations stemming from them.

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 [...]

The scholar describes desire as the root of misery and the failure to achieve fulfillment in life. In addition to deepening Khaldun's attitude to ambitiousness, the metaphor obscures the significance of desire in spirituality.

Mammals evolved from cynodonts toward the close of the Triassic period and diversified extensively throughout the Jurassic. As a result of the disappearance of certain classes of large animals, the Cenozoic period is often recognized [...]

It has affected my family and me so that the descendants of the native Cherokee Indians are forced to live and work on the reservation.

Third, the Massachusetts Bay colony was also united by common religious and ideological views, while the Chesapeake Bay colony was not.

The thesis in Chu's article suggests that in regard to Arctic exploration and industrialization there was a difference between the rhetoric of aggressive conquest propagated by the Soviet government for social purposes and the realities [...]

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 [...]

He transformed from enlightening despot to a regular despot turning into the Latin version of Napoleon. At the end of his life, he was not allowed to cross Venezuela's border.

The elites of Vila Rica, pressed by the royal tax demand, decided to follow the idea of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution.

The role of the inspectors was to ensure that citizens paid the tributes. Even worse, the role of married Athenian women was to perform household chores and bear children.

The league members were called "polis," and the smaller ones often sided with the Athenian's Proposals, and Athens ended up at the top of the command chain.

The representatives of the ancient world believed in the afterlife and the importance of the human soul to be pure and dignified.

The division of Europe into Western and Eastern was the major WWII aftermath, and this work aims at comparing the situation in the regions between 1963 and 1989.

A series of documents in the 17th and 18th century continuously included fundamental rights to freedom of speech, the ban on slavery, voting rights, equal opportunities, and other rights.

In its general sense, historical archaeology implies the review of artifacts and written records through the prism of a broader social and political context.

August 15, 1769: the day Napoleon Bonaparte was born - the future emperor of France, the great commander, and a politician.

According to Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of the United Nations, genocide is a process of killing members of a religious, racial, ethnic, and national [...]

Churchill encouraged the US and the UK to unite and ensure that they ended the actions that the Soviet Union was exercising.

The mandate system was the process in which the newly established League of Nations approved European rule over all colonies and countries created after the defeat in World War 1.

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 [...]

The practice dates back to the beginning of times and allows leaders to gain the benefit of including the perspectives and points of view they may not be aware of at the time of making [...]

5 million years ago and was marked by the development and use of chipped stone tools Mesolithic- This is a cultural period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras that began around 10,000 years ago and [...]

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 [...]

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.

The five stages in the economic determinism of history can be summarized as follows; Primitive hunting and gathering societies had no extra wealth and therefore no private property, social classes, class struggles, or even the [...]

From the perspective of the methodology, the study by Wang was carried out over the course of six months, and it involved fieldwork in the form of exploring the organizational communication of a Chinese international [...]

Settler colonialism results in the repudiation of the history and culture of the colonized location. The elimination of mentioned challenges is carried out through the elimination of the indigenous community and the assertion of the [...]

One of the causes of the Great Depression was the international economic woes of the United States of America. One of the actions taken by the Hoover administration to combat the depression was urging the [...]

Overall, internal British and Labor Party politics, and not a foreign policy, led to new situation in the Gulf region.

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.

The uprising was suppressed due to the numerical advantage of government troops and the rebels' lack of supplies. By the end of the 1870s, the indigenous population of the Canadian plains was forced to lead [...]

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 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 [...]

To conclude, the Ghost Dance was a movement that accumulated the various aspects of American Indians living in the 19th century and delivered their cry for justice and salvation.

Tired of the current situation and raring for change, the French people had to find a reason to revolt. She was convicted and executed of the same.

During this time, there was a reduction in adult mortality and this resulted in increased savings, increased acreage of agricultural land, increased capital stock, reduced rates of capital returns, and improved agricultural production.

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] [...]

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.

Therefore, the subsequent revolutionary event in California's history following the Gold Rush was "the war".irrespective of the challenges faced by some Asians and Europeans in the battle, a majority of Americans were unwilling to join [...]

Conversely, the aftermath of WW1 saw drastic changes in Europe, and as such, it led to the socio-cultural revolution in the African continent pioneered by the missionaries and local leaders.

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 most significant one is the fusion of the Germanic mercenaries and fighters into the Roman troops. Leadership challenges emerged, leading to instability and the eventual fall of the empire.

This discussion gives a detailed analysis of the available evidence, the similarities, and trends that support the nature of the ongoing ideological and political upheaval between the two countries.

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 [...]

This paper covers an evaluation on the international politics of the MENA region alongside discussions on the history behind its political platform.

The indigenous inhabitants of the land of Edmonton city in the province of Alberta have sought the recognition of their identities for decades.

For the purposes of this critique, the former is considered in lines, color, and shape alongside the latter's contrast, balance, and variety.

The slave trade between the Gulf and Africa resulted in varying socio-cultural and political exchanges evidenced between Oman and Zanzibar during the Indian Ocean slave trade period.

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.

This statement was a part of the Atlantic Charter and the reason for African colonies to request their independence from European countries.

Historically, civil war and revolutions are intertwined with one following the other. However, there are substantial differences.

The revolutions differ in their origins as one was a social movement, the other was driven by religious groups, and the other was actually instigated by the government itself.

Bolsheviks constituted the largest radical group in revolutionary Russia that played the most important role in the initiation and the course of the revolution.

Get this: In the formation of the heavens and the world; in the night and day variation; in the voyage of ships around the globe for the sake of humanity; in the rain that Allah [...]

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 convergence of people from different parts of the world at the Atlantic basin, which acted as a global cultural and intellectual exchange centre, led to a wealth of knowledge1. The main causative factor for [...]

Thus, the purpose of the article was to examine the historical origins of witch trials on the American land, particularly focusing on the first and last documented cases, all of which happened in the Virginia [...]

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.

The films created images of the U.S.enemy using cinematic illustrations of American masculinity and femininity. USSR used sex to describe the American enemy to the audiences and validate the superiority of the Soviet lifestyle.

During the Cold War, both the socialist motives of the USSR and the imperialist nature of the United States affected African nations and their changing political states.

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.

Although it is not abundant in sculpture, still the art of beading is probably the main feature South Africa is known for around the world.

The crumble of the Roman Empire destabilized the west and this was an opportunity for the East to take over leadership in the globe.

The institute of indentured servitude existed in the 17th and 18th centuries, forming the core of the labor force in the British Colonies.

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 [...]

Animals were brought to people's settlements, they were chosen according to their abilities to provide products, to work, or to serve as a source of food.

I know it is hard for you to talk about it, but it is for my class assignment, and I would also like to learn more about what you experienced.

The Atlantic slave trade was considered among the main pillars of the economy in the western region between the 16th and 19th centuries.

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 [...]

Going by the title of the book, The Wages of Relief: Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39, Strikwerda's main objective is to add knowledge to the past literature on the Canadian economic history [...]

One of the fiercest battles the Spanish fought before colonizing the wider areas of the Americas was that which involved the Aztecs and in which they won despite the size of their army.

This exhibition displays the development of the city and it also reveals major milestones in the development of Australia. That was the period of massive immigration and the development of the European ways of life.

In the past decades, obesity was more prevalence among adults but this has changed with the increased rates of obesity among the adolescents and children. This paper has focused on the past history of obesity [...]

Due to the high international criticism, a very tiny portion of the East Wing is dedicated to explain the context, yet visitors easily overlook the section after the dense display of tragedies after a-bomb in [...]

There is a great deal of profit that can be made through the creation of cartels making it very hard to resist the temptation to participate in the said illegal activity.

Additionally, evolutionary theory and anthropology have been applied to past and modern African societies to obtain insights into the social structures of the past.

However, from the beginning of the establishment of the Atlantic Trade and throughout its existence, the Africans were the voluntary sellers of their people.

The article is a historical factual investigation of the performance of merchants as the influential economic entities in the Mongol Empire.

The article's relevance is in its descriptions of the various rebellions in the empire and the methods used to suppress and prevent them.

Although the fighting efficiency of the Nazi troops decreased due to a decrease in the number of available equipment and the transfer of auxiliary units to the front, it was still a formidable force.

European states fought for the African countries to supplement the territorial expansion in Europe. Accordingly, the European scramble for African territories was the best strategy to support sustainable economic and political development in Europe.

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

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.

A talented strategist and warrior, Cortes managed to demonstrate outstanding military shrewdness and excellence in tactics that can explain the success of the Spanish colonization of Mexico.

In Mexico, the establishment of the Council of the Indies was a symbol of the fall of the Aztec Empire and the victory of Spain over the indigenous people.

The group basis of the country's politics best explains the divisions and how they derail the peace process or exacerbate the conflict.

However, the work becomes more complicated when the time distance of the events and processes is shorter, and the stories are unfinished.

Its role in learning the idea of the Polish nation and the history of the country cannot be ignored because it contains several stories, both subjective and objective. Their contributions to Przekroj varied because of [...]

The China threat theory was formed at the beginning of the 2000s due to the growing influence of this country. That is the essence of the China threat theory, which implies an inevitable confrontation between [...]

Since the infamous Palestine conflict is rooted deeply in political, cultural, social, and religious misconceptions between the Jewish and the Muslim residents of the area, the advocacy of the current Israeli strategy concerning the emphasis [...]

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 [...]

The promise of money gave inventors the incentive to create the mechanisms that started the transition to a new manufacturing process.

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.

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 [...]

Currently, in the 21st century, the vast majority of the world population no longer needs to think of how to produce enough rice to survive the winter.

The paper will include three parts: an overview of the historical background of the research subject, particular case studies of the internal conflicts within the Ottoman Empire, and an analysis of the state's response to [...]

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.

As a result, this example demonstrates how technological advances can strengthen the reliance on medical experts. While some of them support the activity of medical experts, others are said to act as substitutes.

The use of technological achievements in the health care industry in the early 20th century was associated with essential changes. Finally, the advertisement of a Pulmotor demonstrates that the technological achievements in medicine were closely [...]

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 Russo-Japanese War was a turning point in the world's history and a fundamental factor for the rest of the XX century.

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 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.

Therefore, the Ancient Roman army combined the peaceful mentality of protecting the land from invaders and the notion of the conquest of other states.

Wherein, the time of the stock market emergence was the time of the ongoing "carnival," where the mystical power of money transferred to miraculous products and medicines and compelling advertisements.

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 [...]

The Israel information in Egypt also contributed to Israel not preparing for war, he assured Israel of the unlikelihood of any war.

Qian contributed to the exchange between China and the rest of the world in the field of science through development and improvement of the aviation industry.

The main tendencies in the world which caused the beginning of the process of globalization in the 1840s were the international migration of capital and people, the development of new technologies and the new industrialism, [...]

Evaluating the situation, it appears that the major motivation behind the actions of the major players in this conflict was the distribution of authority in the world which started after the capitulation of Germany.

Syncretism is the act of bringing together several different and contradicting beliefs; to form different beliefs because of incorporating and or omitting some of the individual practices. Syncretism can on the contrary lead to the [...]

Despite the Francs' efforts to justify their violent actions in Jerusalem and the surrounding territories by an exalted desire to free the land of Christ from ungodly people and traitors, the First Crusade was a [...]

However, the period of the Cold War in the international relations did not exclude the occurrence of the hot spots on the planet.

Captain Cook was a surveyor in the royal navy and in 1778, he made his first trip to the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiians were very hospitable to the captain and his crew.