Essays on History

Following the defeat of the French and their Indian allies in the French & Indian War in 1763, very few people would have guessed a massive and destructive civil war would erupt between the colonies and the mother country. The problems that led up to...

George Orwell once made the observation, ‘Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words, it is war minus the shooting’. Sporting contests have...

Chivalry is an evocative word, conjuring up enchanting images of gentlemen in shining armor mounted on white horses fighting bravely to rescue the damsels in distress, protectors of the poor and downtrodden, servants to their virtuous kings, and guardians of the Christian faith. But this...

A chilling Breeze passes through Great Britain as Winston Churchill was about to give the most crucial speech of all time. The speech that Sprouts into the death of over 9 million innocent people. The Holocaust was a time of savagery where many everyone who...

After the end of the destructive World War I, the victorious Allies wanted to ensure that a similar tragedy would never happen again. To achieve this, US President Woodrow Wilson proposed the creation of an international organization, called the League of Nations, the goals of...

Martin Luther was born during an incredibly distressed age, and this was the tense transitional period between the Middle Ages and the Modern Ages. During this progressive time, outdated ways were becoming unfavoured, and new innovations and means of change were uprising at a rapid...

Should it take 50 years for a country to understand the magnitude of the Holocaust? It is said that people are denying that the Holocaust ever happened. With all the evidence that has been presented, it is hard to refute that this event in history...

The Second World War was the most barbarous and devastating war in human history, and Europe was converted to a devastated continent with high unemployment, shortage of basics such as food, electricity, fuel. In France and Italy, there was a wide popular discontent with poverty,...

The diversity within Protestantism is a result of the reformation and schism that occurred in the Church throughout the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. This resulted in the forming of new Christian churches and their numerous and multiple ways of practicing Christianity. This is incredibly important...

Before the Spanish colonization during the early 15th century, China had sent traders to the Philippines which started the beginning of significant influence within the culture of the Filipinos. The Chinese colonization in the Philippines have brought blissful and marvelous influences to the Filipinos over...

“A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not...

On February 8th, 1725 the great leader Peter the Great has died. In this article lets remember him and the great things he did for his country. One great thing about him even before his rule was his unlimited curiosity. Nikita Zotov his tutor could...

The Reformation formed the era in which modern society commenced. An era in which people began to think for their own wellbeing and not follow the will of the Church without question. Luther’s core belief that salvation came through one on one interaction with God...

Introduction Political violence is described as violence initiated with the help of a politically motivated agenda by the help of state and non-state actors. Political violence is also defined as the use of force by a group of people having political motivation or political purpose....

By the time Peter the First, or how he came to be known through the generations, Peter the Great, was coronated, Russia was the largest country in the world. Its vast dominion stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Much of Russia’s expansion...

The existence of Peter the Great overflowed so much with personal dramas and bizarre aspects that it radiated a sense of mystery and inexhaustible fascination. But who was Peter the Great? He was the son of Aleksej Michailovič and Natalia Kirillovna Naryškina, proclaimed tsar at...

War is a very devastating event to have to live through and experience therefore, the chances are very high that people will go almost to drastic measures to ensure that another war doesn’t occur. There are a long list of ‘causes’ that can be argued...

Back in November 2004, a regime-controlled media had claimed the victory for Viktor Yanukovych who had been handpicked by a corrupt president at the time. Even though exit polls indicated Viktor Yushchenko as the winner of the election, it was clear to the public that...

The second world war broke out on September 3rd 1939 after Hitler had ignored demands from Britain and France to withdraw from Poland. This is thought to be one of the main reasons for the outbreak of World War 2 but the possibility of war...