History of Ethiopia

The Classificatory-Historical period took place from 1914-1960 and marked a time concerned with chronology and dating. Universities and other research institutions emphasized time as the primary tool of classifying North American cultures. During this time period it was thought that cultures could be well understood based on the chronological ordering of events. An important technique developed during this time was stratigraphic excavation, which was the differentiation and examination of…

Herodotus of Halicarnassus represents his work Histories not as the history in the understanding of a modern reader, pure historical facts and events, but as a rich collection of vivid narratives and description about wars between Greeks and barbarians so that inspiring stories would not be forgotten in the days of yore. The name of this book, The Histories, derives from Greek word, hisroiē, meaning investigation and inquiry. For Herodotus, he investigates many local oral stories and tales from…

Art History 1 Singh, Satendra Satyam Writing Assignment 1, Topic 1 Looking through the history of depiction of human figure yields several similarities and differences in the development of depicting the human form throughout the art represented from the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Aegean, and Greek cultures. Humans throughout the ages have been depicted time and time again; these representations share several similarities and differences. The people of the Paleolithic Ages survived through a…

History 30: Is it Actually Important I think this class benefits students in a ton of ways. We are the society’s future and I think it’s important to know Canada’s successes and failures so we know what to do and what not to do. My generation and generations to follow need to know the past of Canada so the future can be even better. I think it’s important to know what to do and what not to do when it comes to approaching people who are different then us. We need the knowledge of the Beothuk so…

The Human Record contains various sources of global history. Chapter 8 of this book covers a few topics from this history. One individual named Treitschke explains his views on monarchy and democracy. There were changes that occurred in Europe that led to an explanation of his views on human progress and war. The other individual mentioned in this chapter was Jules Ferry. He had strong views on the hierarchy of different races as well as the French colonies. Racism, Militarism, and the New…

The similarities between Athenian and American Democracy Once a writer said, “History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler”(Glassie). History is a source of information that people can look up to for the modern time. History can also help to solve problems which would not be possible without it. Moreover, if people look into history there were society which created law and values that lead to the modern society. For…

With this same philosophical idea proposed by George Santayana, the study of our nation’s history and foreign policy efforts should be used as a lesson to guide any future behavior on how the United States should deal with the threat ISIS presents because of the clear thread that exists between the past and present. The same gap of communication and lack of understanding of different cultures, values and histories that brought destruction and instability during the Philippines-American War and…

life that the commoners experienced on the eve of the Revolution. Moreover, Gross realized that “To recover the history of common people required new methods to exploit sources beyond the letters, journals, memoirs, essays, and sermons produced exclusively by “the most affluent and educated class of people (p. ix-x).” As mentioned in the preceding quote, it is far easier to uncover history about the lives of the opulent, because they have both the time and the resources unwittingly develop…

Tour Speech Today I am going to tell you about the Betsy Ross House. The first American flag in history was made here. The building is 250 years old. It is a “bandbox” style house. It has one room per floor and a winding staircase leading from the cellar of the building to the upper levels. The house has a large window on the first floor which is great for displaying merchandise, and over the years the house was used as a home for shopkeepers and artisans. This happened for over 150 years.…

Studying past presidencies through psychological analysis takes an angle we have not yet seen in so far. Rather than studying the big picture of history or on the history of a president’s constitutional powers, the psychological approach takes an individual, case-by-case approach to evaluate each president. For example, in Wayne’s book we saw how Obama’s personal life and campaign strategy shaped who he was as President of the United States. In class we reviewed other past presidents as well and…