Hello, my name is Charles Edward Hurst. Many have asked me to write a history of our world. Considering what I study, I chose to answer the calls. This is the forward to the book, with much more depth to be found in its pages. I know that beginning a book of our civilization well […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Charles. Many people called Africa the Dark Continent over the millennia, a reference both the color of the people who lived there, and the mysterious its jungles kept from outsiders. Africa has opened up to us in the last four centuries, shedding the mystery and stepping into the light of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Charles. America has a long history of civilizations dating from the last Ice Age to modern times. We have pyramids and roads as old as Egypt, and many of our cultures have been the largest and most powerful nations of their time. Our history is far longer and far greater than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Charles. The rise of Europe changed the destiny of our world forever. Europe formed Western Civilization as we know it, it colonized the world, and it controlled the world for centuries. It is natural that Europe considers itself the center of the universe. It is interesting then that in the modern […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Charles. Asia is the largest continent on Earth, and home to more great civilizations than any other in the history our world. It is fitting that this continent still dominates our politics to this day. Home to two great alliances and two non-aligned powers, more Asians have colonized the stars than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Charles. The Australian Federation is a unique nation in the modern worlds. They are the only nation that comprises an entire continent, the only nation in the Western Alliance having a direct border with the Chinese, and one of the few nations with full membership in both the Western Alliance and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression, The Cybernetic Wars, and the rise of the Chinese and Russian blocks helped create the world we live in now. Some histories say that it all started when America defaulted on her foreign debt and kicked off the Second Great Depression, but that is simplistic thinking. The fact is that The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t know anybody who lived through The Second Great Depression when I was young. Or if they had, they didn’t advertise. That’s Northern Minnesota for yah. We all have history, so why talk about it? I’ve met a few people after The War came who did, and the thing that gets me is that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression came as s surprise to most people of the time. They had not listened to the economists who said the deficit spending was unsustainable. Or the foreign policy experts or the businessmen who said that America could not maintain her position in the world without making hard choices. They thought the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression started when the American government defaulted on its foreign loans. That’s the standard lesson taught in history. It’s more accurate to say that a newly elected Congress stopped paying the interest on certain foreign loans to geopolitical foes in an effort to balance the yearly budget. When China reacted by demanding […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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