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…of expansion. However, during the first two centuries of the existence of each religion there were fundamental differences between the expansion of Christianity and that of Islam, despite early similarities in the way they spread. Christianity existed several…

…Power at what Price? In the early 1500's Niccolo Machiavelli published a book, The Prince on the control of one's power. The book was dedicated to the current prince of the Medici family, Giuliano de Medici, in Machaivelli's hopes to get…

…, but rather a spiritual crisis from which they could not recover. The reunification of Egypt didn’t begin taking shape until the Middle Bronze Age. Two distinct empires arose from the ashes of the Old Kingdom. In Upper Egypt, there was Mentuhotep I’s 11th Dynasty…

…Throughout the postclassical era, Western Europe experienced many commercial and cultural changes. The decline of the Roman Empire is what officially designated the beginning of the postclassical era, which began around 500 c.e, and it lasted until…

…their influence in the twelfth century and in the early sixteenth century, they exercised control over more territory than any other people had done in South American history. The empire consisted of over one million individuals, spanning a territory stretching from…

…Prior to the 1800's, and before foreign influence, China was a powerful country, and had been ruled by many different dynasties starting with the Hsia dynasty in the second millenium B.C. to the Ching dynasty ending in 1911. (A Short History of China…

…and Slavs had great national pride and wanted independence from Austria. The same was true in WW2. Germany wanted to expand its empire throughout Europe, and have more ‘living space’. The sense of national pride, which was tarnished by the War Guilt Clause from…

…of these states was Chao-hsien. The early leaders of Chao-hsien called themselves “tangun wanguom” to signify both their descent from the divine creator and their monarchial status . The leaders of Choa-hsien soon realized that in order to maintain power over…

…of the Empire of Japan. President Truman’s announcement of “Dropping of an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima” marked an important point in the history of the United States as well as the whole world. The President’s address to the nation was given on August 6th…

…decided to build its empire, to gain more land, crops, and raw materials - called Japanese Imperialism. Due to the Meiji modernization, by 1890, Japan's military was very powerful. The Japanese troops succeeded in defeating China in the Sino-Japanese War…