According to Abu-Lughod, the period that falls between AD 1250 and 1350 is crucial to the history of the world because it acts as the 'turning point' of the previous and current systems. The initial [...]
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It is important to note that objects of material culture change over time due to the intermingling of communities, and this influences the way people lead their lives.
The "greatness" of Zora as a proficient American folklorist, anthropologist, and writer is evident when he became one of the writers at the center of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.
The struggle between the Americans and Amerindians for instance led to the passing of a constitution and restructuring of the government system so as to avoid anarchy.
In the entire history of the United States, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were the greatest advocators of freedom and civil rights. He believed that the whites were not to be allowed to misbehave [...]
The deal was a retort to the situation of the great depression and focused the concepts of 3R's, which according to the historian were termed as RELIEF, RECOVERY and REFORMS.
The Black cowboys consisted of various groups such as the "Wrangler," who comprised of a common subtype cowboy, whose tasks were specifically riding on horsebacks to guide plowing cattle in the fields.
However, drugs have never been such an acute problem as it used to be in the 1980s during the crack epidemic. Besides, it seems like the approach of the American government to the problem is [...]
In addition to the fact that the spies who carried out the act were part of his reelection campaign team, there was evidence proving that he created a hush fund to protect them from prosecution.
At the same time, the location of British North America was close enough to the settings of the Spanish conquerors to observe the dreadful effects of their rule.
The same explains the existence of certain vessels During the reign of the Zhou dynasty, there are elements of religion and.warfare which characterize the Bronze vessels.
Her position in Islam was reaffirmed by the Prophet who considered Fatima as one of the most significant women in Islam alongside the Pharaoh's wife Asiya, Mary the mother of Jesus, and the Prophet's wife, [...]
Armstrong became a naval aviator at the age of 20, and it marked the beginning of his illustrious career in aviation and aerospace.
Following the imperialist invasion and exploitation of the country in the early twentieth century, the nation was set on the verge of radical revolutions in all sectors.
Freed slaves and other opponents of the slave trade in the north agitated for release and freedom of slaves in the south.
Each country was famous for its particular products and searching for the new way to the East with the purpose to make increase the delivery of goods might be the reason for financing the voyage.
The charters and fueros, as well as the Digger Pamphlet, proves that the relations between poor and rich people had their own peculiarities and principles in different centuries and defined the quality of life according [...]
It also strengthened the relationship between America and many European countries, which led to the development of more political, economic and military influence in these regions compared to other parts of the globe.
The unease and dissatisfaction with this system culminated in the 1868 downfall of the Tokugawa Shogun at the height of Meiji establishment that spearheaded the modernization of Japan. To the middle-class Japanese, the West was [...]
The aim of this essay is to describe the system of castes in India as well as to characterize the diversity of Indian society. In general, the caste system in India represents the stratified hierarchy [...]
Written by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro in 1983, the book Son of the Revolution is a classical masterpiece, which highlights the tribulations of the Chinese people during the Mao's regime.
This instruction has in turn influenced the use of hijab among the Muslim women since the piece of cloth is used to conceal a woman's beauty, particularly the face, hair, and neck as per the [...]
Nelson Mandela's first name reveals the way the people of South Africa cherished their tribal traditions in the beginning of the twentieth century.
The book highlights struggles peasants in the Northwest have to contend with, to conform to new communist ideals advanced by the Communist Party.
However, his oratory skills were not always perfect and at some point in his life, he had to contend with speech impediment that he overcame to become the perfect orator.
Motivated by these historical events in the lives of Aboriginals this research paper intends to investigate and explore the issue of Trauma among Aboriginals: how it originated, how it was facilitated, the impacts manifested through [...]
Arguably, the media does not provide the correct description of the plantation women in the south because much of the ideas and characteristics given to women by the media are mythical and derived from novels [...]
The Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War remain the greatest accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln as a president of the US in the 1860s.
Gilmore's book attempts to describe gender relations under the Jim Crow system and the influence of black women on white supremacy in North Carolina in the 19th Century.
During the 16th and 17th century, the Spanish empire was one of the strongest empires in the world. Later on, during the 19th and 20th century, the British Empire became the largest and strongest empire [...]
In this essay, I will discuss five walls, namely: The Hadrian wall The Great wall of China The Berlin wall which separated East Germany from west Germany Moroccan wall The Maginot line between the border [...]
The main event is the parade along the Eastern Parkway and is the highlight of the day that ends at exactly six in the evening.
The book The Pillow of Sei Shonagon can be regarded as a comprehensive description of the life at Japanese court at the period of Heian society.
In fact, the people who first developed major components of the Linux operating system: Linus Torvalds who developed the kernel, and Richard Stallman who had developed utilities and programs that were used in Linux, shared [...]
Following the ratification of the new marriage law in 1950, the reforms were extended to the rest of the nation even though they had only been tested in the border areas.
According to Hobsbawm, the bourgeoisie can be discussed in relation to such notions as privacy, property, education, and sport as the determining components of the specific lifestyle, and the role of women in the society [...]
The explanation concerning African Diaspora as a process describes a continuous trend related to the formation of African Diaspora through migration where the Diasporas and Africa continue to maintain linkages. The African race as a [...]
In the year 1975, Tutu was given the position of the dean and he served in this capacity in St. Tutu immediately realized the lack of willingness of the South Africa's white government to engage [...]
The plan also lad the ground works for the integration of European nations, a plan which has culminated in the emergence of the European Union. On the negative, the paper notes that the plan was [...]
Furthermore, the voting right act of 1965 restored and protected the voting rights of the African-Americans. Therefore, this demonstrated the disparities and the level of segregation that the whites showed to their African-American counterparts.
The author criticizes the historiography of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade by pointing out that the participation of the Dutch in this trade was not given the attention that it deserved.
Discussions among intellectuals and scholars in the Diaspora field of study the definition of Diaspora is the mainly referred to the manifestation of dispersion.
Some of the ancient trading activities included the exchange of food crops which led to development of agriculture in various territories."Ideas also spread and developed through trading activities". At this time many people were concerned [...]
Five year later, Anwar Sadat assumed the position of the secretary to the National Union and eventually the speaker of the legislative assembly from 1960 to 1968.
In 1960, the East Germany exodus now totaling to millions of civilians was predictably damaging to the political integrity and economic capability of East Germany, making it vital to fortify its borders with the west, [...]
The evidence of his greatness is revealed by the massive conquests he made. He was assassinated in the process, and Alexander took over the throne.
Although researchers propose different views to answer the question, the general impact of the Cultural Revolution on the education in China during the 1960s-1970s can be discussed as negative because of the strong connection of [...]
The rules and policies produced by the international laws state that as long as there is intent to systematically get rid of a group of people and there is the act itself, it is genocide.
While the crisis is taking place in Syria, some spillover of the war has been witnessed in the neighboring countries. Some of the minority Christians supported the President in the past because they saw it [...]
The elite were the rich people, and majority of the population that comprised of the common farmers, artisans, and merchants known as the plebeians occupied the low status.
However, the writers of then published stuffs, plays and articles, which were full of satire addressing how the real case was the opposite of what the people claimed about the century.
2 He emphasizes that every outstanding accomplishment in the current society originated from the thoughts of the great persons and he refers to these great persons as leaders, modelers, and even creators of the history [...]
In the 1600s, a majority of the bonded labourers who occupied the British interior settlements were white Europeans as opposed to black Africans. The slaves were given pieces of land, which they were supposed to [...]
The argument against the constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase is founded on the fact that the responsibility of acquiring new territory was not defined in the US constitution.
Thus, the Revolutionary War resulted in the victory of the American colonists because the experienced British army was defeated with the help of the new military techniques, approaches, and strategies, the Americans had the territory [...]
Because of his exploits in the Crusades, Saladin is perceived as the chief "hero" of the Crusades by both his Islamic side and the Christian side.
This paper will therefore explore the history of immigration in the United States. However, they are the most decorated in history of United States.
His association with the Nation of Islam equally put him to the limelight, as he headed the movement from the year 1934 to 1975 when he died, leaving his legacy and philosophy enshrined in the [...]
After grabbing the ancestral lands from the Caribbean people, the Amazonians went on to influence the Caribbean people's way of thinking by introducing civilisation.
His role as a leader among the Mandinka people of Mali since the time when he founded the Mali Empire in the year 1230, till his sudden death in 1255 propelled him to the rank [...]
As long as the fallacies of integrity and closure are upheld, a desire to penetrate becomes a desire to rape.[3] The above statement also reveals an important feature of the act of rape that it [...]
In order to understand the struggle of African Americans to achieve equality in America, it is important to go back to the starting point.
Addams first gained fame as the head of Hull House an institution offering educational, recreational, and other services to the needy people whom she and a friend founded in Chicago in 1889.
Nevertheless the benefits of historic preservation, lie in the preservation of the Stone Harbor sense of belonging, visitor will be in a position to visit and access the stone harbor's history.
Anglicans in the south argued that slaves were entitled to a right to freedom of worship and for this to be achieved slaves had to be able to read the word of God from the [...]
The narrative of Equiano's life Equiano was born in Africa in a country known as Benin, his family included seven members and Equiano was the youngest in the family that only had one sister; during [...]
For example, women in the Navy Nurse Corps and Army Nurse Corp were sent to take part in the Vietnam War and the Korean War.
Communal Changes Spurred By Lowell Mills Girls The girls working for the mills afforded the Lowell Mills associates with glut of their skill and labor a factor which caused the industry to blossom to be [...]
James was a hard worker and thus in India, by the help of his wife, he strengthened his illegal trade. This was a terrible extremity to Elizabeth and her husband.
While I have had many inventions in my time, I concede that my discovery of the use of the pendulum for the measurement of time is the most significant one and while this blindness that [...]
Kennedy as the 35th president of the United States is an important figure in the history of the country. The title of the book is self explanatory, showing the author's position as to the president's [...]
This period, also known as the roaring twenties, is a decade that started with the end of the First World War and ended with the start of the great depression of the 1930s.
Both Woolf and Rich agree that education is a means for women to grow, and both agree that it is absolutely the responsibility of women to seek their own education.
Greek, Indian, and other civilizations demonstrate different treatments of women; the status of women has been changed considerably with time but still some grounds allow to evaluate the peculiarity of each nation and to define [...]
The attitude to the atomic bomb and its role in the Cold War sufficiently changed with the course of time, and this change is reflected, in particular, in the coverage of Cold War events by [...]
The slaves were to serve their masters who were the whites. This paper discusses the challenges that the slaves encountered as well as their resistance and the relativity of slavery to gender.
In relation to the opposition of the election and ideas of President Lincoln, 11 states on the Southern part of the United States of America separated from the rest of the states and formed the [...]
The American Revolution: In 1775-1783, America experienced a revolution and the government of France sent its troops and navy to help the rebelling colonists. This consequently led to the rise of hunger and high prices [...]
Though some of the documents were not originally from that period, the fact that they covered the period and they were later used as the prime sources of information qualifies them to be primary sources [...]
The Paris Treaty was used to ratify the conflict and after that, the Spanish colonies were taken over by the government of U.S.A."These territories included Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the Guam, and it also [...]
That is the reason why the society was referred to as the blue vein society, and the members were called the Blue veins. The writer acknowledges the darkness that Ryder was in and how he [...]
Amidst these horrifying circumstances, the agonized cries of women and the mournful groans of the dying set a scene of abject horror, etching the Middle Passage into the collective memory as an ordeal that haunted [...]
In examining Thomas Heyward Jr.'s life, we gain insight into the bravery and commitment of those who played a pivotal role in shaping the foundations of the United States. In the latter part of his [...]
The central thesis of this text is that the Berlin Conference is often unfairly considered the starting point of colonialism in Africa.
The 1930s were a decade of extraordinary expansion and influence for labor unions in the United States, making it a crucial decade for workers.
After the surrender of the Confederate forces and the end of the American Civil War, the divided United States quickly needed to reunite.
Big History is a field of study that attempts to examine the comprehensive history of the Earth, cosmos, humanity, and life by use of the best possible evidence-based research and academic approaches.
What stands out most about this film is the tenacity and will of the civil rights activists who confronted racial segregation in the American South in the early 1960s.
The rapid rise of Idi Amin to power and the subsequent seizure of the government that ruled Uganda at the time demonstrates that unethical people will seek to establish control over citizens as soon as [...]
The settlement by the powers differed in terms of the number of settlers, the gender ratio, and their cultural impact. One of the primary intentions of the English settlers was to colonize the region seize [...]
During the Cold War, the polarizing gender ideology and the expressive dichotomy between men and women was a means of gaining an advantage in the capitalism-socialism struggle in the global political arena.
Then, Dothan was a station on the Underground Railroad, a system of hidden passageways and safe houses that slaves used to get to freedom in the North. Then, the Ironbound area of East Orange has [...]
In 1814, he began his work on interpreting the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone as depicted in the documentary, 'Mystery of The Rosetta Stone: Documentary on Ancient Egypt and the Rosetta Stone.' During this process, [...]
While each of the four issues deserves attention, the desire of Athens to control all the other states of Greece seems to have served as the major impetus for the Peloponnesian Wars outbreak.
Although the Homestead Act had great potential for the development of the economy and agriculture in the United States, the government and the wealthy were the main beneficiaries of this law.
The Byzantine Empire, which emerged in the East, claimed to be the legitimate successor of the Roman Empire, and its rulers continued to use the title of 'Emperor.' The Byzantine Empire maintained much of the [...]
The current essay demonstrates the importance of interaction between civilized peoples and barbarians by explaining the outcomes of cultural exchange and potential reasons for conflict.
In his article "The Political Order" Philip Brown explores the peculiarities of the Tokugawa political order, arguing that the order's structure brought great stability to Japan for two and a half centuries but failed to [...]
The settlements in North Carolina were considered significant parts of the frontier, or backcountry, and became formally included in modern Mountain and Piedmont regions.
In different forms and to various degrees, the impulses of modernity influence not only the historian's approach to the study of the past but likewise the results of this study.
However, the king did not control all aspects of the kingdom: some branches were controlled by the elites, for example, the Chief of the Scribes.
During the American Revolutionary War, disease and enemy forces were two of the biggest perils of the army. The fever rises on the fourth day of infection, and the first smallpox sores form in the [...]
Consequently, in chapter 2, Tocqueville explains that the Church was targeted by the anti-elitist and semi-anarchist aims of the Revolution due to being a part of the feudal system.
Jared Diamond is among such scientists, and his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, comments on how ancient cultures developed and explains why Eurasia dominated the rest of the world.
In order to solve the issue, the individuals were forced to balance the power in Congress between free states and slaves leading to the adoption of the Missouri Compromise in 1820.
Consequently, even though the Aztecs were one of the most powerful nations in the sixteenth century, the Spanish managed to fight with them and colonize part of their lands using advanced innovations.
At the peak of its power, the empire stretched from the northeastern territories of modern Ecuador to the northern part of Chile, with the capital Cuzco located in Peru.
Thus, Van Sertima's lecture points to the inability of scientific society to go against conventional theory in the complex subject of history.
It is reasonable to conclude that most individuals in the Caribbean associate with Africa and its cultures since they cherish and acknowledge their forefathers, shipped from the continent to the Caribbean by Europeans as slaves.
The spread of bubonic plague was one of the largest epidemics in the history of humankind. The second pandemic of the disease took a significant part of the European population in the 14th century.
Additionally, with the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson set the foundation for the abolition of slavery in the future. Thus, the claim that Jefferson's participation in slavery invalidates his writing of the Declaration of Independence is [...]
Charlemagne and Einhard justify Frank's conquest and treatment administered to the Saxons and Lombards by stating that these two groups were in a conspiracy against Charlemagne and the Franks. He began his efforts to conquer [...]
Princess Diana was one of the first members of the royal family to expose the truth about her relationships with the Queen and the Prince and her personal affairs.
In contrast, Rhode Island colonists had the greatest number of freedoms of all colonies and could elect the governor and make their laws.
The increase in food production and income from the war led to increased fertility rates among the Irish. The abrupt end of the war in the early nineteenth century precipitated the emigration.
In the end, despite the bewitching story at the junction of mysticism and reality, the nobleman is still depressed and afraid of the court. The words of the Serpent once again confirm that the island [...]
The importance of this event appeared from the fact that the Irish migration was one of the most significant contributors to the American immigrants' inflow.
The French Revolution is the most striking example to study the causes of any revolution, as well as the English Civil War and Russian Revolution.
In contrast, Aztec creation stories are based on dismembered gods, and thus the origin of the world is catastrophic violence, which explains why Aztec art depicts divinity as gruesome and awe-inspiring.