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The house of Plantagenet: The Story of Henry II and Richard I (Coeur de Lion)

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...

The History of the Declaration of Independence – The birth of the American Republic

A document of extraordinary importance for the American statehood is the Declaration of Independence published on the fourth of July 1776,written by Tomas Jefferson,with...

The Early History of Scandinavia – Origins, Vikings and More…

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...

Rise of Christianity and The Early Church

The Rise of Christianity Christianity emerged in the cities of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. The earliest Christians, because they refused to honor...

The First Crusade part IV: From Antioch to Jerusalem

Marching south into Syria On January 13, 1099, Raymond, barefoot and in the attire of a pilgrim, led the army south into Syria. What the...

The First Crusade part III: From Constantinople to Antioch

The City of Nicaea The crusade’s first objective was the city of Nicaea. The capital of the Turkish sultanate, Nicaea was an important strategic location...

Western Europe and the Age of the Cathedrals, 1000–1300 C.E.

Overview of this Period This period witnessed great agricultural expansion, which made possible considerable population growth, which in turn contributed to the rise and growth...

The Eastern Roman Empire in the time of Justinian

The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire, was a polyglot, multiethnic, polysectarian state, at the head of which was the emperor (basileus, autokrator), whose...

The Mystery of the Singing Sand and its Historical Background

Sound-producing sand avalanches Sound-producing sand grains constitute one of nature’s more puzzling and least understood physical phenomena. They occur naturally in two distinct types: booming...

List of 15 Movies About Ancient Rome

XV. Romolo e Remo is a 1961 film based on the legend of Romulus and Remus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoydKmph6JY XIV. The Avenger is a 1962 film Aeneas leads escaped survivors of the Trojan war...

Rise of the Great Persian Empire – How it Become a Dominant Power in the Known World

The Persians Sometime in the 9th century, another Aryan tribe, the Persians, settled in Anshan to the south of Susa. In the early 7th century,...

The Sumerians and the Akkadians – The First Civilizations in the World

THE URUK CULTURE It is uncertain whether the Sumerians were native to Mesopotamia or if they migrated into the region from the east or south...

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