The nation of Nigeria was created by the combination of regions made of very different ethnic and religious groups. Ethnic conflict between the groups, including against the Igbo people, was an...
Category: World History Reading Passages
The Babylonian Conquest: How King Nebuchadnezzar Destroyed the Holy City
Babylonia was one of the great empires of the Ancient Middle East. King Nebuchadnezzar the Great, ruler of the land for over forty years, was its most renowned leader. He ruthlessly put down any...
Geography is the study of the world, the locations found there, and how people interact with them. As people engage with the world, they carefully diagram representations of it (maps) to fully...
Decode the Cold War: Your Go-to Glossary for Critical Terminology
World War II led to worldwide death and destruction, including two examples of the horrible possibilities of nuclear weapons. Two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, remained. They...
Japan, once an isolated collection of islands in East Asia, became a global imperial power. Japan then became a world economic power. Using the East Asian model that includes heavy governmental...
Ancient Egypt was a polytheistic society, one that worshiped many gods. Egyptians believed that it was necessary to properly worship the gods to maintain order on earth and obtain human happiness....