Julius Caesar was born in the year 100 BC, into a Roman patrician family. He climbed the political and military ranks remarkably, building a reputation...
The meeting between the Native Americans and the European settlers took place for the first time in 1492, when Christopher Columbus landed in America. This...
The time of Cleopatra was marked by major political and military upheavals. Egypt was then a crucial stake for the emerging powers of Rome and...
Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791 to denounce the lack of consideration for...
The French Empire, under the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, had reached the peak of its power in the early 19th century. With a territory extending...
Apartheid in South Africa was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that was in place from 1948 to 1994. This discriminatory political regime was based...
Leonardo da Vinci was a man of exceptional versatility. His talents extended to fields as diverse as painting, sculpture, anatomy, botany, engineering, and many more. He left...
Hatshepsut acquired power as pharaoh based on a mixture of dynastic legitimacy and administrative competence. As the daughter of pharaoh Thutmose I and the wife...
Genghis Khan, whose real name was Temüjin, was born around 1162 in the region of present-day Mongolia. Coming from a noble but modest family, he...
During the Second World War, Anne Frank kept a diary while hiding with her family in Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution. After the arrest of...