10. Native American Genocide 1492 - onward (500 years)
The determination of whether a historical event should be considered genocide can be a matter of scholarly...
10. The Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem
The Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem was a Catholic military order founded by crusaders around 1119 at a...
Spread of Buddhism
The practice of Buddhism spread in the centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha through the actions of pilgrims, wandering evangelists, and strong...
Breakup of the Hunnic Empire
On the breakup of the Hunnic Empire (after Nedao, 454), the Ostrogoths settled in Pannonia (their first settlement inside the...
These five centuries mark the first vibrant era of Vietnamese independence. They include rule by three major dynasties, wars with China, and three gruesome...
Vietnam's history is intimately tied, for better or for worse, to its long relationship with China. The impact of Chinese cultural and political forms...
Henry II
Master of a hybrid “empire” (England, Normandy, Anjou, Maine and Touraine by inheritance; Poitou, Aquitaine and Gascony by marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine...
Origins
References in Pytheas, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Procopius, Jordanes. Archaeological remains indicate Roman connections in the 3rd century after Christ, but...
In the Medieval period, every kingdom was at war, everyone was fighting against everyone and it was just a mess.
As technology developed a lot of things changed.
