American Empire

advantage that aided in the selection of Africans as a source of slavery was solely based on their inability to blend in due to their skin color. Their status as slaves and their skin color then lead to the discrimination of the African people in the American and Caribbean plantations. As they were deemed ‘disposable,’ the development of an inferiority complex was then inevitable especially with the sweet-toothed Westerners who only viewed their labor as tools to maximize their profits rather…

“Pax Cahokiana” was the peak of the Native American society of Cahokia. It arose from immigration, was maintained by military force among other things, and fails in an atmosphere of militarization and ethnic tension. “Pax Cahokiana” is a play on the phrase “Pax Romana.” “Pax Romana” was the era in which the Roman Empire reached its peak and was an era of peace. Pauketat says, Cahokia was “as large in its day as London.” Cahokia began as a humble village located in the Mississippi River…

most notable being the Masi. These people lived in relative peace until the Romans came over the mountains and conquered the region in the 3rd Century BC. The Abruzzi people were considered Romans and part of the Roman Empire until the decline of the Empire. The weakness of the empire gave the Lombards access to the previously protected region of Abruzzo. The Lombard people conquered the region and two tribes eagerly fought for centuries for control. This changed in the 13th century when the…

According to Suetonius, a Roman leader’s good and bad qualities included their military successes, relations with the citizens of Rome, mental stability, and private relationships. The military campaigns of the Caesars made Rome one of the largest empires of the ancient world. Suetonius conveys through his writings that being a good military leader and a good Caesar…

can be entertained. He also, after the Games when Katniss and Peeta won the 74th Hunger Games, he interviewed Peeta and manipulated his replies by showing what the audience would like to hear. Julius Caesar would do the same actions with the Roman Empire, as he manipulated the triumvirate of Pompey, Crassus, and himself in order to become dictator. When Julius Caesar gave speeches, he could convince almost anyone to do what he wants them to do. A prime example of this is Marcus Aurelius, who…

principles institutions like American government and the American Church were founded on and what they had become through scathing irony, passionate ranting and logic, Douglass addresses the social injustice of slavery. He mocks the Fourth of July holiday and argues that the American ideals of freedom, equality and justice have not been bestowed on the public as the founding fathers had promised. “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July” is a challenge that dares Americans to strive to make the…

introduced to America through British colonization in the early 17th century. It also spread to many other parts of the world because of the strength of the British empire. Over the years, English spoken in the United States and in Britain started diverging from each other in various aspects. This led to a new dialects in the form of American English. The origins of English in India The British first arrived in India in the early 1600s and soon established trading posts in a number of cities…

The conflict in Kurdistan has a very long history and is very complicated. The Kurdish people are at a crossroads. With the destabilization in Iraq and Syria, Kurdish forces are seizing the opportunity to establish a nation-state. The Kurds have been oppressed and tossed around for the past century and are now in a position to create a sovereign state. Pre world war 1, the Kurds lived rather peacefully under the Ottoman Turks. The Ottomans only acted violently against the Kurds when there were…

gold. Cortés compelled Moctezuma to give his land and treasure to the Spanish, but in the meantime another Spanish fleet had come to challenge Cortés. After the new group of Spaniards landed, a fight between the Spanish, Aztecs, and some Native Americans broke out killing more than half the Spanish as well as Moctezuma. In 1521, Cortés captured and destroyed Tenochitilán and built in its remains Mexico…

attention to detail. Often hailed as one of the best examples of the classical style, Canova’s sculpture helped pave the way for Neoclassical sculpture as a whole. Influenced by his hometown of Venice and the public negative sentiment towards the Ottoman Empire, the choice of the Greek myth was deliberate, displaying both the social trends of the time as a classical allusion alongside a political statement on the condition of Crete. Born in Rome, the Neoclassical style would evolve as it spread…