Essays on Discovery

Introduction Many European nations traveled the globe between 1500 and 1900 in search of uncharted territories, raw materials for their factories, and new, more advantageous trading possibilities. They used ships to travel across the vast oceans and seas on their journeys, traveling to Africa and North East Asia. They settled near...

The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who is credited with founding structural anthropology, made the claim that human beings tend to group together either physical or social objects, which explains the dichotomous nature of academic models of society. These models include local-cosmopolitan ones (Merton), folk-urban ones (Redfield), universalist ones (Parsons), and...

In 1492: The Discovery of America and British Colonization In 1492, during one of his exploratory voyages, Christopher Columbus made the initial discovery of the United States of America. This finding ultimately resulted in the British colonization of America in the early 1600s. The various states that were already present in...

The Three Major European Powers and Their Imperial Goals The three major European powers began to show interest in the recently discovered lands after Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World in 1492. The French influence in Canada, the British influence in America, and the Spanish influence in Central and South...

The Voyage of St. Brendan tells the tale of the fabled missionary St. Brendan, an Irish legend, and his crew as they set out for the Promised Land. The beginning of the tale describes how an elderly monk named Barinthus makes a visit to the monastery of Ardfert-Brendan and informs...

The Impact of the Discovery of America The globe underwent a sea change after America was discovered. During the Columbian exchange and the eras before it, America's strategic location, human potential, and resource endowment provided a chance to advance agriculture, trade, societal development, and commerce. The modern United States of America...

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Journey of Adventure and Discovery The novel, The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, is an account of one Muslim man's travels through the eastern hemisphere in order to quench his insatiable thirst for adventure. The book depicts life in the Islamic states of North Africa and...

Many scholars around the globe believe that Africa is the place where humanity first evolved. The findings revealed by various African scholars continue to lend credence to the idea that Africa is the cradle of humanity. The goals of this assignment are to provide a summary of the material covered...

William Foxwell Albright, one of the most renowned academics and archaeologists of his period, is regarded as one of the most productive archaeologists, having contributed significantly to the growth of the current biblical archaeology. He is regarded as a genius by many, largely because he discovered an incredible number of...

Columbus's Ethnographic Interests and Abduction Columbus was successful in making the voyage from Europe to America. Columbus was keenly interested in discovering how the inhabitants of the countries he had discovered lived as an ethnographer. Because he saw the inhabitants of the Indies as timid and primitive, Christopher Columbus came to...

Concerns about inductive reasoning lead to the dilemma of causation and required connection. Hume discovered causal relations on the basis of induction. This is a philosophical reasoning in which inferences are drawn based on past events. Hume's perspective on the concept of cause and effect explains how prior observations serve...

When Slipher noticed inclined absorption lines in the nuclear spectra of the M31 and the Sombrero galaxy he made the discovery that the galaxies rotate in 1914. (Read, Iorio, Agertz, and Fraternali 2016). Wolf therefore also identified the M81 s likely atomic range lines in the same year (McGaugh, Lelli ,...