3rd millennium

The complexity of legal rights for women living in England begins with the rise of Queen Mary I in 1553, and continues to Margaret Thatcher’s years in office as England’s first female Prime Minister in 1979, which was a huge success. People inhabited in England during the early 16th century had been under the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church for generations. Women during this period were seen with little to no importance. King Henry VIII and his first wife Katherine of Aragon…

In Society today they’re many problems that people will go through day in and day out without full grasp of it. Poverty and Disease is an example of something our society will continue to struggle with. These type of issues can be hard to take on in life, yet we are constantly reminded of these problems every day. No one takes full control to solve these issues to have a cure or to reduce the problem more than is expected. In addition, another major problem in today’s society is women’s rights.…

week’s assignment the thing that I found the most interesting was learning about the history of race. I am a history buff and love learning about it, which is why I received my bachelor’s in History. The things I focused on the most from this week’s assignment was the history of race that we study on the PBS website, I did some further research into and found some interesting articles to further my knowledge. I believe there is so much that plays a role in race, from the first thought of race to…

The axiom that trade leads to peace seems logical. Trade is always profitable (for at least one partner), and it would be counter-productive to do anything that would disrupt the relationship through violence. However, people are seldom logical and trade is often anything but peaceful. History offers us ample evidence of trading practices that definitely did not lead to peace. For example, trade was achieved through a coerced partnership. Great powers forced lesser regions in to trade…

(1 - 1750) Buddhism originated in N. India, and is traced back to Siddhartha Guatama’s search for an antidote to end suffering in the 5th century BCE. Early Buddhism was spread slowly along the trade routes by Buddhist merchants and monks. In the 3rd century CE, Ashoka, a ruler of the Mauryan Empire, converted to Buddhism. He did not forcefully convert his people, but he sent missionaries to East Asia and left edicts throughout the empire. Buddhism eventually made it’s way into places like…

CHAPTER -1 INTRODUCTION Women during sixteen, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were not allowed to express their views. Women tried to speak and this became a major issue which gave attention to women, their modern thoughts at the end of the 18th century they were allowed to speak out against injustices. Though modern feminism was not there at that time but many women show their interest and tried to face the problems by using many interesting ideas and creative methods. In other words, we…

The kingdoms of central Java in the classical and early modern periods are an excellent case study of the general transition to a galactic polity system in Southeast Asia. Although these powerful polities ruled their areas from 1500 to 1800, the roots of these societies can be found in the beginning of the classical period in the 9th century. In Java, an early agrarian Hindu-Buddhist society gave way to the rise of the Kingdom of Majapahit, and later, the Kingdom of Mataram. Through the…

Globalization Globalization occurs as one of the most novel phenomena that have taken the world by a storm. While much has been hypothesized regarding this phenomenon, it is important to note that there exits distinct factors that drive it. Since the sixteenth century to the present, there are various key factors identified as the key drivers of globalization. Transportation is one of the major factors that have and continue to drive globalization from the sixteenth century to the present. In…

The Old Jewish Prague is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. You can see gravestones from various historical periods there: long black Gothic ones, marble stones from the 16 th century, typical Renaissance decoration, mighty Baroque gravestones, and some of the Rococo ones. This cemetery was founded in the April 23, 1439 and is the oldest existing graveyard from the 15th century. This Jewish element has been the foundation of the medieval Prague and has a unique look to it since the…

Dwight Macdonald has discussed the difference between reading and skimming a text in Reading and Thought. He uses examples such as functional curiosity relating to the growth of educated people to explain how the way we read affects our thinking. Macdonald explains that the more we read from the media, the more irrelevant information we gain. He uses the comparison of people reading in the sixteenth century and the nineteenth century and found that the average educated person back then took…