.... offerings to these deities included human heads. They admired skilled craftsmanship and intellectual ability, but they were enthusiastic hunters and they fought each other at the hint of an insult. They always fought fiercely and often for the sheer joy of physical combat and competition. This extreme desire to conquer is what drove the Celts to their numerous invasions and conquests. First, they conquered the Iberian Peninsula, which is present day Spain. Next, they went on to conquer the Etruscans, and then Rome. The Celtic chieftain Brennos, who invaded Greece and nearly conquered Delphi, was defeated by the Greeks who crushed his army. Another explanation of ....

.... bags of gold jewelry being bought and sold. Beyond the market place you can watch a religious ceremony. You hear the scream of a person being sacrificed to one of the gods. Beyond the city there are roads made of stone and canals full of pedestrians and canos. Who are these people and what are they doing here you wonder? The above paragraph describes what an early explorer in Mexico might have seen between 1400 and 1500 AD. is one of the largest and most advanced Indian nations to ever exist on earth. Just about every part of the Aztec life was advance to such a state that at that time of the world the people were living better than many European nations. is unique in its ....

.... through different cycles and strategies to achieve what they wanted. One of the first effective regional organized was the Knights of Labor formed in 1869. The knights took in not only skilled workers but also any worker that could be truly classified as a producer. The knights took their peek in 1885 when strikes against Union Pacific, Southwest System, and Wabash railroads attracted public sympathy and succeeded in preventing a reduction in wages, at this time they boasted a membership of 700,000. 1886 was a troubled year for labor relations. There were nearly 1,600 strikes involving 600,000 workers, with the eight-hour day being the important item for all of the strikes ....

.... attract white teenagers. Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave it the name of Rock n' Roll. Record companies distributed records played by whites but composed by blacks. Whites were frustrated because there weren't any white artists, and they didn't want the blacks to be the stars until Bill Haley appeared with his "Rock Around the Clock". In this decade, Elvis Presley introduced a music that was sexual-suggestive, and outraged many adults of that time. In time, he changed the style of the music by adopting a country and western style and became a national hero. By the end of this decade and the start of the next, Rock n' Roll started to ....

.... the changes that were taking place. As a result, the alterations in society can be understood from the Roman Empire to the time of Charlemagne, just by observing some of the artwork from these times The Roman Empire was a definite milestone for the advancement of knowledge and civilization. The historian Edward Gibbon in his classic book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire declared that Rome had at last experienced a "period the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous." At this time, he continues, "the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth and the most civilized portion of mankind." ....

.... This was politically motivated because McCarthy was trying to further his own political career. It was uncertain whether he would maintain his seat in Congress in the 1950 mid-term elections, so he needed a strong issue to campaign on. He had witnessed Richard Nixon become a household name in the United States, when he successfully prosecuted Algar Hiss, who was accused of passing government papers to the Soviets. McCarthy desired a national reputation and the Republican party used McCarthy to play on the fears that already existed in society about a communist threat to the United States to damage Truman's administration. It is not enough to simply blame the Republi ....

.... F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, his successor, vice-president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, or LBJ, was forced to take the plunge into presidency at a crucial time. The Vietnam War had already been ignited and US involvement was apparent. Because Johnson was an insecure man, and with that insecurity came a fear of being ridiculed, he wanted to show the American people that he could be the best president in US history. Although his intentions to create a 'Great Society' and to win the war in Vietnam were probably for the best, he still managed to make more mistakes that anything else. In August of 1964, LBJ, wantin to look serious about the halt of communism, bombed the North V ....

.... almost all of my family died in the Holocaust," she said with her head down as I interviewed her. There was 54 of Ellen’s family members died in the Holocaust form what Ellen knows. There could be more but she's not really sure. There was 26 died on her mother's side and 28 died on her father's side. They were all in different ages 10-63 on her mother's side and 19-69 on her father's. After the Holocaust Ellen's family was looking for each other, it took them close to a year until she found them. She was looking for the one that died and alive. It took her a year in a half until she finally could go back on her feet. "I was the lucky one, there some are just finding there ....