History Essays

Solon, Cleisthenes, and Ephialtes all contributed to the dev elopement of Athens democracy. And it was not until the death of the long-serving leader Pericles that the Athens democracy was interrupted by oligarchy revolution and this was at the end of the Peloponnesian war.

The growing wealth of the yeomen, often the purchasers of the lands of failing husbandmen, tied them closer in values to their gentry’ superiors than to their inferior neighbors. And since they drew with them many of the rural craftsmen, few local worthies remained who were willing to give a political lead to the agrarian poor.

The author says that both men were warriors, and both led troops to battle. Both are considered among the top ten military leaders and rules of all time. During their peaks, they controlled more land than most people ever will, and ran their armies with skill and ease. 

The author states that the American Revolution was triggered because Britain which was economically dependent on its colonies, kept taxing America and other colonies heavily. This taxation infuriated them as these taxes were never approved by the parliament of the respective colonies. The colonies stated that they are prepared to pay taxes.

The author states that in a hunter/gatherer environment, the individual has an intimate responsibility to the community or tribe. In most nomadic or pre-historical troops, the groups were small and every individual was important in terms of making a contribution whether that be hunting, childcare, defense, etc.

The author states that in the year 1155 the land of Ireland belonged to the saints and popes which were the successors of Pope Sylvester. The pope under whose territory Ireland came was known as Pope Adrian IV. The course of history took a deep change when in 1155 Pope Adrian IV issued a bill to the counselor of Henry IV.

The author sheds light on Abraham Lincoln (1809) stating that he was one of the greatest figures in American History, who was not only ambitious but persevered through all the troubles and turmoil of the wars but yet, emerged a winner as the President of America.

There is something awe-inspiring about a nation whose people are suffering untold misery and destruction, that yet continues to give badly needed funds so that artists may be protected and continue their work.

The guerrilla campaign was a movement for "home rule" or the self government on domestic matters, who gathered force, thus consider the primary reason in the formation for this group.Home rule, as defined, refers to the state being given greater self government as part of a demand to pursue a greater administrative purview of the central government.

The Holocaust does not begin with the first shots fired in 1939, or a charismatic leader whose speeches entranced the nation; it begins with a boy named Adolph Hitler. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Vienna Austria to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara.

The author states that to effectively protest against both, the protests should be non-violent so that the protests themselves are moral, just, and constitutional. Two examples of non-violent protests include sit-ins and petitions and letters to the government and media. Non-violent resistance is preferable to violent resistance because it is moral.

The resulting social and economic impact--some 3,000 lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage--catapulted terrorism onto an entirely new level of strategic importance. Catastrophic, or mass-casualty terrorism, once a theory, had now become a reality.

The political ideology of the Hamilton was to establish a strong central government to usurp the right of states, having a view of the constitution with a national bank serving to cover the debt of the country by gaining taxes from all states. He supports the Industrialization view of the country. They were actually the “federalist”.  

The adventures and gallantries of these remarkable characters have served as themes for myriad forms of literature that we continue to enjoy hitherto. Arthur is known to be the semi-legendary king of the Britons who fought against the Anglo-Saxon invaders. He was the son of Uther Pendragon, king of Britain, and Ygraine of Cornwall.

Spending on leisure became an important factor in American life. American dreams had grown to include the world. The soldiers who came back had brought many different points of view with them. These were trickling down to the families, the gossips of unemployed women and children who played on the streets.

The "Era of British Colonization" normally pertains to the colonization era beginning from the early 17th century.The concept of 'colonization' was primarily termed in the early to late 16th century to review the programs of nations which include the United Kingdom and France's dominance over Africa, and the North American nations.

In the 200's B.C., the word was used for a library and research area in Alexandria, Egypt. A museum is a place where a collection of objects illustrating science, art, history, or other subjects is kept and displayed. At various museums, visitors can learn how people lived and worked in early times, what makes a work of art a masterpiece.

The samurai had an unwritten code of honor called the bushido. Bushido means “way of the warrior”. This provided them with a code to help show them how to live and conduct themselves at home and in battle.  One of the most important duties of the samurai was their loyalty to their lord.  The samurai would defend their lord until death.

“Its seven acres of wooded gardens and lawns and the 450-acre Royal Park shield it from the city on three sides” (Anderson 2000, p.22)  Indeed, the Palace of Holyroodhouse has enjoyed its fame and glory for centuries and continues to thrive on the royalty.  Rich in history, it has been marked with 500 years as a Royal residence in 2002, the year of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee.

Film subsists to different perspectives in explaining a specific phenomenon in human life and history.  Not only film a product of human culture; it also has a social function, and this is to mirror or reflect the realities that humanity faces every day or at a specific point in time.  As in every work of art, films contain messages that their creator wants to express to his/her viewers.

It is also marked by serious pollution problems, resulting from the Meiji industrial policy. Except for these tendencies, the health of a new emperor was weak and this fact led to the shift in political power from oligarchic clique to the parliament and democratic parties. It is customary to call this shift and the related events the Taisho democracy.

The complex picture of this genocide is impressively painted by Weitz and strongly supported by individual cases. He illuminates in this chapter the facts regarding how a variety of factors combined to facilitate the Khmer Rouge to move from bold discrimination to mass murder in order to reshape the society.

The author explains that there was a great improvement in people's health from the beginning of the 19th century to its end, and this was due to a massive exercise of social and political will, driven by both economic and humanitarian causes. Medical developments in the period were the instruments used to improve the situation.

(Immanuel Kant, "What Is Enlightenment" 1784) The historical period of 18th and early 19th centuries is often referred to as the age of Enlightenment. Key figures of the intellectual movement called Enlightenment, such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Montesquieu, Kant and others advocated rationality as a base for setting up an authoritative system of ethics, knowledge, politics, and culture.

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Globalisation has become a concern for many anthropologists in recent decades. Bringing global culture and forging it with locals has based the assumption that we will not have any cultural diversity in future. Although globalisation is often perceived as the trend that emerged in the 20th century its roots lie deep in the history of mankind.

the development of modern Zionism. Many elements with reference to suspicious motives and agenda are linked with the Dreyfus Affair. The Affair is considered to be an illustration of 'corruption, perversion and gross miscarriage of justice, cover-up, conflicts and hatred'.

The author states that Cleopatra about 17 years old, and her brother, Ptolemy XIII, a child of about 12 years, succeeded jointly to the throne of Egypt with the provision that they should marry. But it was a marriage for convenience only. She became queen at the age of 18. In the third year of their reign, Ptolemy was encouraged by his advisers.

The author states that the Civil War was fought not primarily over slaveholding itself, but rather the rights of the states to determine for themselves their rights, one of which was the right to slavery. The Constitution consciously delineates and separates certain rights, giving some rights to the federal government and others to the states.

Urbanization changed the daily lives of individuals who had to adjust from self-sustaining life on farms to depersonalized lives in bigger cities with a newfound dependence on services that sometimes weren't provided. Because of this sudden and overwhelming growth and the discontent to which it gave rise, urbanization also had an impact on the entire economic and governmental systems of the developing nations.

The author states that men would go out to work during the day while women were left at home to carry on with domestic activities. Professionalism caused the struggle to narrow down the social divide in terms of equality. In this recent stage of business evolution in America, women have started coming out of the limelight.

In the modern world one of the major concerns of the feminist theory has been investigations and researches on sex inequalities and gender role differences. Several of the researches in the area come up with most pertinent findings regarding the role of women in the social functioning over the years. The woks and efforts of the feminist thinkers have been influential in achieving a greater role for women in the modern world.

The period 1815-50 was especially tumultuous with regard to the ideologies that were put forth by Jeremy Bentham, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Edmund Burke, and the like. These ideologies were given names suffixed with ‘ism’ to the principle governing theory; like, Radicalism (Radical-ism), Republicanism, Socialism, Nationalism, Conservatism, and Classical Liberalism.

Although it is oftentimes considered that the immediate era surrounding the Civil War was the ultimate cauldron within which the issue of slavery came to prominence, it was a trying and contentious issue from before the time the United States was founded up until the conclusion of the Civil War.

Drucker, 2003). If we analyzed then we come to know that in new times the source of war on a world scale has always been imperialist competition between China and Japan. At the present that the collective bloc has fall to pieces, conflicts between contending imperialist powers will unavoidably come to the fore and control global relations, as they have so frequently in the past.

The author of this essay explains that history is replete with many battles and wars, but the First World War was the kind of war which sharply polarized the world community. It was the first big war which saw the use of modern day warfare technology as machine guns, battle tanks, air force power and strategies in a big way.

The author states that the first images of the logo were Willy the Hillbilly was printed in 1950 and was sold in the market. The moonshine theme didn’t stick, but the hillbilly did become popular. Mountain Dew was trademarked and labeled, it included a cartoon hillbilly taken from the creators’ original label design.

In May, 1328 King Edward III of England signed the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton, recognizing Scotland as an independent kingdom and Robert the Bruce as its King. If Robert the Bruce is the figure-heard, rightfully so, who is most associated with Scotland winning its independence, any knowledge of history will suggest that there must have been many people, less celebrated, around and beneath the great King, who enabled his actions.

s they are now Would morbidity be as rampant as they were thousands of years ago My answer is a resounding Yes. The advances of science led us to live a much healthier and longer lives. We now have preventive measures against the once very deadly typhoid fever or chicken pox.

In fact, as more balanced research clearly demonstrates, both victors and losers contributed to the ultimate conflict in many ways. The issue is also complicated by a tendency to focus on a particular cause, such as the Anglo-German naval arms race, to the exclusion of equally valid and influential causal factors.

In most cases, myths send a message that has got an important religious or social meaning to people, even though the events might be impossible. Myths can as well be used to explain other things such as the customs or behavior of a certain group of people or even explain nature. Through told stories, myths helped to teach human beings' behaviors.

A History of Prophecy in Israel has good points and bad points. The positive aspect is the interest that can be generated in Israel’s prophets as real-life historical figures. Analysis can help scientifically minded individuals understand biblical issues like prophets. The negative side is the criticisms of religious texts and the assumption that everyone is knowledgeable about Israel’s prophets.

According to the report both wars were violent and claimed many lives. World War I saw some 65 million men and women mobilized to fight the war, and of these some 8.5 million died and over 21 million wounded. During World War II, an estimated 55 million soldiers and civilians were killed. The economic losses were terribly huge.

The essence of this discussion is to make assessments on the 4 Pre Confederation Canadian staples namely; fur, fish, wheat and timber. How these staples changed New France to socially, economically and politically advance.

Looking within the historical context of early Britain, it soon becomes obvious that indeed it was a very violent and tumultuous time period where not much consideration or thought was given to the individual worth of life. Having set the stage, the focus of this paper is a historical accounting of the evolution of community policing and crime prevention.

In the paper “Democracy in America 1835, 1840” the author answers the question: What role does the concept of equality play, as Tocqueville thought, in politics in American life, with regards to social class, race, and gender? Alexis de Tocqueville saw in 19th Century American society the ideal.

Zinn takes a decidedly left leaning approach in his analysis of events, whilst Carnes presents a more functional perspective. Tending to see the uprising and subsequent civil war as the necessary progression from the turbulent political and social times. Such contrasting analysis of the same events by different historians gives multifaceted insight into the national psyche during the civil war.

As the paper declares the said idea depicted the belief of the Americans on the superiority of the United States over all the other North American countries when it came to political and economic aspects. This idea also promoted the belief that the United States was ordained by God to govern the entire North America.

Ever since the failed Easter Rising of 1916, Collins knew what it would take to gain independence from Britain. He was passionate about the cause, but he was also patient and calculating and understood that the war would be won on skill and not strength. His initial military operations were based on the idea of the Flying Column: being a small, mobile unit of approximately 12 men, it could stay hidden in rural areas for days and then suddenly appear, attack and vanish (Rooney, 2004, pp.

The population after the industrial revolution was increasingly becoming hard to support and wages were undoubtedly insufficient and depressing (Introduction to Social Policy). Hence, the economic growth Britain tasted was cut short in face of population-induced poverty and throughout the years, she went through several mechanisms to resolve the situation.