category: world history

History of the World from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

... age should take the government out of her hands , poisoned five of them ; the youngest only having escaped her cruelty by being conveyed out of the kingdom . She was soon , however , put to death by her sub- jects , who rose in rebellion ...

The Global Experience: Readings in world history to 1550

... global themes . In preparing this collection , we had three concerns in mind . First , any informed understanding of ... civilizations . Second , to encourage the comparative study of world history ... third edition . In Volume I xiii Preface.

The Global Experience: Readings in World History Since 1550

... world at the opening of the third millennium when the world is rapidly ... civilizations . Second , to encourage the comparative study of world history and to reinforce the underlying links between ... third edition . In Volume I xiii Preface.

Mediœval history

... hall Thor went to sleep , but was aroused by a terrible earthquake , whereupon he and his companions crept into a chamber which communicated with the hall . At daybreak they found an immence giant ... king , Utgard Loki . This king inquired ...

Mediæval history

... hall Thor went to sleep , but was aroused by a terrible earthquake , whereupon he and his companions crept into a chamber which communicated with the hall . At daybreak they found an immence giant ... king , Utgard Loki . This king inquired ...

Medieval history

... hall Thor went to sleep , but was aroused by a terrible earthquake , whereupon he and his companions crept into a chamber which communicated with the hall . At daybreak they found an immence giant ... king , Utgard Loki . This king inquired ...

New International Atlas of the World: Including "Chronicle of Conquest" Supplement, a Composite Resume of the Rise and Fall of Nations : Close to 200 Maps and Illustrations

... Canon Mt. Wilson Mt.Perkins Squaw Pk . Whitehills Mt.Davi Mt.Tipton N Mineral Park Chloride Mineral Cerbato Union St.George E ليا G P 112 R Fa G I T Pine Valley N U Glendale ( K Virgin TON Littlefield Black Rock ... Tab Mt. Mt Geronimo Fains ...

A Short History of the World

... FIRST CIVILIZATIONS By 1000 BC an arbitrary date - civilization was well - established east of the Fertile Crescent and Egypt . Both India and China had by then evolved dis- tinctive patterns of civilized life . Whatever their ...

The Second Book of History: Including the Modern History of Europe, Africa, and Asia ... : Designed as a Sequel to the First Book of History

... go round ing , and blindly obedient . Uniting the leader , about to attend them , with goblets and beak- judge and divine minister , he now declared and a cup of flowing wine : their heads he had received the divine permission to use ...

Ancient Greece and Rome

... Ptolemy Physcon , Alexander Zabínas became King of Syria , but , like his ... PTOLEMY IX . , Láthyrus , succeeded his father , Ptolemy Physcon , on the ... the crown , and great confusion prevailed , while Cyprus became an entirely ...

Library of Universal History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time; Embracing a General Survey of the Progress of Mankind in National and Social Life, Civil Government, Religion, Literature, Science and Art

... Ptolemy XI . and killed him ( B. C. 80 ) . During the next fifteen years ( B. C. 80-65 ) a number of pretenders claimed the crown , and great confusion prevailed , while Cyprus became an entirely independent kingdom . PTOLEMY XII ...

Nations of the World: Prescott, W. H. Mexico ... 2 v

... vestiduras blancas , como sobrepellices , i algunas cerradas por delante , los braços defuera , con fluecos de algoden en las orillas . Unos llevaban figuras de ídolos en las manos , otros sahumerios ; otros tocaban cornetas ...

Embracing History's Lessons: What Every College Graduate Should Know

... inspire and instill a feeling of cohesiveness and unity needed for cooperation and high achievement . In short ... optimize opportunities . Both require the skills of a statesmen : courage , equanimity , moderation , loyalty ...

A General History of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time: Including All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, Their Revolution, Forms of Government, Laws, Religions, Customs and Manners...together with Their Chronology, Antquities, Public Buildings, and Curiosities of Nature and Art

... Athens to demand reparation for the public injuries . Ac- of wrongs cording ... Athens on pain of death , fhould be revoked ; and that the Grecian states , which ... 30,000 gods ; for he taught , that one infinite felf moving mind had ...

Since 1500, Chapters 15-30: The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History

The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History Bulliet, Richard W. Bulliet ... 6th ed . ( 1999 ) . See also Daniel Headrick , The Tentacles of Progress ... chapter . A very readable multicultural and gendered perspective is provided by ...

History of Mankind: The foundations of the modern world [1300-1775], by L. Gottschalk, L. C. MacKinney and E. H. Pritchard. 2 v

... Aristotelian cosmography and astronomy . Although not essential to the ... transmitted to the West by the twelfth - century Spanish Muslim Al - Bitruji ... were themselves perfect and unchangeable , and of imperfect motion of the ...

History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development

... Aristotelian cosmography and astronomy . Although not essential to the ... transmitted to the West by the twelfth - century Spanish Muslim Al - Bitruji ... were themselves perfect and unchangeable , and of imperfect motion of the ...

Manual de Historia Universal

Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois. se disparaba desde los muros contra los buques enemigos . El agua no conse- guía ... búlgaros y los eslavos de Macedonia y Tesalia , que fueron sometidos . De excepcional importancia fué también la labor de ...

Nations of the World: Dickson, W. G. Japan

... swordless man " in Yedo pays rent for his ground , house and shop . The ... Samurai " ( Ch . Sz ) , which may be translated " an officer and a gentleman ... Samurai class may be said to include the Koongays , the Daimios , the " Jiki sang ...

The Nations of the World: Japan

... swordless man " in Yedo pays rent for his ground , house and shop . The ... Samurai " ( Ch . Sz ) , which may be translated " an officer and a gentleman ... Samurai class may be said to include the Koongays , the Daimios , the " Jiki sang ...

Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition, and Race Development of the Greater Divisions of Mankind, and Also of the Principal Events in the Evolution and Progress of Nations from the Beginnings of the Civilized Life to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

... NORMANS . Origin and evolution of the Norman race . - Con- quest of Neustria ... contribution of Norman French to English speech . -Revival and reconquest by the ... Angles and the Saxons . - Expeditions of Hengist and Horsa into Britain ...

The Decline of Empires

... Muta- zilah movement flourished under al - Mamur ( 813-833 ) , but was aban- doned in favor of a rigid orthodoxy by al - Mutawakkil in 848. In short , a religious leader who felt strongly about some problem of doctrine or morals could ...

The Modern Part of an Universal History,: From the Earliest Account of Time

... defired the protection of the Spaniards . Cortez was now in- formed that the ... project . He was alfo informed that the fame Caminatzin , who had be- fore ... 2 Mexicans He is in great danger . Mexicans of a place The Hiftory of ...

Library of Universal History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time; Embracing a General Survey of the Progress of Mankind in National and Social Life, Civil Government, Religion, Literature, Science and Art

... French service resigned their commands and joined their countrymen . Even the noble - hearted Du Guesclin , who was devotedly attached to King Charles the Wise , resigned his office and retired from court . The king implored the ...

History of the World from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

... Romans might hope to annalists of Rome , both Greek and Roman , make good a ... history posterior to the great even as then understood ; the Romans ... history , were they and lasted without intermission for twentybut endowed with ...

World History, Since 1500: The Age of Global Integration

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Library of Universal History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time; Embracing a General Survey of the Progress of Mankind in National and Social Life, Civil Government, Religion, Literature, Science and Art

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An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present; Compiled from Original Authors and Illustrated with Maps, Cuts, Notes, Chronological and Other Tables

... Rome by Numa , iv . 437 , d . By Cæfar , how , v . 170 , & feq . & ( R ) ... Total of them , 82. Courted by Cæfar , 114 , b . Two thousand profcribed by ... war against the Athenians , ii . 501 , & feq . Truce , 508 , paff . 512 , a Peace ...

An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time

... Tuscany to the Var , plundering and burning the cities , and among the reft ... count , was commif- fioned by Charlemagne to protect the coafts of Italy ... Tab . Chorog . col . 101 . Moors . Moors . For this purpose having fitted out a ...

The Modern Part of an Universal History: From the Earliest Account of Time

... Tuscany to the Var , plundering and burning the cities , and among the reft ... count , was commif . fioned by Charlemagne to protect the coafts of Italy ... Tab . Chorog . col . 101 . Moors . Moors . For this purpose having fitted out a ...

The History of Nations

Henry Cabot Lodge. Khomasbolos , mythical King of Baby- Kieft , William ( 1600-1647 ) ... Khufu Khephren : see Khafra Kheraskov , Michael ( 1733-1806 ) , a Russian ... grand prince withdraws from , 9 ; passes to the Lithuanians , 11 ; re ...

The Nations of the World: Mexico and the life of the conqueror Fernando Cortes

... vestiduras blancas , como sobrepellices , i algunas cerradas por delante , los braços defuera , con fluecos de algoden en las orillas . Unos llevaban figuras de ídolos en las manos , otros sahumerios ; otros tocaban cornetas ...

The Great Adventure

... Christmas Carol . Decca , # DL8010 . Adventures in Music , Grade VI . RCA , # LE1009 . A Visit to Switzerland ... Stanley Bowmar , FT3700 . Primitive Music of the World . Stanley Bowmar , FE4581 . Harmony . Stanley Bowmar , FT3604 ...

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