Xianfeng Emperor

Conquistadors were explorers of the Spanish Empire. From the 15th century to the 18th century conquistadors traveled across Europe to the Americas, Asia and much of Africa. They colonized much of the world for Europe in the 16th - 18th centuries. After Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492 and the first circumnavigation of the world by Juan Sebastian Elcano and Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, expeditions led by conquistadors in the 16th century established trading routes linking…

The fifth circle is where angry people are sent and they are forced to fight atop the river Styx. In the sixth circle people who have committed heresy, they are forced to burn in flaming tombs for eternity. Dante sees Pope Anastasius II and Roman Emperor Frederick II, along with other historical figures. The eighth circle of hell is for persons who have committed some sort of fraudulence; they are sorted into ten different trenches for each type of fraud committed. In order to pass through this…

Isabella I of Castile Isabella of Castile was a powerful queen who supported and funded Christopher Columbus’ many voyages and brought Castile’s crime rates to the lowest they had been in years. Isabella, daughter of Isabella of Portugal and John II of Castile was born on the 22nd of April, 1451. Sadly, her father died when she was three, leaving her half-brother, Henry IV as king (Historynet, 2016). At this time, Isabella was second in line for the throne, after her brother, Alfonso. Alfonso,…

peaceful farmers living peaceful lives”, and Winroth stated in a 2013 interview that, “the Vikings behaved the way early medieval people behaved” and although they were violent, it was “no more than anyone else at the time” (Winroth, 2013). For example, Emperor Charlemagne relied on campaigns for funds to run the Frankish empire, and these campaigns were very bloody, and not even a source as biased as the Royal Frankish annals pretends otherwise. In 774 AD, Charlemagne entered Saxony, “with…

both rulers had striking similarities that had a great influence on how they rose to power, led and how their subjects regarded them. First, their beauty contributed to their rise in power in both cases. For example, Wu served as a concubine for Emperors from the young age of 14 (Tian & Yang, 1997). The cultural depictions of the time also present Cleopatra as a female ruler who used charms to influence powerful men in Europe (Wassynger, 1996).…

to identify that the diplomatic situation did not help his case in getting an annulment and was most certainly a hindrance. The diplomatic status was of great concern to Henry because at this time the Pope was under the influence of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Henry would require the Pope to allow his marriage to be annulled but due to the circumstances Charles would have a large input into the decision. Henry was greatly in love with Anne Boleyn by this time and desperately wanted to get…

The Terracotta warriors were soldiers made by laborers for the emperor Qin Shi Huang. The laborers started building them when he was thirteen years old. The warriors were made to protect him from the afterlife. Villagers that were digging wells discovered them in 1974. When they were digging they first found hands and legs, and told more people, they kept digging and found statues, they had they had dug over seven feet they found blue brick. They were made from terracotta or yellow earth…

The Terracotta Warriors In 210 BCE during the Early Chinese Art period the Great Army of the First Emperor Qin was unearthed by local peasants that were just digging around. The dirt that covered the warriors had blended in with all the other dirt around it so its discovery was very unexpected, like any other discovery. What was discovered was nothing short of amazing and astonishing. Under the surface there was 3 large vaults or catacombs that contained 8 000 painted terracotta soldiers…

Formation of an Empire Through Power and Greed Joshua Atler 9/27/14 Modern World History Honors Mr. Hardy Ferdinand II was born in 1452 as the son of John II of Aragon. In 1468, he became the king of Sicily, an island near Italy. Before he became the king of Aragon, he married Isabella I in 1469. She was the future queen of Castile, and Ferdinand was the future king of Aragon. In 1474, Isabella inherited the throne of Castile. John II died in 1479, and Ferdinand II then rose to the throne…

Marie-Joseph Angélique was a slave in the 1700s in the settlement of Montréal in New France. She was born in Madeira, Portugal and sold to work as a slave in New France at age 20. At age 29, in 1734 she was accused of starting a fire that burned down a hospital and 45 houses in Montréal. The question is, was Angélique really guilty of starting the fire, or was she innocent? When the information available is weighed, Angélique was innocent in the standards of today’s justice, since her…