The Hutus and Tutsis have had a long history of being separate and unequal. It started with Rwanda being given to the Belgian Kingdom by the League of Nations. From the very beginning, the Belgians favored the Tutsi and used a sort of class system to identify between the Hutu and Tutsi. They measured nose […]
On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported between 235 and 270 Armenian community leader and scholars from Constantinople, the majority of whom were eventually killed. The genocide was carried out throughout World War I in two phases the killing of the able-bodied men through massacre and forced labor, and then the […]
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The Greek Genocide Genocide or ethnic cleansing means to wipe out or try to wipe out a whole race or religion. Genocide has only been a word since 1948. Genocide means, Geno meaning race, tribe, or religion and Cide being the Latin for killing. Everyone should know about the Holocaust caused by Adolf Hitler. But […]
In this picture the people of Darfur are asking for help from international forces as they need safety and protection.We are able to see the distress and worry on their faces which appeals to our emotions. Luckily The U.S. and UN came to the rescue and built camps in Thailand for those who needed a […]
The crusades were a time of glory, faith, brotherhood, and hope. But with the good comes the bad. Those were also times of bloodshed, cruelty, greed and dominance. Like any story there are different people with different interpretations of that same story. This was an interesting time because the crusades did not start just because […]
The Crusades were multiple religious holy wars between the Christians and Muslims. To understand more of the Crusades you need to understand the religious background of it first. There were three major religions during the time of The Crusades which were Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Judaism is the oldest of the three religions, origins dating […]
The First Crusade was during a transitional time in Western Europe. It was during a period where religion was an important construct for many people, but it was also during a time where people were starting to seek knowledge with the establishment of the first universities. In contrast, the Fourth and Fifth crusades were during […]
The Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during the voyage from Southampton to New York City. This boat carried a total of two thousand two hundred twenty-nine people. The number of survivors varied form seven hundred one to around […]
Egypt is considered the origin of the numerous world religions. It contains some of the most established profound ancient rarities, writings, and workmanship that might be replicated to in vogue religions. Indications of early Egyptian confidence start to the Predynastic sum, beginning with evidence of polytheistic love. Numerous understudies have examined the occasion of Ancient […]
Tools/weapons used In the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods the weapons used were mainly maces (a heavy club typically having a metal head or spikes), daggers, or spears. Other weapons like the bow and arrow, and more. Most of the Egyptian army were infantrymen or Foot-soldiers, there were horse-drawn chariots, but no cavalry. Armies and […]
What is controversy? Without looking at a dictionary, I, by heart, can honestly define it as having many sides or taking a stance on something with more than one stance without being sympathetic to the other side or not taking the other sides arguments into account. Political correctness for instance is controversial, although not the […]
With the United States having a higher prison incarceration rate than the countries we considered autocratic such as Iran, China and Germany one would hope that the War on Drugs implemented in the 1970s would soon come to an end, again one would hope. From the unjust use of prisoners set to help the community […]
According to the articles of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide refers to violent crimes committed with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. This can be done through not just the killing of the members of […]
Resistance’s Role in the Rwandan Genocide First sentence? “Exactly fifty years after the discovery of the Nazi death camps, the world witnessed genocide in Rwanda” (Hintjens 241). The Hutu majority carried out a systematic campaign; its goal was the complete extermination of the Tutsis. While the genocide ended before the last Tutsi survivors could be […]
Following Japanese defeat in World War Two, the United States, China and the United Kingdom adopted a joint resolution stating that Korea – formerly part of the Japanese empire- would become an independent country. However the United States only occupied the southernmost portion of the peninsula, while the northern part of the country had previously […]
From the start of the 1300s to the early 1500s, central Mexico was dominated by a Mesoamerican culture called the Aztecs. Previously inhibited by the Toltecs, the land left behind was marshy. While exploring the land, the Aztecs saw an eagle perched on a cactus. This was taken as a sign to start their culture […]
Believing to have begun as a northern tribe of hunters and gatherers whose name came from their homeland, this ethnic tribe was known as the Aztecs. During this time, the Aztecs were also known as Tenochca: a very unique name originating from their capital city, Tenochtitlan (ENCYCLOPDIA BRITANNICA). The Aztecs emerged as the dominant force […]
When the clay tablets of the epic of Gilgamesh were first discovered and translated in 1872, scholars quickly noticed striking similarities between its narratives and those of the bible (Coogan 68). Specifically, the flood stories of these two pieces show the most clear resemblance to one another. In Gilgamesh, the main protagonist, Gilgamesh, seeks to […]
Although acts such as the quartering acts, stamp act, and so on, led to the rise of the Boston Tea Party, the Tea Act was the last straw for the colonist. The Tea Act of 1773, allowed the British Indian Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies, underminding colonia tea merchants. Inspite of […]
On the night of December 16, 1773, about 60 Boston colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and boarded three East India Company ships. They were on a mission to dump the 342 crates of tea onboard into the Boston Harbor as retaliation for taxation without representation. Roughly 92,000 pounds (46 tons) of tea was now […]
During the Revolutionary War, colonists were getting furiously tired of the tax acts. In protest of the latest Tea Act of 1773 where the British East India Company was granted a monopoly on selling tea in the American colonies, American patriots decided to stage a protest on December 16, 1773 dressed as Mohawk Indians per […]
The Lewis and Clark expedition to the west brought about many things. In Undaunted Courage, Ambrose gives us an unbiased account of Meriwether Lewis, he presents Lewis as both a hero and a flawed man. I will discuss how he described him in these ways. I will compare and contrast the social conventions of Lewis’s […]
In 1803, chairman Thomas Jefferson bought this area of Louisiana from the French authorities for $ 15 million. This Louisiana acquisition extended from this River stream in the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New York City. In Jefferson, westward expansion was the explanation to this country’s well-being: He thought the democracy depended on the […]
Background: In the town of Shrewsbury, England, on February 12, 1809, Charles Darwin was born. His parents were Susannah Wedgwood and Dr. R.W. Darwin. His mother died when he was a child, at eight years old. Darwin had five older brothers, and one younger, making him the second youngest of six children. Darwin’s favorite hobby […]
The Spanish-American war, lasting from April 21, 1898 to August 13, 1898, had many effects on our world today. Fought in Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Philippines, and Guam, between the United States and Spain, this war had many impacts on the two countries who participated, and the territories in which they took place. Decades before […]
During the year of 1898, on April 25th, the United States declared war on Spain after the Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor sunk, this took place on February 15, 1898. By the end of the 19th century America began to look further ahead and became interested in establishing an overseas empire. A few reason for […]
George Glenn King’s book, Letters of a Volunteer, captured my attention due to the connection and interest with my Puerto Rican history. I recognize and have visited many of the towns King describes in his book. My lineage consists of three major cultures. I am Taino Indian, Iberian, and African, the three cultures that make […]
The Boston Massacre had a big impact on American history, because of how it started, with many fights, too many taxes, too many laws and too many expenses, what happened during the massacre,with the killing and injuring of colonists and British soldiers, and because of what happened afterwards, with the British troops leaving Boston, and […]
On March 5, 1770, colonists in the town of Boston decided that they wanted no more of the British soldiers on their street corners and doorsteps, and they took action (John Adams, Architect of American Government). What started that day as the seemingly harmless throwing of snowballs and calling of names resulted in anger building […]
The Boston Massacre, also known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was a big event in American History. It was a street riot that occured on King Street between a patriot mob and British soldiers. This disaster occured on March 5, 1770. Although it was a somewhat fast event, the tension building […]
