Near the end of Roman rule, Britain was being attacked by the Picts and Scots from the north, and the Anglo-Saxons from the sea. The Romans built forts to defend the coast and Hadrian’s wall defended the north. Saxon warriors were invited to Britain in around AD380 to help the…
The colonies were morally justified in declaring independencedeclaring independenceAdams, Jefferson, and Franklin were members of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay were authors of The Federalist Papers, advocating ratification of the Constitution.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Founding_Fathers_of_the_U…Founding Fathers of the United States –…
While not always successful, and ultimately unable to prevent a second world war, the League served as the basis for the United Nations, an international organization still present today. Open covenants of peace and transparent diplomacy. Absolute freedom of the seas. The removal of economic and trade barriers. An end…
Many Anti-Federalists preferred a weak central government because they equated a strong government with British tyranny. Others wanted to encourage democracy and feared a strong government that would be dominated by the wealthy. They felt that the states were giving up too much power to the new federal government. The…
PLEBEIANSPLEBEIANSIn ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words “commoners”. Both classes were hereditary.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PlebeiansPlebeians – Wikipedia were the common people of Rom, a group that included…
To ready them for a life in the field, the boy soldiers were also encouraged to scavenge and even steal their food, though if detected they were punished with floggings. Just as all Spartan men were expected to be fighters, all women were expected to bear children. Boys in Sparta…
In 1894, the Chiricahua Apaches were relocated from the prisons in Alabama and Florida via train to Fort Sill, where they would become known as the Fort Sill Apache. The tribe would be settled on the military reservation. They held them at Fort Pickens in Florida. Some of the warriors…
The first part of Rome’s government was made up of elected officials, or magistrates ( MA-juh-strayts). The two most powerful magistrates in Rome were called consuls (KAHN-suhlz). The consuls were elected each year to run the city and lead the army. There were two consuls so that no one per-…
Jobs and Wozniak became friends when Jobs worked for the summer at HP, where Wozniak, too, was employed, working on a mainframe computer. We first met in 1971 during my college years, while he was in high school. A friend said, ’you should meet Steve Jobs because he likes electronics,…
In most fiction and even history books, when discussing things like the Persian invasion and the PeloponesianPeloponesianThe Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between the Delian League, which was led by Athens, and the Peloponnesian League, which was led by Sparta.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Peloponnesian_WarPeloponnesian War…