History
The Spread of the Jewish Diaspora
In the span of a few centuries, the monotheistic religion of Judaism was known in many cultures. Many Jews were living among non-Jewish people and were practicing their own religion. […]
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American History
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
The whites wanted to abolish and segregate the African Americans. With this end in view they conspired against Alexander Manly, a newspaper editor, and overthrew the government following a violent attack. […]
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Jim Crow Laws for the African Americans
The Jim Crow era was a period of discrimination and segregation on the basis of race and ethnicity. It led to the prevalence of social norms and customs that resulted in comprehensive segregation of the African American masses. […]
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How Much of “Separate but Equal” was Plessy v. Ferguson?
The case of Plessy v. Ferguson questioned the social customs of Jim Crow. However, the Supreme Court’s judgment opposed the arguments of Homer Plessy and favored the state’s imposition of racial segregation. […]
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What Led to the Rise of the Modern State?
The Thirty Years’ war ended with the Treaty of Westphalia that acted as a catalyst in bringing about the modern state. The treaty, along with other concomitant factors, soon brought into action the decline of feudalism and emergence of the sovereign, modern state. […]
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The Feudal State Versus the Modern State
The modern state was based on the principles of sovereignty, territory and legitimacy. Feudalism, on the other hand, did not have well-defined categories of territory and power, which eventually led to the rise of the modern state. […]
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Feudalism: How the System Worked Before the Modern State
Feudalism emerged after the fall of the Roman empire but failed to sustain itself due to its various shortcomings. The defensive, hierarchic system with decentralized power soon gave in to allow for the modern state to rise. […]
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Christianity: From a Persecuted Faith to Persecuting Religion
After the 4th century, the doctrinal disputes on Christianity had political consequences as the Roman state was involved in the governance of the Church. Eventually, pagan worship of any sort within the empire got prohibited. […]
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Christianity: Organic Growth and Transformation
Early Christian communities had limited access to any of its foundational texts and no shared understanding of how to interpret them. However, all this changed when Constantine adopted the Christian faith. […]
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Emergence of Orthodoxy and Heresy in Christianity
Before Christianity got legitimized, defining and enforcing anything like orthodoxy was impossible. Christianity had had no rules, no traditions, no centralized authority. In fact, it was a cult that raised many suspicions. […]