US relationship with Latin America

There is one topic that goes highly unnoticed in the United States, and that is our relationship with Latin America; the region that brings us many of the immigrants that make up this great country. Although the Cold War ended almost 20 years ago, and Fidel Castro, the controversial leader of the Communist Party of … Read more

Religion as a field within archaeology

Religion is now regarded as the most underdeveloped field within archaeology. While efforts have been made to correct this through the development of various theories, none have been perfected. As a result, archaeology has no theory of religion, and archaeologists are unsure as to how to approach it. Therefore, archaeological reconstruction of belief systems of … Read more

Assessment of Significance – Tutankhamun’s Funerary Mask

Statement of Significance King Tutankhamun is easily the most widely recognised Pharaoh from Ancient Egypt. Along with his mummified remains, Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team also excavated many objects in which he was buried with such as his Funerary Mask. These objects are of great importance to modern society as the continuously prove to … Read more

The Fall of the Western Roman Empire

The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the result of the destruction in the Western Roman Empire in which the Empire definitely neglected to actualize its administer, and its wide domain was isolated into a few sorted out social orders. The Roman Empire lost the qualities that had permitted it to rehearse viable control … Read more

Impact of globalisation now and in the future

David Harvey first posed the idea of “time-space compression” (Harvey, 1989: 260) in 1989 in The Condition of Postmodernity. Once far away places and cultures are closer than ever before and our world has undergone dramatic social, economic and cultural reconstruction in recent decades, propelled in part by globalisation, capitalism and the increasingly-interdependent nature of … Read more

The Wright brothers’ advances in aeronautics

Orville and Wilbur Wright were two brothers that dreamed of flying. They are known as the inventors of the world’s first airplane. The airplane revolutionized the world in many ways, not just America.  The airplane revolutionized transport of many things almost anywhere. This expanded the trade market greatly, being able to quickly travel far distances … Read more

Causes of the First World War

Lasting from July 1914 until November 1918 the First World War has been one of the most significant and devastating events in history. Arisen as a result of conflict amongst Eastern and Western Europe and the disruption of the balance of power by the unification of Germany, World War was one of the greatest wars … Read more

The traits that indicate modern human behaviour

The traits that indicate modern human behaviour are not as clear cut as many would believe. The Upper Palaeolithic is an intensely crucial period for all of human evolution because it helps to trace out the development of cultures in this time period. ‘Primitive human’ refers to early hominids and the ‘modern human’ is a … Read more

Vampires – fact or fiction?

There has always been a wonder between what is fiction and nonfiction. There have been many questions about whether something is fictional or true, and a major example being the debate over vampires. Although the old sayings of humans becoming bats, never aging, and turning into dust while exposed to sunlight, are merely tales of … Read more

Eternity and Sacrifice in the Ara Pacis Augustae

The Ara Pacis was vowed on July 4th of 13 B.C. and dedicated on January 30th of 9 B.C. as a gift to Augustus from the Roman Senate upon his return from Spain and Gaul.  Augustus himself states “after successfully arranging affairs… the senate resolved that an altar of Augustan Peace should be consecrated next … Read more

The Mexican War

A few history specialists have called the Mexican War the principal clash of the Civil War, for it restored extraordinary and warmed level headed discussion about the development of bondage in the West. Strains reached a critical stage when Pennsylvanian congressman David Wilmot put forward the Wilmot Proviso in 1846, recommending that servitude be restricted … Read more

1960s Music

The 1960s was a period of political and social upheaval. In the midst of a time of war in Vietnam, the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, a new era of Civil Rights with the continuing escalation of the Civil Rights Movement, and several other social movements that began to blossom, the 60s were a … Read more

John Calvin

Ever since its inception, Christianity has been drastically changing. Creeds have been established and doctrines revised. The religion has been both outlawed and imposed by those in power, and has even become a world religion in two separate time periods. Most importantly, it has been continually challenged since the day that Christ walked on the … Read more