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Early America and the Oppression of Women

established that women were not always inherently oppressed around the world, a fair question arises: what is it about Western civ...

The Western Influence on the Countries of Africa Africa

6 pages and no sources. This paper considers the nature of western influences on the countries of Africa. Specifically, this pap...

Art of China Featured at LACMA

their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...

Europe and the Protestant Reformation

In five pages this paper examines how Europe's sociopolitical structure was impacted by the Protestant Reformation in a considerat...

After the Black Death by George Huppert

In five pages this research paper discusses Huppert's text chronicling the beginnings of Western culture and considers the authors...

Middle Ages and the Rise of Western Universities

This research paper discusses the few Western universities that originated from this time period and their influence upon Western ...

Lasting Impact of the Seneca Falls' Convention

In six pages this paper discusses women's rights and the impact of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention. Six sources are cited in the...

Stock Characters

portrayal. Plautuss cast was in no danger of impeding upon each others characterization, inasmuch as they all embraced their own ...

Ancient Political Systems

A 6 page research paper that discusses the political positions of various authors from the ancient world. The writer asserts that ...

The Vision of Alexander the Great

a third man, Lysimachus, was hired. From this tutor Alexander learned about culture and the fine arts such as art and music. Its c...

In Praise of American Empire by D’Souza

Iraq today under a misleading premise that it is being done for peace and democratic purposes. The truth is that there is an ulter...

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

Alexander the Great’s Successors & Hellenistic Culture

311, Cassander held 13-year-old Alexander IV, Alexander the Greats only surviving heir and his mother captive and he had them both...

The Competitive Move of Empire Blue Cross

This 3 page paper examines the Empire BCBS move in the mid-2000s when it went from a public to private enterprise. How this repres...

Religions in the Persian Empire 660 BC - 583 AD

Persian kings ... [and] became the official religion of the Achaemenid empire and flourished under its successors, the Parthian an...

The Importance of Assyrian History

first king to actually inflict his control past his own city-state (BetBasoo, 2006). He essentially laid down the model that all o...

Geoffrey Barraclough’s Unconventional Interpretation of the Carolingian Empire in The Crucible of Europe

Carolingian Empire was a complete unification of Europe, but the denial of the many regional differences and the steadfast refusal...

The Bill Gates Story

emphasize that it is a Microsoft world already. His childhood was rather ordinary. Bills father was a lawyer and his mother, a sc...

Justinian vs. Charlemagne

than its barbarian enemies, and seemed to be in the early stages of a broad economic expansion" (Treadgold, 2001, p. 50). But it ...

Iran Hostage Crisis: The Result Of Human Progress and Abandoned Morals

drive toward free speech and political freedom" (Rath, 1994, p. 530). The unrest became increasingly obvious with no chance to "q...

The Rise and Fall of Civilizations Between 1500 and 1815

world population was only about 425 million and most of those people lived in Asia (Roberts 279). Hence, Asia had quite a lot of p...

The Land Problem and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

assistance from the government. Another problem involving the land was the fact that aristocrats were buying up large tracts and ...

“The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century”

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

Great Britain's Concept of Empire

citizens by every means available. Most colonization takes place because the invading nation states that they do so in the foreign...

Ancient Egypt and What it Means to Be Part of an Empire

king of Egypt was unwilling to commit military to defend northern Syria" (The Gathering Storm, 2005). Perhaps because of their res...

Ancient Empires Collapse

of the Fifth Dynasty, Userkhaf (2465-2458 BC) "initiated reforms that weakened the Pharaoh and central government. After his reign...

How the British Empire Justified Colonization

(NZ History Net, 2003). After 1840 five new Zealand company settlements were established, Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth w...

Tools and 'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

and far-reaching. Defined as a breakthrough for human rights, the significance of his account speaks to the notion of struggle am...

Mughal, Persian, and Ottoman Muslim Empires Compared

As this empire grew in influence, they expanded into southeastern Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece (The Ottoman, Safavi...

First Balkan War and the Ottoman Empire

control.2 Both Bulgaria and Serbia signed a treaty on March 13, 1912 that allocated southern Macedonia to Bulgaria and Macedonia ...