History Essays

Women in war are often involved in armed combat against enemies while securing equipment, passing through hostile zones, or carrying out military functions and other important support roles. Similar to the men in such wars, many women have been seriously injured and killed. They keep on performing their tasks with willpower and remarkable audacity.

Enlightenment was the period of the scientific revolution, which has undermined old scientific and ancient geocentric conceptions of the cosmos and proposed a new approach to explaining the world, social order, and other concepts. It has brought dramatic revolutions in philosophy, science, politics and society, enlightened by the ideals of freedom. 

Africa thus became the greatest source of slaves and so were Native Americans. Moreover, most European countries had abolished the slave trade, especially of fellow Europeans. Portugal was the first market for the sale of imported African slaves. Transportation of slaves to colonies of the Americas was also prominent during this period through the Atlantic.

Most men who could defend the economy against intruders was also not available. This exposed Africa, India and other nations to colonialists, who had identified various resources in the continents. The creation of a weak economy that lacked defence forces led to the conquest of most African nations by colonies.

Of course, there were further complications on either side. While the threat perception in the US-centered on Soviet nuclear capability and political ambitions, the USSR was faced with political encirclement and growing antagonism with socialist China in the south, which achieved nuclear capability in 1964. 

Due to its continuous development, the Mongol Empire is considered as one of the largest land empires of the world. What fascinates historians is the phenomenon that though the Mongols are a nomadic tribe of the inner Asian steppes, yet they rose to become the masters of an enormous and dynamic empire.

Censorship in Russia was exercised uniquely by different Tsars. It was practised as a tool to curb the spread of information that was deemed as treacherous in the public sphere. It was used during wartime to ensure that the enemies did not acquire information that could assist them in strategizing an attack on the Russian Army.

Human interaction over the past few centuries has been characterized by violence, aggression, and the physical subservience of one person under another. Nationalism has been the driving force of inter-cultural exchange for hundreds of years and remains an important force in international relations. 

For forty-six years, Howard has steered his small steel manufacturing company in Manchester fairly well. He has invested in new machines, replaced the same after wear and tear, and watched as his small fortune accumulated. Within the same period, Howard has forlornly watched as the manufacturing industries in Britain go down a declivity.

Absolutism became effective for Louis XIV during his reign since it created a centralized system of authority and chain of command that is needed to surpass the disorganized government prior to his reign. Also, this increased foreign relations, trade and commerce as well as developed the taxation system of the land.

As one watched Chicano rights struggle documented and presented throughout the semester, it became apparently clear that what was learned as an individual also included the fact that everyone is equal and deserving of human rights—the right to be educated and have one’s child(ren) educated in a safe and appropriate manner. 

Although this battle started as a religious-oriented conflict, Catholics against Protestants, it later evolved more particularly into a conflict between France and the Hapsburgs. Battle one represented a defeat for Swedish attempts to control what is now modern  Germany while Spain and the Holy Roman Empire attempted to consolidate their gains.

The author states that Solon liberates Athenians of their debt by eliminating the traditional system that results in the enslavement of the poor by the upper class. Cleisthenes, however, completes the process of democracy by reorganizing the people into ten tribes cutting the interests of nobles in extending their power.

World War I effectively removed most of the advanced industrialized nations from the competition in world markets as well as in the Japanese market. This provided Japan with the opportunity to substitute domestically produced goods for imports and helped to increase the export of manufactured goods.

The period between 1770 to sometime around 1830 was marked by a number of social and economic factors, which in turn resulted in human societal transitions- both positive and negative. Such transitions included industrial revolution and agrarian revolution as activities graduated from hand production methods to machine production techniques, alongside new chemical manufacturing.

In order, therefore, to understand his works, it is essential to have a clear idea of his age. Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and King Lear is considered to be Universal because Shakespeare was not only a poet, a dramatic poet, working for stage, actors, and audience as he knows them. 

The culture that was built by the Romans is called classical and they could make a vast empire in Rome.  The mythological history of Rome states that it was built by Romulus and Remus, the twin wolfs. As the idiom, ‘Rome was not built in one day’, depicts the duration of building the Roman Empire.

Today, the company has over 3000 stores in the United States and is represented in many countries of the world as well. Gap Inc. is the working home environment for 134,000 employees that have been caring for customers from many countries of the world.

By objectively viewing their religious beliefs and practices, their governments and societies, the civilizations' treatment of family and gender, as well as by marking the similarities and differences among them, various intriguing information can be learned. The ancient Mesopotamian civilization had interesting religious beliefs and practices that were the first to be recorded in history.

first of bronze, then of iron, was preceded, at least in Europe, by a Stone Age in which stone, together with the bones of animals, Cervidae horn, and probably wood, were the materials for tools and arms. The Stone Age falls into two great divisions; the recent called the Neolithic, characterized by axes of a hard stone polished by rubbing; and the ancient or Paleolithic, in which stone, chiefly flint was worked by percussion.

Reports from Seventh Fleet report two critical radars used to detect air and surface threats, were not operating properly. Malfunctioning radars give false echoes or report threats that are not. The "battle" of August 4, 1964, is now generally believed not to have occurred; Admiral Stockdale reports no enemy ships or aircraft in the area.

Notably, this drives the argument that such happenings can only be well understood if the historical perspective of such happens are put into context of analysis formula. For this reason, history becomes critical in ascertaining for the knowledge needed in the interpretation of current happenings (Wendy and Susan 33).

The international community under the leadership of the United States took preventive measures to avert the possibility of another terrorist attack.  Al-Qaeda is an organization of Islamic extremists and fundamentalists, the organization was founded by Osama bin Laden. The organization was initially sponsored by CIA to fight against Soviet aggression in Afghanistan.  

His study is derived from primary sources from Chinese Archives supplying new info and study of the country’s leader Mao Zedong's actions in the Cold War era and also including present studies on Chinese security concerns.

Thus, to love the family and value work constitutes core British values for all overseas students to recognize, value, and adopt. Loving their families and adopting a good work ethic would enable overseas students to share British values and enable them to integrate themselves deep into British society.

In the light of higher taxation measures, it is essential that more economic activities should also be generated for creating higher income that would enable people to save some amount of money for their needs. The government failed to look into this aspect during the Ottoman Empire that brought about the decline spontaneously.

On the other hand, participants in various resistance movements bravely fought against their captors relentlessly perhaps because they already had an inkling of their faith after 1942. In early 1943, a group of poorly armed Jews, called the Jewish Combat Organization, in the Warsaw ghetto fought off a German ruse to transport Jews to a factory that was actually a death camp.

They were also not considered to be in a position to make decisions regarding finances, spending, or art patronage, yet they have been proven to have done so.  In accomplishing the power of leadership and power of patronage, women demonstrated that even without any official form of power, they were capable of taking enough control to keep their memories alive throughout the centuries.

Alexander was a legend in his own time. In the first centuries after Alexander's death, probably in Alexandria, a quantity of the more legendary material coalesced into a text known as the Alexander Romance. Alexander is also a character of Greek folklore, as the protagonist of 'apocryphal' tales of bravery. Alexander is also a character of a standard play in the Karagiozis repertory, "Alexander the Great and the Accursed Serpent".  

Washington would prove to be an excellent military commander and leader. However, he was human. He made mistakes, but he kept fighting. Despite his flaws, he proved to be a very good choice to lead our young nation to freedom from British oppression.

Germany was conquering and occupying the countries of Western Europe and Northern Africa, had engaged Russia and Britain in battle, and allied with Italy and Japan in a quest to rule the world. Japan was busy brutalizing parts of China and taking possession of the Pacific Rim nations.

The following discussion compares the religious, political, and social structures as well as the worldviews of Ancient Greece and Rome.  The civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome have arguably been amongst the most and influential throughout history.  There are as will be evaluated a lot of similarities as well as differences when it comes down to the religious, political, and social structures and worldviews of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Though the movement for individual rights, another basic element of the civilization, has been on since times immemorial, they were guaranteed in some modern democratic states in as late as the twentieth century. The foundation of the modern civilization was laid with the advent of science of technology during the age of Enlightenment.

Contrary to the wars fought in Africa: wars for poverty and racial discrimination, the wars in the Middle East had more complex reasons which need a thorough examination. Different studies have identified that conflicts in the Middle East region have an adverse effect on its economic growth and economic development, in addition to the social anarchy and long years of disruptions. 

Socially, French culture is known internationally for producing great and well-respected works of art as well as being outspoken and expressive regarding the free exchange of ideas. Liberty and the open confrontation of that which threatens personal or national well-being is very important as a facet of the social culture at large.

The successful solution of the crisis was selected as important as strength. We avoided any opening at the beginning of the battle by U.S. forces, and we took no action whatsoever that would have forced an immediate answer and cannot be properly considered. We limited our demands for the restoration of the status quo ante.

Segregation and division in the United States were mainly contributed by racism. This racism was mostly because the whites in the United States considered themselves superior beings and hence considered the colored inhabitants in the United States second-class citizens. Extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan were the perpetrators who were responsible for ensuring that the foreigners in the United States faced their demise.

This assignment delves deeper into philosophy to show how much one’s opinion can change how one perceives the world. This is concerning the two philosophies held by Mussolini in the course of his lifetime; socialism and fascism. It shows how power can affect the world in both positive and negative ways as was the case of Mussolini.

Protestant faith, and due to a perception of political absolutism on the part of his citizens, Catholic members of the country felt their only means of achieving religious freedom was through revolt and extermination of James, his family, and most of his Protestant aristocracy (Lindley, 1993: 44).

Nationalism and patriotism were very high in Britain precisely because they were able to build an Empire that directly or indirectly controlled many regions of the world. They were very proud of their achievements both in the economy and the battlefield. Suffice it to say, every Briton was ready and were actually very eager to fight for their glorious motherland.

Starting from the ancient, to the medieval, to the era of Reformation till the modern times, in forms of two consecutive and devastating World Wars, the Cold War and the Gulf Wars are burning examples that asserted truth behind the observation.

The beginnings of European expansion in the countries of the Far East could be traced as far back as the Age of the Great Discoveries. It was the time when the first European maritime empires sprang up. Those newly appeared empires with the exception of Spain deferred local kingdoms so intercourse with local cultures was between cultural equals. 

The administration of Roosevelt decided not to sterilize the inflow of gold since hoped for a great rise in monetary gold stock would arouse the depressed economy. The monetary development policy such as the aggregate demand stimulus led to the recovery of the great depression (The Journal of Economic History, pg 761).

The hot and arid climate of Egypt affects not only present times but also its ancient civilizations. Hassan, in the article “Desert Environment and Origins of Agriculture in Egypt,” discussed the relationship between climate, topography, and agriculture in Ancient Egypt. He argued that the dry weather of the Holocene period significantly influenced the domestication of cattle and the development of early agriculture.

The issue was that the cattle used to destroy crops that had been planted and the administration wanted these matters to be solved by the Spanish colonialism. This led to the demarcation of California in the year1804 into separate territorial administration since the number of Hispanic population had grown large (Cooper, 2005).

A demonstration bombing in a remote area of Japan would have been sufficient to affect surrender without using it on a civilian population.  The second bomb was entirely unnecessary even if the first could be justified.  Simply put, the Japanese people were pawns used in a political power play, the first of the ‘Cold War’ between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

European populace shifted from small towns or wilds to better areas of industry. This was extremely important in the conception as well as the expansion of chief cities. Through industrialization, large cities, as well as enormous populations in more crowded areas, the disparity among the working class as well as aristocracy had a perfect setting.

Japanese industry assumed a significant role in the production of supplies invested in the war effort against a new leftist menace to its Asian neighbors. The U.S. became a central exchange for Japanese commerce. Enigmatically, sixty years after Japan's surrender, the nation today enjoys a resilient political system, economic power, and something of the prominence as an Asian leader that it struggled to take by force prior to World War II.

Russia had experienced only a relatively short period of the effective and unified rule before the onset of the Time of Troubles, which would prove to be a period that witnessed foreign powers. Given the impact that a revitalized Russia had upon such countries, it was certainly a sound strategy upon their part.

Besides, finding out Haiti’s general features, the paper is going to examine in detail other aspects of Haiti such as its Agrarian Reforms and the impact it created with regard to the prevailing political scene with special emphasis on the rural changes that took place during that period. In addition to this, the paper would make an examination of the urbanization that took place in the country focusing on the aspect of the urban poor.