The Atomic Bomb And The Manhattan Project
.... bomb. Although it took a while for Roosevelt to realize what we had stumbled upon, his close friend Alexander Sachs helped him realize the possibilities. Two years later in November Roosevelt appointed a committee to advise him on nuclear fission and the capabilities of the concept in war. At the head of this committee was Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. About a month later, an event happened that would change the history books forever. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at about 7:50 in .....
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Maya Civilization
.... Maya civilization. The rivers originate in the mountains and flow towards the Pacific Ocean on the west coast, and towards the Gulf of Mexico in the southern lowlands. These rivers serve as transportation from city to city. The best soils are found in the southern highland valleys where volcanic eruptions have enriched the earth.
The Maya today number about six million people, making them the largest single block of indigenous peoples north of Peru. Some of the largest groups are found in Mexico. In s .....
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Celtic Invasions
.... competition.
This extreme desire to conquer is what drove the Celts to their numerous invasions and conquests. First, they conquered the Iberian Peninsula, which is present day Spain. Next, they went on to conquer the Etruscans, and then Rome. The Celtic chieftain Brennos, who invaded Greece and nearly conquered Delphi, was defeated by the Greeks who crushed his army. Another explanation of the outcome of this battle was the natural disasters involved. There was an earthquake and possible flooding .....
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The History And Deline Of The Roman Empire
.... of happiness and prosperity. Some of the symptoms, at least, can be recognized. Many financial (economical), social, and political (including military) reasons can be seen as a cause to the powerful Empire's crumbling.
Financial burdens began to be imposed on the local magistrates and senators, and by the second century many cities had spent themselves into debt. There was the cost of repairing and maintaining the temples, public baths, and the like. There were also heavy expenditures for civic sacri .....
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The Cajun-Creole Conflict
.... Commandment Nicolas Verret tried to force the Cajuns to pay more than the previously established amount, they objected profusely. The Cajuns gave in only when given an ultimatum by the chief executive.
This confrontation was followed by two major disputes: the Bellevue and Valentin affairs. The Bellevue incident took place in September, 1770 when Governor Luis de Unzaga directed chevalier Le Grand de Bellevue to survey property holdings along the Mississippi River. The Cajuns did not like the way the .....
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The Middle Ages And The Renaissance
.... in only the northern part of Italy as a result of the resistance faced by the popes. There, the Lombards were able to strengthen and unify their political structure.
As the Lombards were becoming more politically unified, southern Italy was becoming a place for revolts. As a result, the Lombards, lead by Liutprand, were able to break through the resistance in the now unstable southern Italy. Liutprand's rule over Italy had caused some Lombards to convert from Arianism to Roman Catholicism. In .....
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General Denis Sassou Nguesso And The Congo-Brazzaville Conflict
.... destroyed" and resembled a ghost town. They said dead bodies, many rotting, littered the streets. The mission, made up of field representatives from DHA, UNICEF, WFP, WHO and leading NGOs, also reported the cargo and passenger units of the Maya-Maya international airport were badly damaged, but said the tower seemed to be functioning. A field hospital in Kintele, set up by MSF-H two weeks ago, was reported to be in an appalling condition with no supplies or medicines left. Some 2,000 Rwandan refugees, i .....
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The Fall Of The Roman Empire
.... The major breaking point of the Roman Empire came in the second half of the fourth century when ferocious warriors from Asia, known as Huns, moved into eastern Europe and in turn put pressure on the German Visigoths to move west across the Danube into Roman territory. The Goths were originally Roman allies, but they soon revolted and became enemies. The Goths sacked Rome in 410 AD and the Vandals, who attacked Spain and Northern Africa, sacked Rome in 455 AD. This theory, based almost solely on fact, .....
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The Zhou Dynasty
.... attempt to unify the country, the Zhou developed a system of feudalism in which, a Wang assigns a piece of land to a trusted vassal to rule. In was in the vassal’s best interest to remain loyal to the king and to stay in power. However, most of the lords had become corrupt and spoiled in hopes of gaining power and controlling the entire kingdom. King Wen tried to overcome this problem by buttering up the vassal states and the noble families. They established a system of chivalry, almost, which set out .....
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Life And Times In The Middle Ages
.... he was kept away from the kingdom during his childhood. He gathered some really great knights in his court. Problems of precedence were avoided by using the round table at meetings. King Arthur has a big influence on literature, art, music, and society from the Middle Ages to the present. There is a huge debate on his existence because there is no conclusive evidence to prove he ever existed. In all the legends about King Arthur, he was a hero to many. His character is a strong, brave, and genuine ma .....
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The Kosovo Conflict
.... conflicts between Serbs and Albanians. At Kosovo and Metohija, during the Serbian insurrections in the so-called Belgrade Pashaluk (administrative-territorial unit), there was a terror without justification, marked with the obvious plan of the extermination and exile of the Serbs from the entire Old Serbia. During the 1850s and the 1860s, the genocide against the Serbian people was confirmed by a great number of documents, of grievances to the Turkish administration against the crimes of the Albanians and .....
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The Black Death In Europe
.... (Vialt 6). One of the only writers to illustrate the horrors of this plague was Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio wrote out of Florence and described the “ravages” of the Black Death in the city (Drabble 113). The Decameron is a collection of tales that were “assembled in their definitive form” sometime between 1349 and 1351 (Drabble 260). In his “The Disease of All Diseases” James Fenton describes his assertions on Boccaccio’ s Decameron. Fenton is astonished at the knowledge that Boccaccio presents a .....
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Monarchical Power In England
.... and their most notable justiciars effected monarchical power, specific areas to be looked at will be legal affairs including the dispensation of justice and jurisdiction; the Exchequer and the systems of collecting revenue and taxes; feudal lords and their reaction to increased Kingly power; and also the clergy whose capabilities were restricted. This new era of officialdom whereby 'a regular staff was appointed to execute specific administrative tasks and thus to carry out the rulers political intentions .....
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Rebellion Of Company Rule In 1857 In India
.... Company's army had led to many unsatisfied and discontented soldiers decades before the revolt. There were mutinies by both the Madras army and Bengal army by 1815, and several others followed suit. In the 1850's, many soldiers from the Bengal army were alienated and lost some of their pay and prestige.
There were rumors of gun cartridges being greased with animal fat from cows and pigs, which came as an insult to the integrity of the some of the soldiers. The Hindus and Muslims were offended at this atte .....
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The Cause For The Great Migrations
.... Asiatic homeland and terrorized Western Europe. The course the Huns took was that of many raids. Their great chief Attila established his horde on the plain of the Danube and from there he led the Huns on raids into both Gaul and Italy. With Attila’s death in 453, the Hunnic empire disintegrated, but the Huns had already given impetus to the great movement of peoples that marks the beginning of the middle ages. The beginning of the Middle Ages would be the final outcome from the “Great Migrations.” Th .....
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