Over the course of several centuries, the inhabitants gradually settled down and took up agriculture. Introduction The...
History
The Wielbark culture was named after a village where a burial place with over 3,000 tombs. Introduction...
Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations, making its first inhabitants more genetically diverse and adapted to...
Even before the 1952 and 1953 outbreaks, labs had been worked diligently to find a cure for...
For nearly 50 years academic and popular writers ignored the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A hundred years...
Jewish life did not solely consist of worrying about one’s day-to-day survival. Summary Jewish culture reflects the...
The urban region of Hamburg represents a special case in the modern religious history of German Jewry...
The story of King Solomon begins with his father, King David, and his mother, Bathsheba. Introduction According...
Allegedly around 1000 BCE, David was the eighth son (and youngest) of Jesse, from the tribe of...
Jewish would-be artists began arriving in Paris in the decade before the First World War. Jews were...
It was an era and a culture that was both misogynist and racist, in which Jews from...
Buddhists performed pilgrimages and other rituals at Borobudur until the temple was abandoned as many Javanese converted...
Despite its grandeur and rich exterior ornamentation, the Javanese abandoned Prambanan within 100 years of its completion...
Goryeo (Koryo) ruled ancient Korea from 918 CE to 1392 CE. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Goryeo (Koryo)...
Pyongyang was the capital of several successive ancient Korean kingdoms. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Located on the...
How two female courtiers vied for influence over Queen Anne. One of the challengers at this year’s...
She wears a white satin dress, pearls and a ruby ring and has a slight smile —...
The Glorious Revolution is considered by some to be one of the most important events in the...
When Magna Carta was created, England had endured 16 years of John’s kingship – a rule based...
King Herod had a substantial architectural heritage to his name in the Levant by the time of...
Rome’s ruthless upstart was really a savvy insider, until fortune turned her back on him. On October...
Bombing bridges and railway lines over which both deported Jews and German troops were transported could have...
The appeasement policy pursued by Britain and France was founded on the premise that Germany was maltreated...
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, urban settlements in Italy generally enjoyed a greater continuity...
Communes are first recorded in the late 11th and early 12th centuries. Introduction Medieval communes in the European Middle Ages had...
Due to its agricultural nature, her cult had tremendous appeal to the average Roman citizen, more so...
Mystery religions formed one of three types of Hellenistic religion. Introduction Mystery religions, sacred mysteries or simply mysterieswere religious schools...
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister...
It was the single largest extension of voting rights in our nation’s history. The woman suffrage movement...
As the presidential election of 1828 approached, the nation’s emotions were running high. As the presidential election...