1. Medieval Europe
The renaissance was a time of improvement where society wanted to move beyond the accomplishments of the past. The people of the time looked at the magnificent works of the Romans. Works that went unsurpassed for centuries included the Roman aqueducts, the intricately designed roads and fortificati...
The French and the English came late in the game compared to Spain. From the beginning they had different goals in mind. They where in competing with each other from the start. The English, Supported by the Virginia company of London hoped to find furs but at the same time wanted to set up perman...
Beowulf, one of the most translated and reproduced epics of all time is literature with historical background. It tells us about the way Germanic tribes of Scandinavia thought about their society. The Scandinavian decent tribes depicted in the epic poem, Beowulf, extend from about 450 to 1066. Th...
Skinheads, just as many other social movements, have through the years come to be generally identified with neo-nazi politics, uncontrolled violence and football hooligans. Through this paper I"ll explore the origins of the skinhead cult, ultimately indicating that skinheads had originally little po...
Skinheads, just as many other social movements, have through the years come to be generally identified with neo-nazi politics, uncontrolled violence and football hooligans. Through this paper I"ll explore the origins of the skinhead cult, ultimately indicating that skinheads had originally little po...
Many people had different views towards the Middle Passage. The different groups were the Africans, merchants, and the European society in general. The Middle Passage referred to the second leg of the triangular trade, in which Africans were sent to the Americas to work as slaves. This is all becaus...
The Great War of 1914 also known as World War 1 was one of the bloodiest wars in history that killed millions of people and happened for many reasons, some of the reasons haven't even been found. The spark that triggered the war was the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie on June 24, 1914 by the hands of Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand in Serbia (Background Essay), but that wasn't one of the deeper causes of WWI. There were four underlying causes of WWI; the Alliance System, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Militarism. Out of the fo...
In the eighth century, a new Muslim kingdom was established by the Umayyad in Spain. Cordoba, the capital city of the kingdom, became the centre of intellectual life. In this flourishing time, Muslims were known for their love of knowledge and books. Then during the Abbasid era, House of Wisdom was ...
Eastern Europe is a unique region in terms of language. Slavic languages are very similar in a number of ways – the alphabet, grammar and vocabulary are close to identical when comparing, for example, Ukrainian, Russian and Belarus languages. Borders separating the Slavic world are not exactly bou...
British ambivalent relationship with the rest of Europe from a historical and cultural perspective. Take a look around. You are standing in the middle of a village somewhere around 100 AD. You are outside, in the open air, somewhere afar you see Hadrian's Wall. You are standing on the road made of p...
By the time the church confronted the issue of education on an institutional level, several important events had already occurred: The Church had transferred from Jewish to Gentile soil, The standard of orthodoxy was moving in a more theological direction, The Judaic roots of Christianity were radically de-emphasized as the Gospel message was universalized, The Biblical wisdom tradition was discarded in exchange for Greek education, Wisdom was redefined in classical terms, As the Church became more and more Gentile, less and less Judaic, an education system arose. ...