Early modern Europe

The ability and power of Africa was unknown. No country knew of this “dark” continent, the people who occupied it, and the resources that could be obtained. Thus, the commencement of exploration into Africa. The novels Tools of Empire by Daniel R. Headrick and King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild, exhibit the effects of explorations in Africa. These two novels portray the ground work in which Africa was established and maintained. Some common themes among these novels are African colonization…

d active until the early 20th century (1905 or arguably 1910). After a life span of 25 years, Art Nouveau went out of style, as it was succeeded by Art Deco as well as suffered from the social shift caused by World War I. If Art Nouveau was forgotten, how important must it have been? Art Nouveau was immensely important since it was more than an art style. It was a lifestyle of its own. During those 25 years of existence, it was omnipresent. From graphic design, jewelry, architecture, product…

1.3 billion, 1.2 billion, 186 million. The respective populations of China, Qin Zhang’s country, India, Abdul Hussein’s country and Nigeria, my country. China has a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) output of $19.7 trillion and India has a GDP output of $7.9 trillion . These numbers indicate that these two countries have the strongest economies in Asia while Nigeria with a GDP output of $1 trillion holds the title of the strongest economy from the African continent. This zoomed out view allows us…

INTRODUCTION • The renaissance took place during the 1300s and into the 1650s in Europe. During this time period, discovery and curiosity drove humanity to the modern world and out of the dark ages. The renaissance, also known as rebirth • Spirit of Adventure and curiosity led people to • Period of enlightenment and knowledge • Main focus was on humanism__define • Art focus was on realism and^^HUMANISM • The nineteenth century invented the term "humanism." But humanism is based on three…

In order to truly understand human society as it exists today, it is first necessary to be able to distinguish between all of the variables that culminated to yield the present. For, if even one condition was to vacillate, the whole outcome of human development could have been drastically different. The man undertaking the arduous task of trying to classify and decipher human history is Jared Diamond, who, through his work, Guns, Germs, and Steel, is able to show just how interconnected the…

The articles being discussed, are about the comparisons between two authors. The first author is Thayne R. Ford, and his article is called Stranger in a Foreign Land: Jose de Acosta's Scientific Realizations in Sixteenth-Century Peru, which is about a Jesuit, named Father Jose de Acosta, (1540-1600) who during his life time published many scientific analysis, and descriptions of the new world. The second article is from Karl W. Butzer, who was a German American geographer, and archeologist.…

there. Back then when it was just a small fishing village, it was called Lutetia Parisiorum. Paris then under the Romans, the little town then spread onto the left bank and then acquired good importance to many later emperors. Many times in Paris’s early years, it was very threatened…

After Columbus’s opening of the New World for European with his 1492 voyage, it was not long until more Europeans came to this unexplored world. One such explorer was Hernan Cortez of Spain who came into contact with the Aztec Empire. Through the work of The Broken Spears, edited by Miguel León-Portilla, a relationship of conflict from a lack of understanding and misinterpreting of the others intentions was seen between the Mexica and Spanish empires as the Mexica saw the Spanish as gods, and…

Planner and Architect. He had a great influences on the development of the urban construction , regulation on Europe. Sitte work demonstrates his understand of what he considered important in designing and how the language of a building should be greatly influed by the space in which to observe the building as they were intended to be apprepicated. His set rules to a successful modern planning always ensured that you enclose the public space in such a way as to restrict view out so the the…

classification of races. “ Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, racist, thinkers sought to identify racial groups on the basis of skin color, bone structure, nose shape, cranial capability, and other physical characteristics” ( Bentley and Ziegler). As a way to defend themselves from the public, racist scientists stated that there’s a great barrier between skin color and other physical differences from the Europeans. At the time, Europe was by far the most successful and…