History of Europe

came at a slower pace and those who explored the realms of the unknown had to convince everyone else that their discovery meant something. Those who were successful in their efforts were celebrated and would forever have a major spot in the world’s history. Amerigo Vespucci was a man of great confidence and had a certain desire for escapades. He went on many journeys across the world, discovering new lands while jotting down the things he dealt with…

World War I is considered one of the most deadliest war in history. It happened between 1914 to 1918 and sometimes is known as the Great war. It was fought in Europe, but many countries around the world was involved. The United States joined the war on April 6, 1917, due to “Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare (Hickman,1).” As result from the bloody war, the countries suffered from the lost of numerous casualties. Therefore the countries wanted to blame someone. When the…

violent and brutal explorations of America is lost. Christopher Columbus was born the son of a Merchant in Genoa Italy in 1451. For all his life he grew up with a love for the sea. During the 15th century, it was almost impossible to get to Asia from Europe, but Columbus had a plan to sail around the continent of Africa to reach India, a land full of riches. After finding a sponsor from Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, Columbus set sail and reached land. However, instead of reaching…

golden revolution started to emerge. According to Gray Boyce, “Even at its worst it performed the function of guarding… but even more it was creative and inventive, and transmitted to later ages great riches of its own.” (Boyce 69). At this time, Europe had begun to preserve the old culture as it carried on with developing a fresh and unique culture at the same time. Boyce’s statement can be confirmed by the various preservations carried out by the church such as teachings and doctrines that…

It is well known that Adolf Hitler is a master of persuasion and in his Reichstag speech of December 11, 1941, he shows why. In this speech he gives reasons for the outbreak of war in September 1939, explains why he decided to attack the Soviet Union in June 1941, and announces that Germany was now in a war against the United States. Throughout this speech, he was able to maintain an air of righteousness while successfully manipulating his people into fighting for him. To accomplish this task,…

The Industrial Revolution was one the most impactful periods in human history. Many of its inventions and societal changes still have an effect today. Population growth, emigration into cities and to countries, cotton, iron, and improved working conditions are examples of what changed the world, and began the mold of our modern society. The questions that I will answer are how did the Industrial Revolution Change European society, and how it made life better for some and worse for others. One…

settlements in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Vikings were fierce barbarian-like men. They were very skilled fighters, merchants, farmers, and craftsmen. The year of 789 a.d. marked the beginning of the Viking age, or “terror of Europe.” Vikings had started attacking Northern Europe. In 793 a.d., they raided and looted a monastery on the island of Lindisfarne, an island off the coast of England. The raid was recorded by an escaping monk, and has the picture of angry men killing the monks.…

behaviours and understand the conditions that supported or limited these laws (Barrett 1967; Slife and Williams 1995; Uba 2002). These new scientific ways of thinking drove the Processual movement beyond the diffusionist interpretations of culture-history to empirical methods of reconstructing past human behaviour and the environments that past cultures were living…

critical importance that period. The crisis refers to the medieval history and the ending of the Benedictine century in Western Europe between the future of religion, civilization and culture. The crisis process came with several important scholars that had great methods. These great’s names were Sackur, Hauck, Hallinger, and Knowles; it was known at this period that these four were important role models in the medieval history. St. Benedict created a religious…

in at exactly the right time in history; it was 1989, and the world was on the cusp of a great economic revolution and transition not unlike that of the 13th century on which she focuses her book. Primarily, she aimed to prove that a Eurocentric world system was not a permanent fixture since the Fall of Rome, and “that there was no inherent historical necessity that shifted the [world economic] system to favour the West of the East”. She did this in studying Europe, the Middle East, and Asia,…