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Political Reforms Greek States
1,497 wordsThe internal reforms that took place under Philip, strengthened Macedonia and enabled him to conquer the Greek states. Philip used the League of Corinth to consolidate and maintain his power through terms of peace. To test the validity of this hypothesis we must look at three things: The major reforms in Macedonia under Philip How Philip went about conquering the Greek states The policies and terms under which the League of Corinth operated Following the death of Perdiccas, Philip came to the th...
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Alexander The Great Persian Empire
1,246 wordsAlexander the Great in Conquest of Gaugemel In the early summer of 331, Alexander the Great took his whole army northeast through Syria, reaching Euphrates, not earlier than July 10. Darius, the great king of the Persian empire, knew very well that Babylon itself was Alexander's next objective. Babylon, the great city on the Lower Euphrates, was the economic center of the empire. Alexander the Great struck hard, fast, and with maximum economy. It was therefore that he would come straight down th...
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Julius Caesar Roman Army
1,762 wordsThe Roman Empire is considered by many as the basis of modern civilization. Today we use a form of government that was started by them long before people even knew that the Earth was round. Their reign of power began around 509 BC with the overthrow of the Etruscan dynasty till 1453 with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. Their land, at its peak, contained such areas as Britain, Spain, Gaul, Mauretania, Egypt, Judea, Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Dacia, Illyria, Macedonia, Greece, Corsica, ...
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Peach Orchard Cemetery Ridge
1,135 wordsDriving through Gettysburg people see statues and marking at different sites, if youre do not know much history you would still know that these markings are a symbols of fallen soldiers. These soldiers never really needed to die but the North and South could not work out their differences peacefully which caused a great war in U. S. history, The Civil War. One of the biggest battles fought during the Civil war took place in the small city of Gettysburg. The battle of Gettysburg was the biggest a...
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Alexander The Great Persian Empire
1,437 words... Persian provinces. After two years he reached and subdued Bactria and Sogdiana; he now controlled all that belonged to Darius. As the campaign of Persia was ending, Alexander s plan expanded. Originally his purpose had been simply to destroy the Persian army. He had decided to take over the whole Persian empire, and he went on to achieve this without losing a single battle. If Alexander thought of the Persian empire at all, he thought of it simply as a source of wealth. However, as he took o...
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A Summarization Of The American Civil War
1,485 words... 25 October 2003 < web >. ~Told me about the battle on the Mississippi: Meanwhile, on April 6, 1862, the largest battle on the North American continent up to that time was being fought near a unassuming West Tennessee Methodist meeting house called Shiloh Church. Grant's Army of the Tennessee was camped near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River ~Gave me the name of G. Buell: He was awaiting the arrival of General Buell's Army of the Ohio ~Told me the numbers of men and of casualties: Gran...
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Hit And Run First Major
1,362 wordsOn June 26, 1187, the Muslim Sultan Saladin crossed the river Jordan with 20, 000 of his followers an army consisting of roughly 12, 000 light horsemen and a number of footmen to a location south of the Sea of Galilee where he and his men encamped. They had been ravaging the nearby countryside in hopes of provoking a Christian attack, but had been unsuccessful. The Frankish Christians led by King Guy in Jerusalem had also mobilized their own army and camped at the spring at Saffuriyah. Marshall ...
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Fall Of Rome The Military Role
1,848 wordsH 2 >The Militarys Role in the Beginning of the End of Rome The fall of Rome occurred over many centuries and was caused by several factors including military decay, barbarian invasions, and the failure of the government to respond to these problems. While these problems existed to a greater of lesser degree, since the end of the 2 nd century, their effects were accelerated by the reforms of the emperors Constantine and Diocletian. These reforms changed Roman life as well as the face of t...
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Raided Curonian Lands Masovian Duke Boleslas Lithuania
1,420 words... also made peace with Tautvilas, who later took control of Plots, and served as a subordinate of Mindaugas. In January 1256 the Samogitians, under the leadership of Duke Alminas, entered into an active battle with the Livonian Crusaders, and raided Curonian lands, then under Livonian rule. The Samogitians negotiated a 2 -year cease-fire with the Crusaders in the spring of 1257, following successful battles. 1259 marked the end of the negotiated cease-fire, and the battles between the Samogiti...
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Robert E Lee Parke Custis
1,826 wordsIntroduction Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the life of Lee and begins with a detailed account of his family history and his birth, through his college years, military experience and his work in later life to his death...
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Washington D C Battle Of Gettysburg
838 wordsSince the battle of the First Bull Run two years elapsed before the decisive battle of Gettysburg. Many battles were fought during this period. They were Shiloh, Seven Pines, The Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Stones River, and Chancellorsville. In theses battles the outcome was either indecisive or a victory for the South. After these major battles, Lee decided to move his army north into Pennsylvania with the thought of encircling Washington. This danger was clear to th...
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Nomadic Tribes Han Dynasty
1,463 wordsThe greatest East-West trade route, The Silk Road, was named so by the German scholar Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen in the middle of the 19 th century. Later on it became the information super highway of its age, serving to trade not only goods but also knowledge and ideas between Western and Eastern civilizations. 1. The Silk Road was founded in the second century BC for military and political purpose instead of for trade. A court official named Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions by Ha...
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Haidar Ali And Tipu Sultan
2,386 wordsHaidar Ali and Tipu Sultan The book Confronting Colonialism: Resistance and Modernization under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan by Irfan Habib is a compilation of essays devoted to Mysore under Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan. It is part of the remembrance of the second centenary of Tipu's last stand against the British at Srirangapatnam observed by the Indian History Congress. The idea, one assumes, is to underline the need to research the historical space inhabited by the two rulers, and to make a more u...
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Han Dynasty Nomadic Tribes
1,629 wordsThe greatest East-West trade route, The Silk Road, was named so by the German scholar Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen in the middle of the 19 th century. Later on it became the information super highway of its age, serving to trade not only goods but also knowledge and ideas between Western and Eastern civilizations. 1. The Silk Road was founded in the second century BC for military and political purpose instead of for trade. A court official named Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions by Ha...
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Indian Wars Civil War
264 wordsBuffalo Buffalo Soldiers Buffalo Soldiers Buffalo Soldiers was the name given to African-American cavalrymen by their native-American antagonists during the Indian Wars in the post-Civil War American West. The first men to serve in all-black army units did so in the Union Army, during the Civil War. The initial all-black regiment, the 54 th Massachusetts, trained by its white commander, Col. Robert G. Shaw, suffered heavy casualties in a heroic, though unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Wagner...
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York Holt Rinehart Bury My Heart
787 wordsBury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970. In the Introduction, the author tells how he put together a book of the oral history of the American Indians, based on the government records of council meetings with white officials. In these meetings, all Indians were allowed to speak. They chose their own interpreters, and they told their oral history in their own words. Chapter 1 begins with Columbus, who first called the people Indios (p. 1). Thus, the...
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Medieval Warfare Heavy Armor
945 wordsThe Crossbow and Longbow: Revolutionary Forms of Medieval Warfare The crossbow, a medieval missile weapon used in combat and recreation, revolutionized warfare in the 11 th Century. The mechanical device was introduced to the English by the Norman Invaders in 1066 and became widely used among the armies of numerous countries. The crossbows were originally constructed of horn and pliable wood but were eventually made of iron which added great power to its firing. The crossbow became a popular wea...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Early In The Morning
961 wordsThe Battle of Gettysburg July 1 st, 1863 It began with a skirmish the most costly battle in the history of the United States. Two divisions of Confederate soldiers headed for Gettysburg to drive out the Federal cavalry that had arrived before them (in search of shoes). The Federal cavalry under General John Buford met the rebels west of the town at Willoughby Run. This skirmish quickly became a large battle, which was what General Robert E. Lee was planning for. He sent 25, 000 soldiers to the b...
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Punic Wars Foot Soldiers
1,878 wordsThe Punic wars were a set of three wars that stretched from 264 - 146 BCE. They were fought between the Romans and Carthaginians over trading and land disputes. Basically, two quickly expanding empires came in contact with each other and war was inevitable. There was a fierce competition of trade goods, which formed a strong rivalry between the two powers. Carthage was a city that had been formed by the Phoenicians from Tyre in the 8 th century BCE. It was the strongest city in the Mediterranean...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Confederate Troops
1,051 wordsThe battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 1 through July 3, 1863, considered by most military historians the turning point in the American Civil War (Johnson 84). The Battle of Gettysburg was a decisive engagement in that it arrested the Confederates second and last major invasion of the North, destroyed their offensive strategy, and forced them to fight a defensive war in which the slowness of their manufacturing capacity and transportation facilities doomed them to defeat (McPherson 25). The...
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