To describe the intelligence and cleverness of Napoleon is a task not unlike the way he led his own armies, something to be broken down into sections and examined. For Napoleon was himself a man of details, meticulous and methodical. He fully believed that victory was based on two things, fast and hard attacks using…
Abba Eban was born Aubrey Solomon Eban in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 2, 1915. Early in his life he moved to England and went to school there. While he was in England, World War II broke out and he joined the British Army. While he was in the army he managed to rise…
The Ethiopian Jews are a very interesting story. Jews have been in Ethiopia for a long time. In, the 4th century in Ethiopia there was a rise in Christianity. The people in charge of the country said that all people had to convert to Christianity. Any Jew who refused to convert to Christianity was persecuted.…
Name of Colony Date Founded Reason for Colony’s Establishment Founder Primary Economic Base Roanoke(Virginia) 1587 To establish themselves in NA John White N/A-did not last long enough Jamestown(Virginia) 1607 To find gold and a water route to Asia Captain John Smith Tobacco Maryland March 25, 1634 To create a place where English Catholics could go…
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919. When he was just a year old, Jackie moved to Pasadena, California in 1920. As Jackie got older he went on to become a university student at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles). While he was at UCLA, Jackie was a star in…
Name of Colony Date Founded Reason For Colony’s Establishment Founder Primary Economic Base Plymouth (Massachusetts) 1620 Separatists who desired to remain separate from the Anglican Church went to Plymouth William Bradford Agriculture(fishing, corn), Manufacturing (lumbering, shipbuilding) Salem (Massachusetts) 1630 English society was corrupt and as many people needed to be evacuated as possible John Winthrop…
Name of Colony Date Founded Reason For Colony’s Establishment Founder Primary Economic Base New Jersey(New Netherlands) 1623 by Dutch, 1664 by English Originally settled by Dutch in 1623. Taken over by British. Proprietary grant made by Duke of York to George Carteret and Lord Berkeley English Colonists Manufacturing (ironworking, lumbering) New York (New Amsterdam) 1624…
Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels were leading Prussian political theorists who developed Communism in the mid-19th century. Their most famous work, The Communist Manifesto was produced for the Communist League in 1848 in Brussels after Marx had been expelled from Prussia and France for his radical leftist beliefs. The Communist Manifesto argues that class struggles…
Dominating from 1961 until his assassination in 1979, Park Chung Hee was a powerful anti-Communist dictator and the president of South Korea. He used the forces of torture and fatal violence to bring forth his authority for his country. Park served in the Japanese Imperial armed forces where he was inspired to rule and bring…
Origins of Tragedy Annual spring festival of the gods Dionysus, called the Great or City of Dionysia to distinguish between the lesser rural festivities for Dionysus Tragedy came into existence simultaneously with gradual transforming of Athens into democracy Arrangements of the festival lay in the hands of eponymous archon and choregoi, wealthy citizens were required…
Jean Jacques Rousseau, a French political philosopher, published The Social Contract in 1762, during the peak of the French Enlightenment.[1] Rousseau argued that no one person was entitled to have natural authority over others.[2] He continued his argument by suggesting that an agreement should be formed, in which all individuals give up their natural liberty…
In 1929 Joseph Stalin, the Communist leader, started a revolution that would transform the Soviet Union’s economy. A major aspect of the Stalin revolution consisted of forced collectivization of agriculture. From 1929-1933, the collectivization drive met resistance, resulting in the liquidation of an estimated five million successful peasants called Kulaks.[1] In 1978, Lev Kopelev published…
Aftermath of the War: 480-477 Thessaly, Macedonia sided with Persia, not all the Greeks resisted What did the Greek who won want to do with all the land along the Aegean Sparta was the leader, everyone looked to them, they were the strategist Spartans were sort of sluggish, never thought about establishing an empire, very…
Classical Greek Art and Architecture Greek Classical art considered the quintessence of art, the high point of ancient Greece art, of all art Athens, so wealthy, so forward, most sculptors, most evidence comes from Athens Even if sculptors weren’t from Athens, they moved there to practice their art Evidence is so limited from 480BCE- to…
The Analects, written and compiled by some of the world’s greatest ancient thinkers is the basis of Chinese and East Asian intellectual thought. The writing is a collection of Confucius’ teachings and concepts later rectified by his pupils shortly after his death. These teachings later established themselves to be one of the most historically influential…
Assyrians “Bandit-Kings”, destroyed in 612 BC First major aggressive power in this part of the world Would terrorize villages to get food and money and then would leave Never took control of an area If they were obeyed, it was fine, but if a village disobeyed, they were very ferocious Final China, Egypt, Babylon and…
Homer and History Influential poet, every Athenian schoolboy studied and knew his works by heart A guild, the Homeridae claiming to be descendants of Homer devotes their lives to the recitations of his poems (rhapsodes, did professional recitations of Homer) Apart from his name, all aspects of Homer are controversial, the exact time of his…
Plato’s greatest pupil, never found Socrates His beliefs contrasted Plato & Socrates Plato & Socrates tries to deduce things using his mind, what is love? As if trying to explain something very abstract, the form of love Aristotle uses raw data, would interview people, use information, say this is love, first great research scientist that…
Transition from Greek world to Roman world, if it wasn’t for what he did, the Romans wouldn’t have found this preserved Greek empire When Roman conquered what Alexander conquered they inherited the Greek culture, saw the transition of the two glorious eras Throughout the eastern Mediterranean, the Romans met with Greek literature, art, gymnasiums, acted as…
Russian invasion in 1979 basically destroyed education as many of the teachers fled the country. The curriculum mainly consisted of religious education instead of math, science, literature, etc. 1996 Taliban banned females from going to school Mosque schools were the only schooling options for most 2003 after overthrow of Taliban, 7000 schools were open and…
