Spears and Javelins
Throughout most of the history of the Empire, Roman infantry soldiers were characterized by the use of a single weapon, the pilum....
The Berbers are the earliest known inhabitants of northwestern Africa’s Mediterranean coast, plains, and mountain ranges. Living as nomadic herders or farmers in Morocco’s Atlas...
The originally Chinese term samurai means “a person who serves in close attendance to nobility.” Its original pronunciation was saburau, which later became saburai....
Did Christianity had a well-defined concept of a holy war?
Unlike Islam, Christianity had no well-defined concept of holy war before the Middle Ages. Christ...
Typography was invented twice: once in China and Korea and in medieval Europe. In China, printing was invented, according to some data (Julien, "Documents...
