When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492, he changed the world forever. And thoroughly! This so-called “discovery” of America by Columbus is viewed as one of the possible endpoints of the Middle Ages, with good reason. What is much less clear is how his rides should be evaluated in the
According to Dion Cassius (LXX.3.1), the Roman troops would have already suffered the plague in 164 AD. in Armenia, but for Lucian of Samosata (Quomodo Hist . . . . conscr . . . . 15) the outbreak of pestilence would have originated in Ethiopia, whence it passed into Egypt, to then propagate into As
The Spanish Civil War broke out, in fact, much earlier than the military coup on July 17, 1936. It was a conflict where propaganda, on both sides, played an important role and many myths of which conflict still exist and plague the historical truth. At the end of May 1937, the republic looked partic
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In 1326 Edward II reigned in England, son of the famous Longshanks, Edward I, the king who defeated William Wallace and had the legend Hammer of the Scots engraved on his tomb . Edward IIs reign had gone from disaster to disaster. In France and Scotland mil