Alaric was born on the island of Peuce, a name given by the Greeks and Romans to a large island at the mouth of the Danube River, in the region of Dacia, currently Romania, around the year 370, after Christ. he became a soldier, fighting for the Roman Empire, standing out for the help given to Emperor Theodosius I, in the year 394, in order to defeat, in the battle of the Frigid, the usurper, Arbogastes, of origin Frank.
The future emperor Flavius Zeno was born in Isauria, a region in the center of Asia Minor, whose inhabitants were subjects of the Romans, in the year 425, his original name being Tarasis Kodisas Rusombladadiotes. Tarasis became a heroic warrior, and began to serve Emperor Leo I the Thracian, from the year 460.
The Numidians, a word that in Greek means, nomad, were Berber tribes, polytheists, who lived in the kingdom of Numidia, in North Africa, in present-day Algeria, a place that recently discovered civilization, in the VII before Christ, with the arrival of the Phoenicians.
Theodoric the Great was born in Pannonia, an ancient region located in Central Europe, near what is now the city of Vienna, on May 12, 454, his father being the Ostrogothic leader Theodomir. The Ostrogoths were a Germanic people, considered barbarian by the Romans, for being outside the borders of their empire, that is, being foreigners, and having customs that they believed were rustic and primitive.
In the history of Athens we can recognize three phases, in terms of their forms of government: the monarchical (with power concentrated in the king or basileus) the aristocratic (with power concentrated in the eupatridas or nobles) and the democratic one, (popular government).
The Constitution of Sparta, the Great Retra, one of humanity's first unwritten bodies of law, was apparently the work of a character shrouded in legend, named Lycurgus, a tireless traveler (who toured Crete and Egypt) that he would be a Spartan regent, of his nephew, who, due to his young age, could not assume as king.
The rich history of the polis of Athens, in its beginnings it was governed by a monarchy, which soon saw its power limited with the creation of other institutions, such as the polemarchs, who directed the military forces, and the Archonate, formed by magistrates, who were elected among the eupatriates, by the Areopagus, which was another institution, with 50 members, made up of former archons.
We have already described the eight medieval Crusades. Now we are going to deepen its causes and consequences. Causes Although the immediate cause of the First Crusade was the Council of Clemont held in 1095, where Pope Urban II called for the reconquest of Jerusalem that had fallen into the hands of the Turks, who had appropriated it in the year 1076 and to help the Byzantine emperor who cried out for help against the Muslim invasion, which was seen as a great possibilit
To understand the reasons that led to the enactment of these severe laws, which became a symbol of strictness and harshness, calling in the future, draconian, those rules that had that characteristic, we have to situate ourselves in the historical context.
The one who would be the Emperor Antoninus Pius, was born southeast of Rome, in Lanuvium, under the name of Tito Aurelio Fulvio Boyonio Arrio Antonio, on September 19 of the year 86; he was raised by his grandfather, after the early death of his father, and when his grandfather died, he inherited his immense fortune, although this did not take away his humility.
After the English invasions, the Creoles strengthened their feeling of unity, and felt they possessed a military force capable of fighting for their political and economic rights, attacked by Spain that did not allow them to hold public office and by the commercial monopoly that restricted them to a single market, favoring only the interests of the Metropolis.
According to the theory of evolution, formulated by the English scientist Charles Darwin, British naturalist, author of the book “Origin of Species”, written in 1859, all species, including man, have undergone transformations, since their original form, when they first appeared on Earth.
The colony in America began with the European conquest from the fifteenth century, which imposed its fashion in that part of the world. In the middle of the Renaissance, luxurious and embroidered outfits were used. The men wore short suits, fancy hats, and pointed shoes.
The Republic of China was established in 1911, with a serious internal conflict, which consisted of the struggle between two sides of opposing ideologies. On the one hand, the nationalist party or kuomintang, in charge of power, which tried to create a strong, centralized and militarized state, but the impositions of the Treaty of Versailles, which recognized Japan's dominance over the Chinese base of Kiao-Tchen, did look for a way out by seeing an alliance with the Soviet
The Greeks, like most ancient peoples, were polytheists (they believed in many gods) to whom they assigned human form (anthropomorphism) and attributed virtues and defects of people, differentiating themselves from the rest of the men, for their immortal character, and for being alien to misery, illness and old age.
From the 4th century, the so-called Byzantine art was developed in the city of Byzantium, which spread throughout the Eastern Roman Empire, from the 6th century. Essentially religious, his portraits appear immutable and static, with exact biblical reproductions, according to the control of the church.
Sunism represents the most widespread current of Islam, the other two are Shiism and Jarichí, the latter (variant of the second), less developed. The Islamic religion was born with Muhammad, considered by Muslims to be the last of the prophets.
Usama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Ladin , was born on March 10, 1957 in Djedda (Riyadh), Saudi Arabia. He was the son of the Yemeni SheikhMohammad bin Ladenof whom he was the seventeenth son of a large brood of fifty-four. His mother, of Syrian origin, was one of the eleven wives that Sheikh Muhammad had.
Located in Palestine, the Hebrews organized their lives according to certain peculiar characteristics, which shaped their culture. RELIGION The most peculiar aspect of this town is given by religion, which marked the rest of its human manifestations.
The pilgrimage to Mecca is the fifth and last fundamental pillar of Islam, which is mandatory for the faithful. The other four are the profession of faith -conversion to Islam through the shahada-, prayer -five times a day and in the direction of Mecca-, almsgiving, and fasting during Ramadan.
Charles Darwin, a naturalist of English nationality, lived between 1809 and 1882. His work "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Existence" published on 24 November 1859, revolutionized the concepts of the time and opened a field of controversial discussion.
The territory of the Malvinas Islands, located in the extreme south-east of the Argentine Republic, was discovered in 1520 by one of the ships of the Magellan expedition, whose mission was to find an interoceanic passage that communicate the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific, being Spanish property, according to the delimitation made by the papal bulls.
The Umayyads were a dynasty of caliphs of the Arab Empire, whose stay in power lasted between the years 661 and 750. Fourteen caliphs belonged to the Umayyad family, of short reigns, usually because they reached the highest dignity elders in the Islamic world, to which political and military power as well as religious power corresponded.
This event took place on July 29, 1966, and as the setting five faculties belonging to the UBA (University of Buenos Aires) in the Argentine Republic, during the de facto government of Lieutenant General Juan Carlos Onganía, who assumed power after a military coup against the democratic president, the radical Arturo Illia, which took place on June 28, 1966.
In few places in the world are religion and political power as closely linked as in Saudi Arabia. The dynasty that gives its name to the country, the Al-Sauds, and the Muslim religious current called Wahhabism have been inseparably linked since the very creation of the kingdom.
After the battle of Arroyo Grande, which occurred on December 1842, where the federal troops from Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos, led by Manuel Oribe, former president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, defeated the Argentine Unitarians and the Colorados Uruguayans, led by the Uruguayan president Fructuoso Rivera, Corrientes remained under the control of Rosas, governor of Buenos Aires;
We will refer in this entry to the battle of Sipe Sipe or also called Viluma, fought on November 29, 1815 during the Argentine independence, which ended in a sad defeat, with serious consequences for the United Provinces of the River de la Plata, a name that had replaced that of the Viceroy alty of the Río de la Plata, since they were lost to the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, those of Upper Peru, which remained in the hands of the Viceroy alty of Peru.
The Liberating Revolution, indicates in its own name the idea of change and liberation, but not all changes are positive, nor does all liberation imply the idea of ending oppression, since the new situation may be worse than the previous.
Peronism is the political party that emerged from the hands of Juan Domingo Perón and the unions in 1945, first called the Labor Party; and later, it was only called Peronist, when there was a merger with other parties, to later adopt the denomination of justicialista, when the 1971 law prevented parties from bearing the name of any person.
The Battle of Boquerón took place between September 7 and 29 of the same month, between Bolivia and Paraguay in the March of the Chaco War. This war confronted both countries between 1932 and 1935 for control of the Chaco Boreal (or Gran Chaco) .
The Battle of Yungay took place on January 20, 1839. This battle considered the dream of the Confederation destroyed. The Confederate Army (Peruvian-Bolivian) under the command of Andrés de Santa Cruz and the United Restorer Army (Chilean-Peruvian) under the leadership of Manuel Bulnes.
Bolivia has an ancient history that goes back to before the Spanish conquest. The Bolivian territory was inhabited by the Aymara peoples who lived on the shores of Lake Titicaca, although their influence extended to the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
The overseas expansion, initiated in the fifteenth century by Spain and Portugal, European countries privileged by their access to the sea, gave rise to disputes over the ownership of the conquered territories resolved by the Treaty of Tordesillas of the year 1494.
The area in question The Chaco Boreal is an area of approximately 500,000 km², located north of the Pilcomayo River, in the Gran Chaco region, on the border between Bolivia (place to which it belonged during the viceroy alty of Peru), Argentina and Paraguay (to whose Cabildo de Asunción the Spaniards had granted power up to the Yaurú and Parapetí rivers).
Portugal, like Spain, had to endure the Muslim invasion for many years. Once this problem was solved, they dedicated themselves to intensifying their trade looking for new markets. The trade of the Portuguese with the East Indies was weakened by the advance of the Arabs who began to monopolize the trade in the Indian Ocean.
The Manchus were the ones who put an end to the rule of the Ming dynasty, establishing the Qing dynasty, the last dynasty in China. They came from a region known as Manchuria, northeast of the Great Wall of China. Their language was Tungú, using the Mongolian alphabet to write;
Kim Il Sung was born on April 15, 1912 in Mangyondae, Korea, which was then a Japanese protectorate. He was Prime Minister (1948-1972) and President from 1972 until his death Kim Sŏng-ju, his real name, whose parents were opponents of Japan, studied Chinese since he was a child, having to leave his hometown in 1920 as a result of the exile need of the parents of him.
The Chinese gave us inventions that revolutionized the world. One of the oldest and most important was paper. Its origin is legendary, dating back to the year 106, its paternity being attributed to a Chinese minister named Tsai Lun, who, inspired by wasps, made the invention using rags, bark, hemp and fishing nets.
Genghis Khan was a prince of Mongol origin who founded the first Mongol empire by unifying the nomadic tribes belonging to this ethnic group in North Asia. It actually had a real name which was that it means “The best steel”. It was from his reign that the Mongols began a series of victories and conquests expanding from the central sector of the European continent to South Asia.
The origins of the Yuan dynasty are based on the Mongol empire that was founded by Chingis Khan. It was a great empire that expanded to the very gates of Western Europe. When Ögödei Jan died, the maximum expansion had been achieved and such a large territory was only possible to govern by subdividing it into four parts that were awarded to the heirs of Chingis and Ögödei.