… The Indus River flows through the region of Kashmir, so whichever nation controls Kashmir will also control the source of irrigation water. Irrigation water is extremely important to both countries that need the water for farming and drinking…

… The First World War ended with the Treaty of Versailles going into effect, followed by the Great Depression, collecting German aggression on new limitations, Italian hostility, and Japanese belligerence. Pre World War II conditions were favorable…

… who lived in Central and Southern Mexico. They lived from the 14th to the 16th century. They made a huge empire based on conquest, paying tribute, and religious sacrifice of humans and animals. This is a map of the Aztec Empire by Larry…

… a president, it’s difficult to cover them all. He was the first president to ride in an automobile and the first to campaign for political office using a telephone.  He once rode in an electric car, although he could not have known that the vehicle was…

… is paying the decedents of a slave money because there ancestors were slaves. There are many who are for and many who are against slave reparations. I for one am against slave reparations. For the dependents of black slaves to make demands for…

… Depression is dismal. Entire families were uprooted from the solid foundations that they created several years before. This was a time of immeasurable economic instability, and as many of us have read, the depression started with the atrocious crash…

… started to enforce the theory of mercantilism. Their motive was to increase their prosperity using their colonies. They expected the colonies to provide them with goods and to only buy British goods in return. As a result of this attempt, the colonies…

… become more and more important and influential. It takes time to see how an event could be influential. And what does it influence? On September 11, 2001, our nation was rattled with the terrorist attacks against our nation. It was a huge event in our…

… 1850 and 1928? Between 1850 and 1928 enfranchisement had grown rapidly. There were many aspects which contributed to the rapid growth of the franchise in Britain: government legislation, changing society, various reform movements,…

… the North American settlements it had colonized. These colonies had begun as scattered groups of settlers in the 1600's. Regulation of trade, free government, and the eventual victory of the British in the French and Indian War led to Britain's conques…