By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Regional, inter-regional and international trade was a common feature of the Roman world....
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Even citizens found their city confusing. A city – a free city – was where a man...
Chamberlain and Wilson had aimed to prevent war entirely; instead they made it almost inevitable. In 1941,...
With the stroke of a pen 75 years ago, two men changed the world and sealed the...
Establishing a nation in which the people were sovereign and the aristocracy had no place. The North...
They were part of the Armenian millet until the Tanzimat reforms in the nineteenth century equalized all...
The Byzantine Empire had an important cultural legacy, both on the Orthodox Church and on the revival...
The war ended in a stalemate with the border between North and South Korea near where it...
A brief introduction to famous African rulers and their impact on medieval and Renaissance European culture. By Dr....
They formed the king’s personal bodyguard and were also considered the shock troops of the infantry in...
From sun dials to atomic clocks, we still don’t have a perfect time measuring device. The time...
The blood moon myths are many and varied, but, at the end of the day, it’s just...
The Emancipation Proclamation Inspired New Year’s celebrations that endure to this day. For young Ed McCree, enslaved...
American colonists actually celebrated New Year on March 25th! By Eryn Dion While modern day New Year’s...
His decree ordered that Russia observe calendar years from the birth of Christ. Peter the Great’s reign...
Medieval church courts in York shows that the same January divorce pattern prevailed as far back as...
How a primitive idea turned into an object that is used globally today. By Dr. Fahd Khan,...
For the source of his story, Arthur Miller looked back to the Salem witch trials of 1692....
The Enlightenment of the late 17th and the 18th century called for the re-examination of classical concepts....
The kingdom of Kongo, with a population of well over 2 million people at its peak, prospered...
The Mali Empire was the largest and richest empire yet seen in West Africa to that time....
A 2,700-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Iraq depicts the demon that the ancient Assyrians thought caused epilepsy....
Hepatic regeneration was well known to ancient Greeks, and this natural ability was established in the tales...
The attack set in motion a series of events that transformed the United States into a global...
Examining the contributions of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alfred Thayer Mahan to the conscious creation of an...
The Delhi Sultanate, which lasted from 1206 to 1526, is known as a period of cultural intermixing....
The temples at Khajuraho, including the Lakshmana temple, have become famous for their amorous images. Ideal Female...
The relief is accompanied by text in three languages – Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian. Introduction The...
Persian culture influenced the Greeks and many other civilizations, and its effects still resonate around the world...
Meet the printmaker and activist, whose images of loss, injustice, and poverty resonate today. By Christina Aube...