World History Essay Examples and Topics. Page 5

The persistence of Indigenous people has provoked considerable interest among scientists in the impact of buffalo hunting on the development of the Australian tribes.

According to the plot, one American journalist named George Beckworth is to cover the topic of the military involvement of the USA in this war.

Despite the numerous attempts of the world organizations to influence the position of the US, nothing changed until Obama decided to mitigate the sanctions a few years ago.

The Americans' demands of immigration restriction and limitation of rights for the Chinese led to the Chinese Exclusion Act, signed in 1882.

Issues associated with the increase in the number of people in the country, unemployment, and decreasing well-being of the communities contribute to the emerging revolts.

The article was written in 1917 when Lenin gave his explanation of why the World War One broke out stating the 'predatory' essence of the powerful states to take over each other economically and politically.

The Late Victorian Era is a very special period in the history of Britain on a boundary of the beginning of the XX century.

The changes in social order seen in Western Europe will be discussed in terms of the expectations of the nobles and peasants.

Thus, it should be understood that Hinduism was part of the earliest India and has been with it even though the era of reformation and the shaping of the Indian cultures and traditions.

According to what Black says, Germany had a plethora of advantages compared to the Allies' army at the beginning of the war the chances to capture the entire world were quite high, which means that [...]

Civilization is an important aspect that has led to the domination of the West in the years that have passed. Societies continue to advance differently throughout the globe and the West is threatened by the [...]

Apart from political control and helping Irish immigrant society, Tammany hall was a governance hall recognized especially when it took place in the elections that were held in the year 1854, which made Fernando Wood [...]

The United States also decided to involve itself in the Vietnam War; a decision that made the European countries question the intention of the United States and for a period some level of detente was [...]

As for the historical context, after the War the USA had rather a beneficial position which helped the country to revive quickly and set the economical and political domination: the Marshall Plan, which seemed to [...]

This paper deals with the discussion of the work of historians, our own perception of history and its usage in modern life, as history is one of the main sources for creation of the movies [...]

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

He used a lot of his personal knowledge of the gulf to give a detailed account of the history of central and Eastern Arabia.

At around 200 BC, there was the construction of the Great Wall of China, and improvement of the trade relations which involved Asia and the Roman Empire, and the use of architecture in the design [...]

Colonialism is the political ideology that legalizes the invasion, occupation, and exploitation of a given land by stronger states which use their military powers thus displacing the powers of the original inhabitants of the land.

Michael Cook's "A Brief History of the Human Race" portrays the general outline of global human history over the past 10,000 years.

In ancient times, leadership in some regions of the world was in the form of Empires and kingdoms that were ruled by Kings and queens.

It is clear to everyone that the world had a long and complex way of transformation before it became similar to the world we live in now.

As a result of the construction of these structures, the problems that had dogged the urban cities in Europe prior to 1850 were somewhat contained.

This paper will focus on the economic impact of the Black Death and the changes that occurred to European society after the catastrophe. The most noticeable effect of the Black Death was the abrupt decline [...]

Thus, the present paper will be devoted to the comparative analysis of various indigenous groups that lived in South Africa during precolonial era and dealt with one another and the second focus of the present [...]

The Spanish and Vikings were similar in the sense that they were both settlers who managed to explore the American region.

Starting with the Herzegovinian peasant revolution in July of 1875, the Austro-Hungarian diplomacy was the one that was particularly held responsible for the crisis while the European diplomacy was the one that was generally held [...]

Locker about the way he happened to take part in the Vietnam War, he said that he was drafted but, anyway, at that time he thought that it was his destiny as he wanted to [...]

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, [...]

Different parts of the world were also opened up to new trade that led to exchange of crops, animals and diseases as people settled in new lands.

Churchill accused the Soviet Union of the deployment of global expansion and the attack on the territory of "the free world".

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.

The primary causal of this period includes scientific revolutions, declining influence of the church, exploration and imperialism, and the thirty years of war Scientific revolutions begun at the end of middle age and came about [...]

Another factor that led to the partitioning of the countries was the strong ideological divide that existed between Muslims and Hindus in India.

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.

Instead, the attack ended up uniting the Americans against Japan and the other Axis nations, resulting in the entry of the United States in World War 2.

Historians relate the end of the great depression to the start of the second-word war. The government then came up with packages that sought to lessen the effects of the depression.

During the 1st century, the double currency was stable and towards the end of 2nd century, the denars equivalent to gold started to rise.

For instance, Tanzania is famous for rope and twine making from sisal and this came out clearly in the videos. It goes on to reflect on the events of post-colonialism and the uncertainties that plunged [...]

The Renaissance is considered as the age of the bourgeois, humanist and cultivated - or at any rate paying homage to the ideal of humanism.

This essay examines the influence of the Diaspora in the global political, social and economic spheres and the concept of Pan-Africanism and its future prognosis.

Both the revolutions were for a cause, the American Revolution took place because the Americans wanted to free themselves from the enslavement of the British and similarly the French revolution took place because the rich [...]

He assumed all the powers of the government offices and sent the strikers back home to their families and their jobs.

In the discussion, I will discuss the Pueblo revolt of 1680 and the contributions of the Hopi people towards the success of the revolution.

The end of the American Civil War brought considerable reconstruction to the South through emancipation development and slavery destruction; it is necessary to stress that the beginning of the emancipation era appeared to be the [...]

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 [...]

Saifa Empire was considered as the longest dynasty that ruled for 771 years in the Kingdom of Kanem."The major factor that influenced the history of the state of Kanem was the early penetration of Islam"..

To begin with, it is necessary to mention, that the Ideas of Lenin Stalin, and Mao have the same origin Marxism and the essence of communism stated in the communist manifesto by Marx.

In 1905, when the Imperial forces of Russia were under the affliction of mortifying and degrading vanquishes, the famous revolution of that year broke out.

Reviewing and analyzing Western History after the 1700s, it is necessary to discuss the issues of imperialism and national unification which led to dramatic changes in the map of the world in the nineteenth and [...]

Tsar Nicholas moved into Moldavia and Wallachia and secret accords with the Austrian and British governments for the disposition of the Ottoman empire were formulated in 1844 in London.

He undertakes to trace the root cause of the Prime Minister's murder to underlying issues that have characterized the history of the Jews over the period of time since the murder of Rabbi Abraham Kohn [...]

Only one party existed, and the leader of it was the head of the state. Propaganda was spread to inspire the people to work hard for the prosperity of the new state.

The status of the 'ordinary' worker was elevated and May Day became the 'National Day of Labor', a symbol of the national community where all workers, as well as their employers, would participate in a [...]

Global examples of what Neo-Malthusians call 'Eco-violence' are South Africa, where scarcity of natural resources caused the sudden occurrence of civil violence in the 1990s, and Chiapas {Mexico} where rebellion took place because natural resources [...]

The rise of the "Asian tiger economies" as the economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, is oftenly said to have caught the developed world by a surprise.

Since the soft obsidian rock that was used in the making of the weapons was found in the Southern region and as a result, the people in the South were in a better position to [...]

History is a part and parcel of society and has to be appreciated if the present and the future are something we look forward to and plan to make better.

The purpose of this research is to analyze and discuss the true meaning of the word and trace it back in history to see when globalization actually started.

The foreign and the domestic policy by the US was featured by the increased fear of communism, and all the efforts were aimed to struggle with the leftist views, regardless of the fact, that the [...]

The field of traveling contributed a lot to the development of the major sciences of humanity. The analysis of the achievements and trips peculiarities of two well-known travelers Macro Polo and Cabeza de Vaca underlines [...]

Global movements like the entry of the heritage monuments in the tourism sector, and along with that interest of private companies have raised many complex issues on the ownership rights of the heritage sites, which [...]

In the list of the world famous museums, the largest art and history museum in Georgia and one of the largest museums in the Southeast, is the Columbus Museum.

The samurai were Japan warriors serving at the service of the emperor while the Knights were from Europe at the service of the king.

Before the term began, I had the feeling that in the French Revolution, the aristocracy was overthrown and the common man was in power.

In the case of the study of the fall of Saigon, it is necessary to mention, that the research of the historical background would add to the significance of the study, as the objective of [...]

It contributed to the decline of the empires of the European powers while giving a tremendous boost to the influence of the united state of America; it led to the overthrow of Russian tsarism and [...]

He was the eldest of four children and was schooled at the Birkenhead Institute and Shrewsbury Technical School, he worked at Wyle Cop School while preparing for the exam for the University of London.

This paper will examine the effects of industrialization on different segments of European society and the types of inventions that made the industrial revolution possible.

The Marxists claimed that only material production made a human out of a monkey and connected all the stages of the historical development with the levels of the development of economy.

The paper through the analysis of both resources present an idea that the history sometimes can lie in the memory of the persons that participated in it and fade with time and at times can [...]

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 [...]

The connection with the sea resulted in the initiative taken by the people to settle in faraway colonies on the American mainland.

The thirty years war was a war of change between the Protestants and the Catholics. This treaty was instituted to put a stop to the religious war between the Lutheran of Germany and the Catholics.

The nation as a whole must have been relieved after the breakdown of the Soviet Union and the unification of East and West Germany.

This war led to the introduction of the parliamentary democracy system of governance in England and the abolition of absolute power by the monarch.

The creation of empires in history was characterized by the use of military power by the Assyrians, Persians, and Athenians. Religion was predominant in the armies of the states and was the foundation of their [...]

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 focal point of the paper is to evaluate and analyze the causes of the societal effects of corporate restructuring that took place in Japan in the 1990s.

The importance for the great geographical discoveries were made in the field of geographical knowledge and the development of navigation among the peoples of the East.

To characterize history from the work of each author with one word based on the aspect that is considered the most through their works, history in Scott's work as the title implies will go as [...]

The approval of the religious sects was granted when the ceremony anointing him as Emperor was officiated by the head of the Church.

According to Edouard Navillle, "The Store-City of Pithom and the Route of the Exodus" the geographical position of Egypt had to be taken advantage of and construction of Suez Channel was inevitable process.

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.

The invasion of Iraq that took place as per from March 20th 2003 to May 2003 led by United States, Britain, Australia and Poland had the objectives of disarming the Iraq of weapons of mass [...]

The oil reserves meant a lot to the growth of the United States economy. Any control of the oil reserves in the Gulf by the Soviet Union, Britain or Japan could have been a big [...]

Alexei, Marie, and their young son are assigned a room in a multifamily apartment, and Marie is given a job in the wardrobe department of an army song-and-dance troupe.

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.

Several circumstances can affect the development of revolutions, such as the level of impoverishment in a society, the degree of inequality, and the division along with ethnic connections. The difference between the maturation of a [...]

By the late 1400s, a zone of intercultural communication was created as ships crossed all the sea basins of the Eastern Hemisphere - the China Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the Red and [...]

By the end of the 16th century, Britain had taken over the Dutch colonies of New Netherland and New Amsterdam {now jointly New York}, and the Swedish colony of New Sweden {now Delaware}; the European [...]

The threat to Iran from the north long predates the historical expansion of the Russian people southward. From there he was positioned to assume de facto power in the environment of turmoil and weakness of [...]

Blame ranges from the devil initially to puritan ministers encouraging the witch mania to bring support for the Church, and to the ideology of Puritanism itself, a strong belief that everything strange is the work [...]

To analyze women's discrimination and marginalization in the 17th and 18th centuries, and to investigate whether they were severely discriminated in the social-economic development.

Hence, the analysis of Islamic and Western philosophy proceeds from the analysis of dominant cultural patterns of Western and Eastern civilization and can not be reduced to mere hermeneutics of philosophical texts.

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.

Much was needed to instill a sense of German identity and common political ambition, a feeling of belonging together as one nation, into the populations of the central European states, Protestant and Catholic alike, the [...]

In his thesis concerning the clash of civilizations and the new world order after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR in 1991 Professor Huntington states that two pictures exist [...]

For Americans, it was the independence of their colonizer, and for the French, it was the attempt to become free from the monarchy.

The use of "cellule" for the smallest party units, and "rayon" for the next level of regional organization were typical for camps.

The analyzed document is devoted to the operations of the US Army in Afghanistan, the leading causes for the emergence of the need for military intervention, strategy, and description of the opposing forces, their intents, [...]

The purpose of this study is to explore the beliefs and values, as well as the life of Bedouin people in the UAE.

The rise and fall of new empires can be regarded as one of the major factors contributing to the creation of countries and nations.

Fascism became the reaction to the complete devastation associated with the First World War, insufficient control over the situation in the 1920s, and the economic and social insecurity of the 1930s.

The introduction of the printing press, encouraging literacy, is one of the main motors of the rise of the West during the sixteenth century.

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.

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 [...]

This determines the relevance of questions of the theory of revolution for understanding the social processes of today, determines the special significance of these issues in the modern ideological struggle.

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

Additionally, the realization of the worthlessness of human life due to the rise of science and technology led to the development of existentialism as a protest to the pressures of the changes provoked by the [...]

The competition between the USSR and the USA, the dissolution of the former, and major armed conflicts in Korea and Vietnam are among the events that still impact the world.

The article "From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: The New Challenges in Global History" focuses on the topic of global history and how it is viewed and studied in China.

Therefore, there was a lack of balance between bureaucracy and theocracy, which led to the increased contributions of the Church in the conquest, and the colonization of the Philippines represents a bright example of this [...]

At the beginning of the 7th century BC, hereditary kingship was abolished in Attica, a region in Greece where Athens is situated; elected officials started to rule, thus marking the dawn of democracy.

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 article begins by examining a critical issue that has continued to affect the sustainability of various historical landscapes and places.

Patricia Crone built a model of a pre-industrial society in order to outline the basic processes and patterns common to most of these societies, which students can use as a template for a better understanding [...]