Imagine walking through a cave along the silk road, a series of transportation routes, maybe you’re transporting silk or pigment to a faraway city. As you walk along your long journey you are all of a sudden surrounded by beautiful paintings such as the Western Paradise of Amitabha Buddha, and by generous people who offer […]
The modern society is organized into government that mainly constitutes of the executive, legislature, and the judiciary. The three arms of the government are important in helping to ensure that people are governed fairly and according to their will. Governments are formed when the citizens of a nation give up some of the rights of […]
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The Enlightenment has influenced the way America is shaped and ran in many different ways. Ideas, such as life, liberty and property have been implemented into the core values, standards and beliefs of the country. Philosophers like Montesquieu and Locke left a lasting impact on society through their beliefs on how the country should be […]
Dr. Crawford argues that crusades were always perceived as disgraceful violent episodes through which Western forces killed the peace-loving Muslims unprovoked. Dr. Crawford asserts that this view is common in the western world today as evident in presidential speeches and role-playing games. However, Dr. Crawford believes that everyone’s knowledge of crusade is, in fact, untrue. […]
The Crusades were multiple series of military missions, which were planned and organized by the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope. The time period for most of the Crusades was through 11 to 13 A.D. Muslims had taken over Christian lands and the whole mission of the Pope to send out the Crusades were to […]
The Beginning of the Crusades Turks from Central Asia began to challenge the Byzantine Empire in the 11th century. The sultans, their leaders, had the goal of acquiring more territory and being seen as a legitimate force in the Middle East. The Turks were seasoned mercenaries, highly skilled in battle and fiercely dedicated to Allah. […]
The main causes of Crusades could be looked at two perspectives. First, the development of Western Europe can be regarded as an external cause, including its church advocacy, the feudal system and the ignorant people. Second, the Byzantine decline could be considered as an internal cause, including its compromise and the divisions. As noted by […]
Rome, an entire empire with a lot of power ceased to exist. It was one of the mightiest empires in its time, undefeated through ferocious battles and wars, but it didn’t last forever. This corrupted civilization came to an end. There was a lot of reasons why the Roman Empire fell, three of these reasons […]
The Romans were one of the greatest empires that there ever was. They had power, wealth, and at one point ruled majority of the known world. They built one of the strongest and vast empire that the world has ever seen. They rose from nothing and grew into one of the strongest empires known to […]
Have you ever thought of how many churches are in the city you live? There are probably many different churches with different denominations that could be found where you live. Most of these churches would be classified as either Protestant or Catholic. With all these different types of churches, have you ever thought of where […]
There is no one cause to the fall of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire did not simply fall over night, rather the fall occurred as a consequence of a mixture of attacks from outside forces and other internal circumstances such as, their difficulties governing a massive empire, the increasing gap between the rich and […]
More than enough people are still terrified that the world is in danger when it comes to dealing with terrorists and their threats. Today people make it seem like we’re in harm’s way and that authorities aren’t doing anything to protect us. When it comes to 9/11 the people that were younger back then are […]
The Cycle Of 9/11 9/11 had a major effect on our society. It plunged our economy into a huge deficit and engaged the U.S.A in a war in Afghanistan. Many people lost their lives on this tragic day. This profounded day was a day to remember, a day that everyone will always keep in […]
Tragedies happen all around us sometimes they can not be avoided. For instance 9/11 was not something that could have controlled, likewise grendel was not something you could control either. Both 9/11 and Grendel brought great sorrow to people and took many lives. They also happen to be killing for hatred, Grendel hated how happy […]
For Americans, the date 9/11 holds much historical significance. On the eleventh day of September in 2001, there were a series of four attacks across the nation by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. These attacks were made against the United States as a whole, and serve as a political statement that has forever changed the […]
You wake up one morning thinking that today is going to be normal day. You follow your daily routine and turn on the TV news channel. Your surprised by the chaos on the news and from your apartment you can hear people screaming and shouting. Out of nowhere you hear a loud boom. This is […]
The Great Migration Although the passage of the thirteenth amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States, took place in 1865 by the House of Representatives, the pain and suffering of African-Americans was far from over. Immediately after the House pushed the thirteenth amendment into effect, the roots of Jim Crow laws began to […]
Immigration in the United States has been around since the country’s creation. From the Puritans who left England to escape religious persecution, the Irish who left Ireland to escape the great famine, and now the people of Mexico who are leaving to escape a corrupt government and merciless drug cartels. When a country is having […]
The Great Migration occurred in the early 1900s, and it involved the migration of over 6 million African Americans from Southern cities to the North of the country specifically, Newark. The Great Migration resulted into what can be described as a shift in massive demographic shifts across the United States. African Americans migrated to Newark […]
The end of the Civil War marked the end of two centuries of slavery, but it did not give complete relief and equality to the freed African Americans. After the war, many newly established groups from the South, including the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), worked to ensure that whites stayed superior. The groups, which was […]
Despite operating under the same name, the first and second rises of the Klan were extremely different in their tactics, impact, and expanse. While much of their ideology remained consistent, rooting in racism, white supremacy, and violence against the non-white and non-Protestant population, though their bigotry extended to additional groups in an attempt to recruit […]
The United States was changing and so were the people in it. As the war ended and the confederate military was done some people were still not happy. The veterans themselves formed a secret society, this was born the Ku Klux Klan. The secret society quickly grew to a unofficial force that was well bent […]
Many people question the existence of the Ku Klux Klan these days. The Ku Klux Klan became an organization of institutional race hatred after the Civil War in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee (Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2014). It would seem like it could be something from the past and the older generations but according to Selepak […]
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat slow anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow (Rupert Murdoch). The Roaring Twenties is an example of this, it was the year of changes within the social and political views of many Americans, where the youth took charge and changed America to become […]
The decade that left behind the ideologies of the old Victorian way of life and brought on a new era of a more a modernized America is the 1920’s, bringing an escalation of the economy, transforming mass consumerism, and a new political and social way of life for American people. The American people were ready […]
Roaring 20’s Positives The Roaring 20’s was the an age of economic prosperity and cultural explosion after WW1 and brought a wide array of great changes and a few bad changes. The roaring 20’s birthed revolutionary new technologies that changed the way American society lived forever. The Roaring 20’s also was a time of social […]
The Crusades were a lengthy and tiring battle fought between the Muslims and Christians. These crusades took place during the 11th to the 13th centuries. The crusades were sanctioned by the Papacy, the head of the Papacy known as the Pope. Several people have fought and several have fallen, the Christians only won due to […]
Between the Mongol Conquests and the Crusades, Europe was affected drastically with each expedition. The Mongol Conquests, while permanently altering life and health in most of Asia, left an almost dark shadow over the continent. The Crusades brought a little glimmer of hope to the people of Jerusalem and in the long term, changed the […]
The Battle of Gettysburg was a three-day battle between the Union and the Confederate States of America that took place on July 1-3, 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, decided that the time was right to invade the north and capture the Union’s capital. So, Davis commanded General Robert E. […]
The Gettysburg Address was given on November 19, 1863 to the Union soldiers four months after they defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Gettysburg. This speech brought a new outlook on what was currently happening in the war and what was yet to come. Lincoln uses language and structure in The Gettysburg Address to […]
