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- 1081: The Accomplishments of Alexander the Great
- ... Athens and Thebes were to unite in war against Macedon. In 335 B.C. Alexander decided to punish the city for what he regarded as treachery; . The city was destroyed and its people sold into slavery or killed. All of the city_s buildings were destroyed except for temples and the house of Pindar the poet. Pindar was long dead, but Alexander wanted to prove that even a Macedonian conqueror could ...
- 1082: The Works and Life of Charles Dickens
- ... stream of novels. Composing traveling books, editing weekly periodicals, administering charitable organizations, and social reforms, Dickens became very well known. In 1842, he lectured in the United States in favor of an international opposition to slavery soon to be followed by the publication of A Christmas Carol, an ever- popular children's story. Well known throughout America and England, Dickens life was shadowed by domestic unhappiness. He later divorced his wife ...
- 1083: Abraham Lincoln - Civil War President
- ... prevented unrest when unity was needed to fight the Confederacy. Lincoln appointed generals that, though not always successful, were competent, including the famed Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln kept national unity, moderating his own views of slavery to keep the border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland. He managed to stop and European nations from interfering with his foreign diplomacy and his speeches, such as the famed Gettysburg address, held the ...
- 1084: Essay on Christopher Columbus
- ... American population. Columbus had benevolent contributions, but the persecution of Native Americans does and should not condone him from his faults. Native Americans were doomed by European arrogance, brutality, and infectious diseases. Columbus' gift was slavery to those who greeted him. Columbus' arrival to the New World, set in motion a destruction of the world he entered.
- 1085: Thomas Jefferson
- ... to 1781. During this brief private interval (1781-1783) he began to write the Notes on the State of Virginia, which was published in 1785. In this document there are some of his opinions on slavery. From 1783 to 1784 he was a member of the Continental Congress. While Jefferson was secretary of state from 1790 to 1793, Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury, defeated the movement for commercial discrimination against ...
- 1086: The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
- ... a steamboat pilot to a reporter to half- hearted confederate soldier. Many of Twain's stories reflected that period of life in America. Many of the topics had to do with major issues such as slavery in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's many experiences in life gave him first hand insight into what he wrote about, making many of his stories very realistic, it almost seems like you are ...
- 1087: The Cause For The Great Migrations
- ... south of the Danube. In 376 the emperor Valens admitted them into the Empire. The Visigoths wanted to settle peacefully but the Byzantine officials treated them miserably, raping their women and forcing their children into slavery. The Goths rebelled against Valens. Valens led an expedition against them and at the battle of Adrianople in 378 the Visigoths cavalry won over the Roman foot soldier. Visigoths continued moving westward sacking Rome in ...
- 1088: The Discovery of The New World Changed European Conceptions, Views, and Material Conditions
- ... finally, the New Laws were set up in 1542. The New Laws ordered a reform in the administration of Spanish territories in America and laid down new regulations of Native Americans. These laws ended the slavery. On the whole, Spaniards and other Europeans regarded Native Americans as inferior beings, capable only of serving and learning from Europeans. Spanish government treated America as a remote province of Spain. They did not take ...
- 1089: The French Revolution
- ... were changes in the lifestyle of the people,as well as in clothes and art. The monarchies were gone, and the king no longer ruled. Te National Convention abolished all feudal customs and ended all slavery. Revolutionary leaders also established the metric system. They wanted to set up free public schools, but that never came about, due to the economic problems. In 1795, after the total ending of the Reign of ...
- 1090: The French Revolution
- ... were changes in the lifestyle of the people,as well as in clothes and art. The monarchies were gone, and the king no longer ruled. Te National Convention abolished all feudal customs and ended all slavery. Revolutionary leaders also established the metric system. They wanted to set up free public schools, but that never came about, due to the economic problems. In 1795, after the total ending of the Reign of ...
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