Cause and Effect: The Crusades
In the High Middle Ages of the year 1095, Seljuk Turks stormed into Baghdad taking Jerusalem with them. They ravaged the towns and conquered all of Asian Minor from the Byzantine Greeks. Christian lands were burned and pillaged by an accursed race. The Byzantine emperor was in a state of emergenc....
Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales by Mª das Graças Borges
The Middle English Period (1066-1485)
England was invaded by the Normans in 1066 under the guidence of William I, the Conqueror. After the Norman conquest, England was divided into two societies and each one spoke its ow....
German History
A Consise History Of Germany
IMPORTANT DATES
AD 9
Germanic warriors decisively defeated Roman forces at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
486
The Frankish king Clovis overran the Roman province of Gaul. Clovis introduced features of Roman life into western Germany.
843
The Treaty of Verdun di....
High Middle Ages
The Roman Empire from its early days as a monarchy, through the Republic was
enormous, fairly well run and administrated. The fall of Rome led to total disaster and
had catastrophic effects through out Europe, which marked the starting point of the
Middle Ages (400-1000). Period between ....
Shakespeares sonnets
Introduction
Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 poems that deal with such themes as love, beauty, and mortality. The Sonnets were written over a number of years, possibly beginning in the early 1590s.
In a Shakesperean sonnet, poets often divide its 14 lines into 3 quatrains, followed....
The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History-book review
I am writing a book review of ¡°The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History¡±, which is written by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas. It was first published in 1973 by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, in New York. The price is 24.99 US dollars.
This is an economi....
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