Records of the Grand Historian

The first element is distinguishing the prominent feature of the room, such as the sound booth would be to record the music as perfect as possible canceling all outside noise, while a large-scale concert hall factors such as volume level and background noise become issues. Some less than extraordinary performance halls recently can be simply solved with just…

The philosophy of legalism eventually became embedded into the society, however modern historian Xun Zhou claimed that he was “constantly in fear of how he couldn’t control this vast new territory with so many cultures and different groups of people”. It lead to his actions of the infamous “Book Burn” and the “Burial of Scholars”, which took…

dispute over a stolen mare between Salem native and grand juror Henry Bartholomew and his brother, John Towne, in 1660. Isaac and his other brother Francis Nurse, husband of Rebecca Nurse, defended John Towne against testimonies by Salem villagers such as John Putnam. No criminal or civil charges were filed against the Easty family, who kept an indentured servant in 1658 and lived in good economic and social standing among the people of Topsfield. No records of any large financial debts were…

The reign of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, in the third century BCE is known for its unprecedented unity of Chinese lands and for the establishment of the Chinese imperial system. While the 221 BCE unification of the Warring States into a single Chinese state may seem like the natural progression of events in hindsight, it and the subsequent unity in the Qin dynasty was not an inevitable outcome and required active effort to accomplish. Qin Shi Huangdi had to take many measures beyond…

An assassin or a hero It is always about the perspective, the way people look at the matter defines how people judge the character involved under every circumstance. One character in question will be judged differently from the opposite perspective of people, one side says an assassin and the other says a hero. Some stories tell the sacrifices made by determining individuals in history to pursue a cause, although they must surrender their life to the hands of death. Nevertheless, the…

He built grand monuments and buildings even more superior than his father’s. In this way he exhausted the royal wealth even more. He mainly expanded Susa and Persepolis, but also built grand palaces for himself and even one commissioned for his father. Due to this exhaust of wealth, Xerxes was forced to heavily tax his subjects, who were not at all…

the first total war, meaning it not only inflicted on soldiers, but civilians, land, and cities. This impacted the women in many different ways. There were women who were soldiers, spies, nurses, and ones who stayed on the home front. Historians often say that America's Civil War pitted brother against brother. But what many people do not know is that, on occasion, it also involved sisters (Nuwer,2014).Even though women weren’t legally allowed to fight in the civil war. Many women…

held high positions in their government and were often present at meetings between Europeans and the Choctaw nation. Despite this fact, the contributions women made at these council meetings went relatively unrecorded by Europeans. There are a few records indicating that women were present and contributed to the dialogue, but the full extent women most likely played in these important interaction is left unrecorded. After years of European involvement and colonization of the Choctaw tribe, the…

Every single one of these projects required intensive labor, and most of that labor came from us, the peasants. This policy extracted great animosity from us, especially since many died as a result of these rigorous efforts to complete the projects. Since the projects were so costly, the Mongols resorted to deliberate inflation of currency to cover the costs. These financial problems lead to the undermining of the economy, which the Mongols could not maintain any longer. To add on to this…

Urbanization and industry transformed Midwest from agricultural to urbanized economies with trading hubs in cities like Chicago. This transformation from rural to urban sparked the Great Migration, a mass movement of African Americans from the South to industrialized cities in the North. This influx of African American communities challenged the existing racial constructs in the metropolis and gave rise to new socially constructed identities and means of self-expression. Davarian L. Baldwin…