Carolingian Empire

Melanie Shane Professor O’Connor GNHU282-09 September 21, 2017 Unit One Test 1. Discuss how Rome’s geography and its physical location in Italy and in the Mediterranean world was conducive to power and growth. Italy is around 100,000 square miles that extends from the Northern European coast of the Mediterranean Sea, to the south valley of Po. Rome is surrounded by groups of hills that have a view overlooking the Tiber River. The hills and valleys that overlook the Tiber river, were previously…

The word “freedom” is relative to the perspective of the individual who endures it. As opposition to the British crown grew amongst the American colonists, the need for a formal decree asserting their separation was imperative. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and after revisions from his fellow peers, Congress adopted the document in the same year on July 4th in Philadelphia. While much of the document elaborates on concepts such as indpendence and civil…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court explores the drastic differences that separate two eras thirteen centuries apart. Amongst these distinctions are the values and ideals held by the people of these different times. This great disparity is addressed by the story’s narrator, Hank Morgan. Morgan, who holds the same views as author Mark Twain, sets out to challenge 6th century values with his American ideals of the 19th century. A prideful, practical, and intelligent man, Hank Morgan…

The Battle of Aegospotami occurred in 405 BC and was the battle that ended the Peloponnesian War. The Battle of the Arginusae Islands had happened a year before and had been a major Athenian victory. After the battle, six of the eight Athenian generals had been executed and the others had gone into exile. Conon, Adeimantus, and Philocles replaced them. The Spartans also required a new leader because their previous commander had been killed in the Battle of the Arginusae Islands. Lysander was a…

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko tells the story of a Native American whom fought in World War Two for the United States of America and his return to America after being released from a Japanese prisoner of war camp. To live in America as a Native American during WWII, would have many hardships. Silko shows the struggle of integration of Western culture on Native American society. In many ways Tayo and others of the Native American culture due to differences in religion, history and culture.…

“Pleasures and Excess in the Roman Empire” by Paul Veyne and “Slums, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Roman World” by Alexis Scobie, we learn about the history of how the Roman society worked as well as gain insight through the theories created in what could have possibly been going on in the everyday life of Roman citizens. We get to delve in the social scales of the people including how/ where they lived and what they were capable of achieving while building up their empire. Historian Paul…

Virginia vs. Massachusetts The development of Virginia and Massachusetts has many similarities but also many differences. The two colonies have similar problems when trying to develop their towns but had different reasons for why they started them to begin with. while both had different driving forces, they both ultimately wanted the same thing, to form a successful new town. Though out the next paragraphs I will discuss these differences and similarities, as well as why I think Massachusetts…

that governed the world in harmony. (103) Gupta Empire- The Gupta Dynasty, founded in 320 CE by Chandra Gupta, arose in the Ganges. The Gupta Dynasty had a state that layed in Magadha, known for wealth and power in the Ganges Valley. The Gupta Empire established alliances throughout the continent in order to maintain their power and land. The people of the dynasty were overcome by White Huns from Asia which lead to the dynasty’s decline. The empire eventually fell around 550 CE. (119)…

The battle at Midway island, approximately half the distance between Asia and the United States, in June of 1942 was one of the most significant battles that the American military would fight during the course of World War II, and author Craig Symonds reports the details in his book, The Battle at Midway. Despite many accounts of this battle, Symonds offers a unique and incredibly researched narrative that brings his work into its own interpretation, separate from others. Symonds description of…

The American Revolution was a time of change in the colonies. People were fighting for their independence, and now historians such as Barbara Clark Smith, Gordon Wood, and T.H. Breen argue if this was radical. Smith said it was not, due to the lack of attention to the oppressed. Wood disagreed, and said that the legacy of the Revolution is what made it radical. In Breen’s essay, “Boycotts Made the Revolution Radical,” he states how the Revolution was radical by bringing together many colonists…