Humboldt almost invented the electric battery– in fact, he came very close. Alexander von Humboldt was born...
History
During one attack in 1393, Charles could not remember his name, did not know he was king,...
He is traditionally viewed as the second of the so-called “Mad Emperors,” the first being Caligula. Introduction...
He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh (Epic of Kings), the national epic of the Persian-speaking world....
Cyrus was far different from other kings of his time in the ways he chose to rule....
Aristotle argued that there were six general ways in which societies could be organized under political rule....
Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states. Introduction The Constitution of the...
A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther...
A dynasty was considered just and worthy to rule only as long as it upheld divine will,...
Censors were elected every four or five years by the comitia centuriata, the assembly of Rome with...
Grady wanted to promote northern investment in the South, and he was willing to ignore lynchings and...
The Wasp meted out ridicule to a myriad of caricatured subjects, from senators and presidents to Chinese...
Each generation, each epoch, has seen themselves apocalyptically, albeit with great differences as to what the actual...
Created between 1377 and 1382, it is the oldest surviving French tapestry. Introduction The Apocalypse Tapestry is...
Examining 18th-century satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his most famous play, The School for Scandal. Introduction Perhaps...
Examining Mexico’s international strategy of economic development in these turbulent years. Introduction: Latin America’s Development Strategies versus...
In the time of Kievan Rus’, goldwork embroidery flourished in the lives of the feudal elite and...
The development of extensive trade routes allowed Russia to grow in size and power. The Viking Influence...
By 600 CE, the Slavs had split linguistically into southern, western, and eastern branches. Introduction The East...
Their annihilation on the Raudian plain was not the last time they would clash arms with Rome....
Darius thoroughly revised the Persian system of administration and also the legal code. Introduction Darius the Great...
While Cyrus seems to have accepted the crown of Media, by 546 BCE, he had officially assumed...
A linguist considers whether saving languages is sentimental or critical. I met the last speaker of Naati...
Tattoo patterns and art on the face and body differed from one Polynesian island group to the...
The history of slave rebels and resistance in the Caribbean is a rich and complicated story. Marissa:...
It was justified by reference to historical myths that nobles and servile peasants were separated by courage...
A few people have had the luxury of enjoying representative governments in human history. Most of the...
Submarines played a major role in Word War I. But the first submersible was actually used, though...
A medieval world where caves and underground shelters provided refuge from raiders, allowing a threatened civilization to...
Complex societies took the forms of larger agricultural villages, cities, city-states, and states, which shared many features....