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Archaeological evidence indicates that small seafaring communities existed throughout the Philippine Archipelago for at least 2000 years, prior to the arrival of the Spaniards. The chief means of trading was barter. Records show that Chinese merchants came to the Philippines to trade porcelain, silk and metal ware in exchange for gold, pearls, beeswax and medicinal…

Question One The conditions that allowed or favored Napoleon to follow his policies both domestic and foreign was because of the peace negotiations of the Russia and the British empires. On my opinion Napoleon could have pursued other policies to enable him to conquer Italy and Rome. One of his policies would have the building…

INTRODUCTION The Story of Blima: A Holocaust Survivor is a true story. It tells of the experience of Blima Weisstuch, a Jewish girl in Poland, between the years 1936 and 1947. To a reader today, those words—Jews, 1940s, Poland—may not suggest anything particular. But to someone who lived through those years, the words evoke shudders…

Shows how responsibility causes people to grow up and mature very quickly. The prince in the story starts out very selfish and impulsive. He goes out and fights his way across the kingdom in order to marry the princess. The princess is the love of his life but she does not know who he is….

The Gadsden Purchase, completed in 1853, is an important land acquisition in the history of the United States. It entailed the US acquiring land from Mexico to construct a railway that would improve east-west transportation in the southern region and fulfill Manifest Destiny. This paper aims to explore the events leading up to the Gadsden…

Francisco Goya, an artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, expressed his views on the political turbulence in Spain through his artwork. Living during a period of political and social unrest in Europe, Goya was deeply influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, which had also captured the attention of Spain’s influential figures….

Colonialism had very detrimental effects on black women in the Caribbean. The former institutionalized black slavery in the region, which, in turn, resulted in the oppression of black women. During the period of slavery in the Caribbean, black female chattel were usually delegated to sexual labor – wet nursing, slave breeding and prostitution (Kempadoo 5)….

Classical Argument             In a span of twelve years there were 6 million Jews dead, 1.5 million of whom were children!  In the infamous Holocaust of Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor of Germany, the Jews were persecuted and systematically annihilated from January 30, 1933 up to May 8, 1945.  The Holocaust was the greatest tragedy to…

The present research paper will analyze the state of affairs in Egypt under the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), and trace the elements of Nasser’s legacy which were observed in the domestic and international politics of Egypt even after the death of this prominent leader. He survived in the memories of descendants as the…

“Toirdelbach Ua Briain (1009–14 July 1086), anglicised Turlogh O’Brien, was King of Munster and effectively High King of Ireland. A grandson of Brian Boruma, Toirdelbach was the son of Tadc mac Briain who was killed in 1023 by his half-brother Donnchad mac Briain. For the first forty years of his life nothing is known of…