Western Civilization

Here is a history essay I did in 2011: Ikhnaton, an Egyptian Pharaoh.

Western Civilization I Essays:

#1 Abraham to Moses

#2 Minoan Civilization 

#3 Mycenae

#4 The Iliad

#5 Were the Cyclops a Civilization?

#6 Disagreement between the Sophists and Socrates

#7 Sparta

#8 Qualities of Plato’s Ideal Monarch

#9 The Peloponnesian War

#10 The Temple of Hephaestus 

#11 Epicureanism

#12 Ancient Rome: The Struggle of the Orders

#13 The Decline of the Roman Republic

#14 The Five Good Emperors – Rome

#15 Rome’s Third Century Crisis and Diocletian

#16 St. Augustine of Hippo

#17 The Merovingian and the Carolingian Dynasties

#18 Christianity in Britain During the Early Middle Ages

#19 The Emperor Justinian

#20 King Louis IX of France

#21 Common Misconceptions About the Crusades

#22 The Gregorian Reform

#23 The Magna Carta

#24 The Renaissance of the Twelve Century

#25 Scholastic Philosophy

#26 St. Thomas Aquinas

#27 Gothic Cathedrals

#28 Pope Boniface VIII vs. King Philip IV

#29 The Hundred Years War

#30 The Great Schism

#31 The Great Western  Schism

#32 Petrarch — Father of Humanism

#33 Three Early Renaissance Artists

#34 The Political Centralization of the States of the Iberian Peninsula

Western Civilization II Essays:

#1 John Calvin on Predestination

#2 The English Reformation

#3 The Levellers

#4 The Glorious Revolution of England

#5 John Locke and His Second Treatise on Civil Government

#6 Thomas Hobbes and Absolutism

#7 The War of the Spanish Succession

#8 Peter the Great of Russia

#9 The Scientific Revolution

#10 Adam Smith

#11 How the American Revolution Began

#12 The French Revolution

#13 Napoleon Bonaparte

#14 The Industrial Revolution

#15 The Abolition of Slavery

#16 The History of Compulsory State Education

#17 Frederic Bastiat: His Works

#18 Romanticism

#19 The Revolutions of 1848

#20 Karl Marx and Marxism

#21 The Unification of Italy

#22 The ‘Kulturkampf’

#23 Modernism

#24 The Coming of World War I

#25 World War I

#26 The Paris Peace Conference

#27 The Russian Revolution

#28 The Factors Leading Up To WWII

#29 How WWII Became Global

#30 The Brutality of WWII

#31 Revenge In WWII

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