Category: History 3303

The significance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was that it effectively opened up the west and established it as American territory. Spurred by the Louisiana Purchase, the expedition was designed to give the country a better sense of what it held as well as to attempt to soothe relations with the indigenous Indians and…

The history of China over the last century and a half is engulfed with a large range of paradoxical experiences that vary from national disgrace to total chaos as also from disgrace to moments of excitement and big achievements. It is truly said that the present successes of China are, in fact, a result of…

The Ottoman Empire was quite successful from its origin and up to its fall. It was created in the thirteenth century and existed until the end of World War I in 1918 (Evrensel and Minx 2). The height of its martial and economic strength began in the 1500s and continued to the seventeenth century (Evrensel…

Table of Contents Introduction Historical Background The Events that Led the Proclamation to Be Established The Emancipation Proclamation Contents The Emancipation Proclamation’s Outcomes Proclamation’s Impact on Society Conclusion References Introduction The Emancipation Proclamation was President Lincoln’s decision to enforce the Republicans’ armies and weaken the Confederates during the Civil War. The document declared that 3,5…

The beginning of the first studied cycle of the development of capitalism coincides precisely with this acute economic crisis, which had a broad international character. The crisis did not manifest itself simultaneously in different countries, but apparently, it was caused by common causes. This is the impossibility of further economic growth without qualitative (including political)…

In his book, ‘What’s the Matter with Kansas’, Thomas Frank has explored the rise of conservatism in the US by way of a true picture of his home state Kansas, which was initially a stronghold of the left-wing movements in the nineteenth century and later became more conservative in nature in the current times. Frank…

Introduction The collapse of the whole human civilization has always been a debatable question. Moreover, the understanding of the reasons for collapse is even a more arguable and versatile question. There have been many types of research done, trying to assemble all the previous experiences and to infer what are the most general factors for…

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was one of the major turning points in the world and Japanese history. The affect of the bombing left negative traces in all spheres of human relations: social, political, environmental, psychological, and medical. The atomic strike caused great destruction and the death of hundreds thousands of…

Table of Contents Introduction The Position of the Class in Society Conclusion Work Cited Introduction The Tokugawa period in Japan was characterized by social class struggles and changes in their value and standard of living. Among the peoples of the Japanese feudal system, the samurai, who remained long at the center of military and political…

Table of Contents Introduction Background of the Two Documents Comparing and Contrasting the Documents The Significance of the Apparent Change in Ideals Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Writing the history of a country is not an easy task; many historians have tried to bring something of their own to the chronology of events. One such historian…