Essays Tagged: "North Africa"

The Life & Times of Alexander the Great

fluence on hundreds of different cultures around the world.Throughout thewhole of Europe, Asia, and North Africa, stories of this great man have been handed down fromgeneration togeneration throughout ...

(6 pages) 158 0 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Fibonacci Numbers

cs and made significantcontributions of his own. Even though he was born in Italy he was educated inNorth Africa where his father held a diplomatic post. He did a lot of traveling withhis father. He p ...

(2 pages) 121 0 3.9 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Albert Camus

y, was born in Algeria in 1913, in an extreme poverty area. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he worked at various jobs in the weather bureau, in an automobile-accessory firm ... r himself by getting an education and preparing himself to go to college. The fact that he lived in North Africa, he wrote lots of fiction books, dealing with moral problems of universal importance.1. ...

(7 pages) 66 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Explains Giuseppe Garibaldi's whole life. How he created the Thousand men army and how he expanded

by supporting his country against Austrian and French forces. During his second exile, he lived in North Africa, Peru, and the United States. He returned to Italy in 1854 when Cavour allowed him to.I ... Along with his army, Garibaldi took over Sicily. He crossed to Italy's mainland and continued to go north. He conquered Naples by defeating the king's army. His conquests were well known in Italy and ...

(1 pages) 45 1 2.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Giuseppe Garibaldi

which he controlled from montevideo.After he was in South America he went to the United States and North Africa. The living in the two continets made him earn the name of (hero of the 2 worlds).He co ...

(1 pages) 41 1 2.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

This is a paper that I wrote for my health class. I was assigned the topic of smallpox. I did very well on this 5 page paper.

The disease is at least 3000 years old, confirmed in China and India, with a few isolated cases in North Africa. There is no mention in Europe until the 6th century.During the 17th and 18th Centuries ...

(5 pages) 113 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The Yalta Conference, detailed information on what happend behind the table of the "Big three leaders" at the end of WWII,bibliography included

s of war, Hitler's Germany controlled all of France, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as much of North Africa, and his war machine strongly threatened Great Britain with continuous air raids. On th ...

(12 pages) 157 0 4.5 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

an extensive biography on Adolf Hitler's life as a child, how he worked his way up and his involvement in World War 2

rld. He also hoped to conquer the entire world, and for a time dominated most of Europe and much of North Africa. He instituted sterilization and euthanasia measures to enforce his idea of racial puri ...

(13 pages) 133 2 4.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Crusades in Europe and how it effected everyone during their time.

ral Europe until the 10th century". Around 800, several centuries of Viking raids disrupted life in northern Europe and even threatened Mediterranean cities. Nevertheless, the greatest threat came fro ... ing the death of their leader, Muhammad, in 632. By the eighth century Islamic forces had conquered North Africa, the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, and most of Spain. Islamic armies established ...

(10 pages) 135 2 4.7 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Spread of Islam in the 7th CE to12th CE

dle East, including Persia, though the Byzantine Empire long held out amid reduced Asian territory. North Africa was another early conquest. Conquests by Muslim Arabs gradually turned into a more gene ... nquests by Muslim Arabs gradually turned into a more general spread of Islam in its Middle Eastern--North African heartland and beyond. There were many factors which contributed to spread of Islam. Th ...

(3 pages) 148 0 4.1 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

A look at the prevalence of the Catholic religion in Spain, Catholic Saint Blessed JoseMaria Escriva, and the controversial Catholic 'cult' of Opus Dei. 1400 words.

oman Apostolic. Aside from the Catholics, there are a few thousand Jews, mostly Sephardic Jews from North Africa, who settle in larger cities like Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Cordoba. Recently, a s ... popularity.Blessed Josemaria EscrivaJosemaria Escriva de Balaguer was born in Barbastro in 1902, in northeastern Spain, near the Pyrenees. The second of six siblings, he grew up with the Catholic reli ...

(5 pages) 71 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Slaves in the Ottoman Empire.

to do and who they were.Most male slaves did military service. They were either bought from Spain, North Africa or Venice, captured in battle or acquired through devshirme. Devshirme was a system by ...

(4 pages) 46 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

Carthage War- Punic Wars How Rome destroyed the City and Carthage did not have a clue of what would happen until it was to late

Carthage was a city, which controlled all the Mediterranean trade and owned North Africa. Rome controlled the entire Italian peninsula. While expanding they met in the middle. ...

(1 pages) 25 0 3.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

THis is a general report on copper. It describes it's physical properties, chemical properties, and its uses.

It's discovery dates back to prehistoric times in 9000BC. Signs of its uses were found in Iraq and North Africa. Copper has an atomic weight of 63.546 and its atomic number is 29. Its melting point i ...

(2 pages) 44 2 4.9 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

French nuclear testing at Moruroa

g of full independence to Algeria in 1962. The French decision to switch its atomic facilities from North Africa to the South Pacific is still widely criticized, as it was when it was first known, by ...

(3 pages) 20 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Coral Sea - An Important Battle

British Empire in India and the Middle East, then link up with German forces in Southern Russia and North Africa. Take Australia, counseled the Japanese Navy, this was the obvious starting point for a ... a minute; the Neosho was left burning and helplessly adrift.Thirty minutes later, 200 miles to the northeast, Lieutenant Commander W. L. Hamilton from the Lexington was flying at 15,000 feet when he ...

(4 pages) 39 2 4.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Cultural Analysis of Spain

ed in Spain. Migration into Spain continued from Europe beyond the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean, and North Africa. Following the Iberians, came the Celts. The two cultures merged and established a dist ... and established a distinctive Celt Iberian culture. In 1492, the Moors, a nomadic, Muslim tribe of North African origin, were driven off of the Iberian Peninsula. Shortly after, several kingdoms on t ...

(7 pages) 126 1 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Life and success of Herodotus

r 484 B.C. in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor. During his youth, he traveled Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa. During his travels, he studied the manners, customs, and religions of the people and l ...

(1 pages) 91 3 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

The 1st Punic War 264 - 241 BC

First Punic War 264 - 241 BC:Carthage was a city in North Africa. It was very similar to a Greek city-state by 300BC. It was a wealthy city-state that m ... rchants traded in the western Mediterranean where only Greeks traded before. They also traded a far north as England to get Cornish tin, and down the coast of western Africa to get gold and ivory.Like ... ries, which Rome did not do. By the early 200's BC, Carthage had an empire that controlled not only north Africa but they also controlled Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and other small islands in the weste ...

(4 pages) 36 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Harbingers of Jewish Modernity: Marranos, Renaissance Jews, and Court Jews

rced all Jews who had not renounced their faith to be expelled from Spain. Many Marranos settled in North Africa and Western Europe. By the eighteenth century, emigration and assimilation had led to t ...

(3 pages) 38 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History