Activity 1 – Laying the Foundations (Knowledge & Understanding) Concepts Mycenaea 6500 BCE Neolithic farming starts to develop also the production bronze starts, there is trade and use of natural resources. Archaeologist called this new culture Mycenaean, after its largest political centre,...

As man evolved over the centuries, his views of art transformed. Each culture and era presents very distinct characteristics of their art. Through time and experimentation, the views of mankind clearly are seen in art. We must understand how art was used in the past to know why we need it today. E...

Julius Caesar, Life of Julius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of the history of the Greek - Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength he created a strong empire. What happened during his early political career? How did he become such a st...

Throughout history, religion has played a major role in the development of civilizations. Religions such as Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism have spread to other kingdoms throughout the world by use of missionaries. These missionaries would begin with the upper class of a society until their messag...

Throughout history, religion has played a major role in the development of civilizations. Religions such as Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism have spread to other kingdoms throughout the world by use of missionaries. These missionaries would begin with the upper class of a society until their messag...

During the time of the Roman Empire the Roman military was a very powerful "military war machine"(Nardo 259) that conquered most of the known world of that time. The Roman military of the Empire was the best-structured, organized, and maintained military through 31BC-400AD. According to the size of ...

Eternal Prominence: The Impact of Ancient GreeceIn the eighth century B.C. a revolutionary force embarked on a cultural conquest that would change the western world forever. Greece was conceived, a lustrous gem in a world dominated by routine and rigid conformity. Egypt, renowned up to that point ...

Thomas Cahill\'s book \"How the Irish Saved Civilization,\" is called the untold story of Ireland\'s heroic role in maintaining Western culture, from the fall of the Roman Empire until the European dark ages. The main point of this book, as specified in the book\'s title, is how the Irish saved civ...

Today\'s society in which we live in has based itself on the past achievements and failures of previous civilizations which rose and fell with the hands of time. Every one of those civilizations made certain contributions to history as well as developing human intellectuality in order to enhance its...

Julius Caesar was a man who took a falling city and made it in to a glorious empire. Caesar did many things that we still use today and that helped shape the western world as we know it today. Those things include many reforms that changed the city of Rome and in changing the city of Rome and its wa...

Augustus Caesaar is known as one of the most prominent and capable leaders in Roman history. Born as Gaius Octavius Thurnius, Augustus became a member of the Second Triumvirate. He eventually defeated the army of his fellow Triumvirate member, Marcus Antonius and became sole ruler of Rome. Octavius ...

War is a complicated subject that has ignited the interests of many scholars over the years. The human culture is concerned with the topic and for a good reason. War itself is as old as man; they can be seen as going hand in hand with each other. Until the day that we as humans can find ways to ov...

The fall of the Roman Republic and eventually the fall of the Western Roman empire are both very important events in our world's history. There were many different events and problems that contributed to the fall of Rome. Economic depression, high taxes, and barbarian domination are all po...

In the thousands of years men have formed nations and established dominance over one another, no other event has made as much an impact on military history as the Punic Wars during the fourth and third century BC. The Punic Wars served to demonstrate to all of the known civi-lized nations at that t...

Brian Tomory HIST 3 November 13, 2001 First Draft Historical Problems in the Original Works on Caesar Augustus As a history student progresses through his/her studies, there reaches a certain point where the student achieves an adequate level of advancement. A history student or any st...

How were the Romans so successful in maintaining their empire? How is it possible that such a huge land area could be governed by a single power without modern communications networks? Why did subjugated peoples so readily submit to foreign domination and foreign taxes? Rome actually had relatively ...

Augustus CaesarIn ancient history there have been many great leaders who have come to the forefront to save the Roman Empire from destruction and demise. The leaders and heroes of the Roman Empire are countless, but one leader stands out from all the rest. Augustus Caesar's contributions to Roman ...

The Patristic period in the history of the church range from 100 to about 500 AD. During this period the church suffered severe persecution and from this period of persecutions she developed a theology that carried her up to this century. So this essay is going to discuss the persecution, reasons fo...

Julius Caesar The hero of the Romans was Caesar. He did not solely depend on conquests, as others military leaders had, to forge his personality, and consequently become famous. Caesar's unique character in history was due to his triumph against the challenges that he faced in Rome and also o...

Hippolytus of Rome was one of the most prominent 3rd-century theologians in the Christian Church in Rome. He was born in 170 C.E. and died in 235 C.E. in Sardinia. Even though the exact place of his birth is unknown, it can be inferred that he was indeed probably born in Rome or is of Eastern descen...

Hippolytus of Rome was one of the most prominent 3rd-century theologians in the Christian Church in Rome. He was born in 170 C.E. and died in 235 C.E. in Sardinia. Even though the exact place of his birth is unknown, it can be inferred that he was indeed probably born in Rome or is of Eastern descen...

One of our progressions in the world is trying to minimize the size of our global village. The world has been made smaller with the means of the internet and air travel. Art, without a doubt, is no exception to the group of contributors of the shrinking world. In some forms, it is the most powerf...

The book, Daily Life in Papal Rome in the Eighteenth Century, by Maurice Andrieux, is an enlightening piece of work that describes how the Romans lived; how they thought about life; and how the leadership of the Popes ruled and the different personalities toward the Church. The information and descr...

The Middle Ages was a period in Western European history that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire between the 4th and 5th centuries and lasted up into the 15th century. Medieval Europe was far from unified. It was a large area split into small, culturally diverse units that were never totall...

What possible similarity, one might be tempted to ask, could exist between the apparently profoundly secular author of "Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari" the Italian humanist and proto-nationalist Coluccio Salutati, whose life was filled chiefly by political and administrative matters and th...