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Why Did the Roman Empire Fall?

life-span of cities and the formulation and decline of the empires and civilizations. The Romans themselves took many elements of...

Websites on Black History and Information Verification

Europe" (also by Rashidi) also identifies Moors as synonymous with black Africans and describes how Moorish soldiers cross over fr...

Historical Analysis of Edward Gibbons' 'The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' and Tacitus' 'The Annals'

In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...

American Holocaust by David Stannard

In six pages Stannard's contention that the Europeans were responsible for world history's greatest acts of genocide in the exterm...

Asia and Western Expansionism

The ways in which modernization in Asia was influenced by Western expansion are examined in five pages with references made to She...

Gay History

In five pages this paper considers the history of homosexuality in ancient Greece, Japan of the seventeenth century, England of th...

Jean de Coras verses Gertrude B. Himmlefarb in The Return Of Martin Guerre and The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals

In this six paper paper the writer explores the book by Jean de Coras and updated by Nathalie Z. Davis. This exploration occurs a...

Wealthy Families in New York City History

The part played by New York's wealthiest families in the city's history is outlined and discussed. The writer describes how the Ro...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer

In fifteen pages Shirer's text is critiqued in terms of the way in which the author uses his own personal experiences along with v...

Politics, Health, Crime, and Code of Hammurabi

In six pages this research paper examines the Code of Hammurabi which is widely regarded as history's oldest legal code. Seven so...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Islamic Militarism Since 600 A.D.

of Toledo. Bypassing Spanish Christian survivors that were huddled in the mountains of northwest Spain, Muslim armies pushed on an...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Africa and Profit From Slave Trade

(Shillington 20). Tunde Obadina, director of Africa Business Information Services, asserts that the "vast majority of slaves tak...

History of Professional Football and How it was Affected by World and National EventsA History of Professional Football

This paper examines the history of professional football, and discusses how it was affected by both world and national events such...

The Great Depression History Firsthand by Dennis Nishi Summary and Review of Dennis Nishi's “The Great Depression (History Firsthand)”

the stock market crash of October 1929 that blindsided everyone even though there had been disturbing warning signs surfacing week...

A History of The Council of Florence

papacy for the council believed that the pope should be second to the council (Council of Basel, 2005). In the Council of Constanc...

Wedding Dress History

at" (Davies, 2001). In essence, in many cultures, if not most, the wedding dress was the closest most women would ever com...

History and SWOT Analysis of Federal Express

adopt its global brand name of FedEx Corporation (FedEx, About, 2006). FedEx acquired many companies over the years, such as its...

UK Immigration History

a cosmopolitan city. 4. Iraq and Britain 4:a Iraqi cultures: diversity in the homeland. 4:b Relations between Britain and Iraq:...

Alzheimer's Disease History Overview

November 1906, Alzheimer described eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde (a peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex) - the cli...

History of Skywriting

of pilots" (Hartill, 2000, p. 22). Mansfield "soloed at 13, and sky-wrote his first word ("fly") seven years later. Hes constantly...

Spirituality and 4 Periods of History

In four pages this paper considers spirituality during early Christian, Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation, and in the contempo...

Modernity and History

the modernist viewpoint, it is this worldview that spawned the Scientific Revolution and its energetic offspring, the Industrial R...

American History Themes of Imperialism and War

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

Cocaine and its History

"stimulant, aid to digestion, aphrodisiac and life-extender" (Appelboom, 1991)....

History of Al Qaeda

is not new, though the 9/11 attack suddenly made everyone aware of it (Flaherty, 2003, p. 30). Americans can be remarkably blind t...

“American History X": Sociological Analysis

above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...