As a result of the Treaty of Westphalia, the Netherlands gained independence from Spain, Sweden gained control of the Baltic and France was acknowledged as the preeminent Western power. The power of the Holy Roman Emperor was broken and the German states were again able to determine the religion of…
Alternatively known as, The Mexican War, Mexican Independence, or Mexican Cessation. The United States was unjustified in going into war with Mexico because President James K. Polk provoked it, the robbery of land, and the slavery expansion. Was the US justified or unjustified in going to war with Mexico? Alternatively…
In March 2003, British troops took part in a coalition invasion of Iraq. After a month of fighting, they overthrew Saddam Hussein’s regime and occupied the country. But it would be a further six years before Britain’s combat operations came to an end. Was Britain involved in the Iran Iraq…
With its three sharp horns and spiky head plate, Triceratops horridus must have been an intimidating presence as it trampled across western North America in the late Cretaceous period, some 69 million years ago. Despite its fierce appearance, this famous ceratopsian, or horned dinosaur, was an herbivore. Does a Triceratops…
Initially, only the United States possessed atomic weapons, but in 1949 the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb and the arms race began. Both countries continued building more and bigger bombs. In 1952, the United States tested a new and more powerful weapon: the hydrogen bomb. What countries had nuclear…
In February 1784, just after the close of the Revolutionary War, the General Assembly of Georgia earmarked 40,000 acres of land to endow “a college or seminary of learning.” The following year, Abraham Baldwin, a lawyer and minister educated at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who had settled in…
Violence could have been justified in France because people needed to be scared in order for them to obey the laws. France needed violence during this time because people were already unruly and the violence made them scared enough to try to obey the laws more. Although scholarly debate continues…
During the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attack the USS Liberty in international waters off Egypt’s Gaza Strip. The intelligence ship, well-marked as an American vessel and only lightly armed, was attacked first by Israeli aircraft that fired napalm and rockets at the ship. In all, 34 Americans…
Wheels are the archetype of a primitive, caveman-level technology. But in fact, they’re so ingenious that it took until 3500 B.C. for someone to invent them. During what age was the wheel invented? It was invented sometime around 3,500 BCE. During the transition between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age,…
More recently, many official buildings built in the US are very strongly influenced by Roman architecture. The most obvious is the White House, which displays Roman influences in the arches and columns on the exterior. Is DC modeled after Rome? The U.S. Capitol’s designs, derived from ancient Greece and Rome,…