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This Is A Thread Were You PM Me And Ask Me To Do A Bit Of Info On A Piece Of History And I Post It Here! I Will Start Us Off.

 

The Origins Of Halloween

Back When The Celts Were Around They Celebrated New Year's Day On November 1st, This Represented The End Of Summer And The Beggining Of The Harsh Cold Winter And They Represented Winter With Death, On The Night Before They Celebrated Samhain, On October 31st (Samhain) The Celts Belived That The Wall That Separated The Human World From The Spiritual World Opened Up And The Spirits Of The Dead Came Back To Are World Of Reality, This Was Bad News Because They Thought That The Spirits Destroyed There Crops, But It Was Also Good News Because The Spirits Helped The Celtic Preist (Druid) Prodict The Future, The Druid Would Also Build Bonfires To Comemarate The Event, The Celts Also Dressed Up As There Gods So The Spirits Could Fell More At Home, And Finnally The Celts Finished Off Samhain By Sacrificing Animals And Crops To The Gods.

 

(I Know Halloween Was Two Days Ago, But That Don't Matter;))

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Here Is What You Asked For Hunter;)

 

A Brief History On Napoleon Bonaparte

A Brief History On Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the history of Europe. He was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic and Emperor of the First French Empire.

 

Born in Corsica and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France, he rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, Napoleon staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later he crowned himself Emperor of the French. In the first decade of the nineteenth century, he turned the armies of France against every major European power and dominated continental Europe through a series of military victories - epitomised in battles such as Austerlitz and Friedland. He maintained France's sphere of influence by the formation of extensive alliances and the appointment of friends and family members to rule other European countries as French client states.

 

The French invasion of Russia in 1812 marked a turning point in Napoleon's fortunes. His Grande Armée was wrecked in the campaign and never fully recovered. In 1813, the Sixth Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig, invaded France and exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he returned and was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Napoleon spent the last six years of his life under British supervision on the island of Saint Helena, where he died in 1821. The autopsy concluded he died of stomach cancer though Sten Forshufvud and other scientists in the 1960s conjectured that he had been poisoned with arsenic.

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Heres Some More History!

 

The Aztecs

The Aztecs

Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the Late post-Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.

 

Often the term "Aztec" refers exclusively to the people of Tenochtitlan, situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, who called themselves Mexica Tenochca or Colhua-Mexica.

 

Sometimes it also includes the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan's two principal allied city-states, the Acolhuas of Texcoco and the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, who together with the Mexica formed the Aztec Triple Alliance which has also become known as the "Aztec Empire". In other contexts it may refer to all the various city states and their peoples, who shared large parts of their ethnic history as well as many important cultural traits with the Mexica, Acolhua and Tepanecs, and who like them, also spoke the Nahuatl language. In this meaning it is possible to talk about an Aztec civilization including all the particular cultural patterns common for the Nahuatl speaking peoples of the late postclassic period in Mesoamerica.

 

From the 12th century Valley of Mexico was the nucleus of Aztec civilization: here the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the city of Tenochtitlan, was built upon raised islets in Lake Texcoco. The Triple Alliance formed its tributary empire expanding its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquering other city states throughout Mesoamerica.

 

At its pinnacle Aztec culture had rich and complex mythological and religious traditions, as well as reaching remarkable architectural and artistic accomplishments. A particularly striking element of Aztec culture to many was the practice of human sacrifice.

 

In 1521, in what is probably the most widely known episode in the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Hernán Cortés, along with a large number of Nahuatl speaking indigenous allies, conquered Tenochtitlan and defeated the Aztec Triple Alliance under the leadership of Hueyi Tlatoani Moctezuma II; In the series of events often referred to as "The Fall of the Aztec Empire". Subsequently the Spanish founded the new settlement of Mexico City on the site of the ruined Aztec capital.

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I Am 12 Years Old' date=' History Is My Best Subject, And I Use My Brain.[hr']

Maybe you can shed some light on the history of teh British Empire here?

 

Ok;)

 

Stop lying you use Wikipedia or something like that, you can't know something without reading it somewhere

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Ok The History Of The British Empire, The Samuari And Henry VIII's Early Life:)

 

I Will Do All This As Fast As I Can, Also, I Dont Use Wikipedia I Have Loads Of History Books At Home And Somtimes I Use Them If I Forget Stuff.

Right, The Samurai!

 

 

The Samurai

The Samurai

The Samurai was and were the military of japan and are known mostly by people who do not study them for there armour and there swords (katanas). Following a disastrous military engagement with China and Silla, Japan underwent widespread reform. One of the most important was that of the Taika Reform, issued by Prince Naka in 646 AD. This edict introduced Chinese practices and techniques throughout the Japanese aristocracy and bureaucracy.

 

More Will Be On Its Way;)

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