Paul Cartledge is a British ancient historian and an academic and he is also known for all his works of ancient Greece and Sparta, especially a novel named THE SPARTANS. Cartledge was educated at St Paul’s School and New College, Oxford, where, with his contemporaries Robin Lane Fox and Terence Irwin, he was a student […]
Genghis Khan’s Empire Compared to Alexander the Great’s There are two influential conquerors in this lifetime, Genghis Khan (1162-1227, r. 1206-27) and Alexander the Great (356 BC-323 BC, r. 336-323 BC) . However, Genghis Khan built his empire from dirt and dominated more land than anyone in history, which shows that Genghis Khan is the […]
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Alexander the Great has been dead for centuries but the debate regarding his ethnicity is alive and well. Was he Macedonian or Greek? or both or neither and why does this even matter? This requires an examination of the historical, geographical and political practices of his time. The question of why his ethnicity matters is […]
Ale Alexander the third of Macedon was born in the small town of Pella, Grease. He was born on July of 356 BC. He was known as Alexander the great. To people, Alexander was one of the biggest well known man in ancient history. He was on a mission to greatness by his father Philp […]
Alexander III, who would later become known as Alexander the Great, was born in 356 BCE in Macedonia into the royal family of Philip II and Olympias. Due to the circumstances of his birth and his lineage, great things were expected from Alexander. Philip’s court prophet, and Olympia’s dreams previewed Alexander’s destiny for greatness as […]
Whenever people, myself included, hear the name “Alexander the Great”, an image of a historical man may come into mind or they may have heard that name before. Well, with the curiosity of knowing what makes this man “great”, I took it upon myself and snuck into a science museum to use the infamous time […]
If I had to describe the physical appearance , I would have to imagine him as having curly and dark blonde hair, a projected forehead, an extended chin, reddish skin that glistened in the sun with eyes that gave an intense gaze, and off course a highly buffed stature. (Matthew, 2014). This historic figure was […]
During the Industrial, the world and future were changed but at what cost. The quote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (Dickens 1)”, represents the revolution for its ups and downs. The Industrial Revolution was a very good step forward in history but also includes many bad aspects. It […]
The Industrial Revolution was a significant time of change. This is where many changes to the manufacturing processes took place that caused a lot of controversy. During the Industrial Revolution liberals were becoming more prevalent as more people were being treated worse as factory workers. A liberal during the Industrial Revolutions time were usually middle […]
History has been recorded for such a long time to the point where choosing one topic was made quite difficult actually. However, I wanted to do something that actually influenced a great deal of humans in a way that would change the course of history and the course of human evolution as a whole in […]
The primary source- Abigail Adams, Letters to John Adams and His Reply (1776). It is the most famous letter addressed to her husband who took an active part in the creation of the Declaration of Independence. The period of 1775-1783 is famous for one of the biggest events in world history, the war in the […]
For more than five centuries Americans have lifted Christopher Columbus to heights of greatness and god-like. We celebrate his life as though he was a man that had done us a great favor. In recent years Christopher Columbus has come under scrutiny, his life and works being questioned more than celebrated. There have been many […]
Christopher Columbus was an very important man through the role he played in our history. Columbus was a smart young man whose accomplishments soon led to the the discovery of the Americas. Columbus isn’t originally from the Americas. His life was full of adventures and exploration. Columbus is one of the most famous explorers in […]
As children, we are taught all about Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World, and how he is the one person responsible for discovering America. Even though we spent so much time on the topic, we were never taught about his destructive tendencies. We were never told that he was responsible for the murder and […]
Everybody knows that Columbus made the life changing trip to the Americas on three ships: the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. These ships that Columbus used have evolved greatly over time. The technology of ships today has allowed traveling by sea to be much easier. Columbus’ ships and modern ships have few similarities, and they […]
Christopher Columbus was a Italian explorer. He was born between August 26 and October 31. He was born in Genoa, Italy and was known for his exploring across the Atlantic. People also believe that he is the first person to find the Americas. Throughout his whole life, he took 4 big voyages and a lot […]
Christopher Columbus background Christopher Columbus was a wool merchant, was born in Genoa, Italy who was born around 1451. When he was a teenager he got a job on a merchant ship. He remained at seeing until 1470 when French privateers attacked his ship as it sailed north along the Portuguese coast. The boat sank […]
They were times of discovery. The new caravels looked like the safest ships you could think of. Together with the newly invented compass and the sextant, they urged sailors to venture into the seas. On the other hand, in 1453, the Turks entered Constantinople (and since then they called it Istanbul), closing the Mediterranean for […]
Many important figures have contributed to our understanding of marine exploration though not as pivotal as Christopher Columbus and his accidental discovery. Columbus is considered to be one of the greatest and well-known mariner of all time for challenging and developing ideas which allowed him to become successful. He is the reason that Europeans had […]
Christopher Columbus was a great philosopher. He wrote a letter to the Civil War Reconstruction which happened following the civil war from 1865 to 1877 (Levine 59). The reconstruction aim was to reform the south for the states that were previously rebellious to rejoin the union and give equal rights to the former slaves. His […]
America’s national memory is loaded up with symbols and images, symbols of profoundly held, yet defectively comprehended, convictions. The job of history in the iconography of the Assembled States is unavoidable, yet the certainties behind the fiction are some way or another lost in a nebulous fog of enthusiasm and saw national personality. Christopher Columbus, […]
Christopher Columbus was a man that many learn in their childhood age here in America. When someone ask me who Christopher Columbus is, I identify him as a man who explored. Throughout his exploration to find a new route to South America but while not knowing he made a wrong turn, ended up finding North […]
I was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. My name is Anne Frank. My father was Otto, a proud German. I lived with my father, my mother Edith and my sister Margot. We were a middle class Jewish Family. My father was a lieutenant in the German army during World War I. He […]
The unanimous Declaration of the fifty united States of the American education system When in the Course of American events it becomes necessary for one demographic to dissolve the hourly bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the government, the separate and equal station to which the Laws […]
Introduction Richard M. Nixon once said, The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. The Cold War was a period of high tensions that lasted from 1947 to 1991. The two sides of the conflict were the Soviet Union and […]
The topic that I chose to write about is the Cold War. This war was between the USA “Free World” and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) “communist Block” lasted from 1947 to 1991. Basically, there were tensions between the two nations because they were both feeling threatened by each other’s advances in nuclear […]
The Vietnam War had a big effect on the Cold War, being a very deadly war with, at times, no end in sight. After China became a communistic country, communism began to spread throughout Indochina. In 1954 Vietnam had gained its independence from France. But Vietnam was split into two parts at the time, Communistic […]
In the early 1990s, the condition of the world was more desirable than ever. The Cold War concluded and the forces of liberal democracy and free market capitalism had prevailed over communism. Intellectuals did not hesitate to bourgeon visions of optimistic forecasts about the future, such as Francis Fukuyama’s daring claim that the world was […]
The Cold war was a war that is forever imprinted into our minds as a time of many struggles.It has many contributing factors that made it as big as it was. Major contributing factors of the war was the Space Race, Vietnam war, and the Korean War. Many plans and Ideas came to play with […]
As we are all connected to history in one-way shape or form it is important to realize how history is moving us in certain directions. The era of the cold war and just after that played a major role in directing events in the USA. This included technology advancements, human rights, and then the USA […]
