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VIII. Choose the facts from the text that may help you characterize:

  • Inventions which forced a transformation in the character of warfare during the Middle Ages.

  • The expansion of Muslin invasion throughout Asia and Eastern Europe.

  • The period spanning between the 1648 Peace of Westphalia and the 1789 French Revolution.

  • The industrial age of warfare.

  • The influence of science and technology on modern military warfare.

  • World War I.

  • World War II and the surrender of Japan.

  • Cold War.

IX. Complete the following statements to develop the idea:

  • The invention of stirrups coupled with …

  • The Middle East and North Africa used …

  • The Islamic Arab Empire began …

  • After Gunpowder weapons were first developed …

  • Conscription was employed in …

  • Total war was used in …

  • World War I was sparked by …

  • World War II ensued after …

  • The acme of Cold War …

  • The dropping of the atom bombs led to …

X. Answer the questions on the text:

  1. What had forced a dramatic transformation in the character of warfare from antiquity?

  2. What was firmly implanted in the Medieval period?

  3. What happened after Gunpowder weapons were first developed?

  4. Was conscription employed in industrial or medieval warfare?

  5. What period is also known as Princes' warfare?

  6. Modern warfare distinguishes from those previous by the increase amount of soldiers, doesn’t it?

  7. What countries formed the Central powers and the Allied powers during the World War I?

  8. What led the United States to join the Allied powers during the Second World War?

  9. Why did the Cold War emerge?

XI. Divide the text into logical parts and make up an outline of the text.

XII. Review the text.

XIII. Summarize the contents of Units XXXIV and XXXV in order to present topic “Military History”.

XIV. Speak on the topics:

What were the most notable military events and conflicts during:

  • Ancient history?

  • Medieval history?

  • Modern history?

  • Contemporary history?

XV. Write en essay on the topic “The influence of military conflicts on Ukrainian history”.

History in faces Historian

Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time. A historian may be someone who compiles sources from the times prior to his own, or someone who archives the history of his own time for the purposes of preservation for future generations. In this, someone who writes an account of the times is a historian just as much as someone who concerns themselves only with the events prior to them.

There are a number of different branches of history, but the general accepted list of historians begins with two ancient Greeks, Herodotus and Thucydides. To be sure there are previous accounts, but they are neither continuous nor are they systematic. Historians do not discriminate between the 'amateur' or the professional, really the term has no meaning. Anyone who compiles together an account is a historian in their own right irrespective of their professional qualifications. This is reflected in the very late phenomenon of professional historians in the mid to late 19th century. Prior to that, most historians did not do history as their primary occupation and history was not taught as a discipline separate from the others by which one could earn a specific degree. So we must be very aware of this when assessing the merits of historians prior to the professional period, that professionalism is not necessary a guarantor of accuracy.