Louis XIV , nicknamed the Great » or « the Sun King was King of France from 1643 to 1715. During his long reign, the most famous of the Bourbons waged numerous and costly wars across Europe, while modernizing the administration and intervening in the economic development of the kingdom. Having chose
They became famous as one of the best bankers in the world. According to legend, in a few generations they rose from a simple charcoal burner to the position of the finest family in Italy. Growing in strength, they gained one of the greatest fortunes in history. What were the Medici spending their m
In the world of racehorses, there is a race called King George VI &Queen Elizabeth S, which is the highest race in the world along with the Prix de lArc de Triomphe in France. With an eternal longing for all horsemen, Japanese horses have never won the race, in which famous horses from all over th
At the beginning of the 17th century, the situation in Castile, from where until then the men and taxes that Carlos I and Felipe II needed for their hegemonic and religious policy in Europe had come from, was no longer the same as that of the previous century. It was exhausted, bankrupt, overwhelm