Over the years, Julius Caesar accumulates key positions in Rome: victorious general in Gaul, consul, and then appointed dictator for life. By continually achieving military...
At the beginning of the 17th century, English colonists land on the shores of what is now called Virginia, with the aim of settling permanently...
After the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, Cleopatra and Mark Antony found themselves in a catastrophic situation. Octavian was becoming the strongman of Rome, thus ending...
The year 1791, we are in the midst of the French Revolution, a time when things are really changing in France. We have just adopted...
At the start of the 1800s, Europe is bubbling over: Napoleonic France already dominates a large part of the continent thanks to its dramatic military...
Apartheid was a political system implemented in South Africa starting in 1948, based on strict segregation according to racial criteria. Black, mixed-race, and Asian populations...
Leonardo was a guy who could do almost everything. Painting, sculpture, anatomy, engineering, botany, astronomy, architecture: nothing seemed beyond his abilities. One morning he could...
Hatshepsut lived around 1500 B.C., during the 18th dynasty of the New Kingdom, one of the most prosperous and powerful periods of ancient Egypt. Daughter...
Genghis Khan used speed and surprise as his favorite weapons. His army was mainly composed of perfectly trained mounted archers, capable of shooting accurately while...
During World War II, the Nazis imposed an ultra-violent anti-Semitic policy in the occupied territories. As early as the 1930s, Hitler's Germany enacted discriminatory laws...
