1) Housecarl:
Huskarls were the bodyguards of leaders in Medieval Scandinavia and England. This elite unit was the last defense for the powerful individual that...
An often-asked question in history is which country, from any time period, with its current or previous territorial hold and before, during or after...
1) Raids / pillaging / marauding:
Often seen as the staple of the European, North African and Middle Eastern trade routes, roads connecting towns and...
1)Cataphracts:
Cataphracts were soldiers first witnessed in history in Scythia, Messagetae or commonly referred to in early antiquity as the nomadic peoples that would be...
The Reconquista, a Spanish and Portuguese attempt at reconquest was a period of around 750 years in which several Christian kingdoms slowly expanded themselves...
1)Round shield:
The most common shield in history, having examples in every corner of the world in antiquity, is the round shield. Shaped to resemble...
1)United States of America:
The Star-Spangled Banner dates it origins to the American Revolution. The revolution itself had begun as a protest to the ever-growing...
Typography was invented twice: once in China and Korea and in medieval Europe. In China, printing was invented, according to some data (Julien, "Documents...
