Roman sculpture was an extremely significant artistic manifestation in the civilization of Ancient Rome. It can be said that it is a mixture of classical perfection with characteristics of...
The 1950s became known as the “Golden Years”. It's a decade of technological revolutions with obvious social implications, especially when we consider the point of view...
The Coliseum of Rome or Flavian Amphitheater is a grandiose historical and architectural monument with a cylindrical shape that is located in the capital of Italy: Rome. It was built in Antiquity...
The Fertile Crescent is called the “Cradle of Civilization”, since several peoples of antiquity (around 10,000 BC) C.) developed in this region, hence its great importance in...
The Hundred Years War was a long and discontinued war between England and France, which took place between 1337 and 1453, motivated by political and economic reasons. Main Causes The cause...
The Yalta Conference or Crimean Conference represented a set of meetings that took place in the year 1945, when the second world war ended. The central objective of this conference...
The Liberal Revolution of Porto was a movement that took place in 1820, in the city of Porto, Portugal. Among several demands, the members demanded the promulgation of a Constitution and the...
The Aztecs formed one of the most important civilizations that inhabited pre-Columbian America. They began to occupy the Mexican plateau at the end of the 12th century, coming from what is now California,...
The period of the Terror (1792-1794), during the French Revolution, was marked by religious and political persecution, civil wars, and guillotine executions. At that time, France was...
The Avis Revolution was a political and military conflict that took place between 1383 and 1385 between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Castile. Historical Context The formation of the Portuguese national state...
The Germanic peoples are Indo-European ethnic groups originally established in Northern Europe. The greatest source of knowledge that we have of the Germans dates from the government of Julius Caesar (100 BC. Ç -...
The best known sculptures are the Greek ones. They achieved a perfection never before achieved, so they left a legacy and inspire artists to this day. They were inspired by the sculptures...
The Roman Empire lasted from 27 a. Ç. to 476 and was the period when Rome dominated much of Europe, North Africa and also parts of the Middle East. The time of emperors begins after...
Medieval Culture is a set of philosophical, literary, religious, scientific manifestations, which mixes factors from the Greco-Roman and Germanic cultures, in a synthesis permeated by...
Medieval theater is one that was produced in the medieval era (5th to 15th century). During this period, medieval theater can be classified into two aspects: sacred theater, related to...
The Indian Civilization is one of the oldest on the planet and there is archaeological evidence that it started 75,000 years ago. Its formation took place along the Indus River that was inhabited by...
Terrorism is violent acts committed by individuals or groups in order to cause fear and material damage to a State or a population. The term arose during the French Revolution, in order to designate...
The Commercial Renaissance was one of the strands of the Italian Renaissance, a cultural, economic and political movement that emerged in Italy in the 14th century. Alongside the Cultural and Urban Renaissance, the...
The Archaic Period, between the years of 800 a. Ç. and 500 a. a., corresponds to the third historical period of Ancient Greece, soon after the Homeric period. This time has profound changes...
The Meiji Era (Regime or Enlightened Government) meant the first epoch of the Empire in Japan and which remained between the years 1868-1912. It was extremely important to the development process...
The Assyrians were Semitic peoples who lived north of Mesopotamia in the region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Assyrian empire was formed after the fall of the Akkadian empire. They became known for...
Mona Lisa, originally La Gioconda (in Italian), is one of the most famous paintings in the world and Leonardo da Vinci's most celebrated work. It was produced in the 16th century and is currently exhibited in the...
Before the arrival of the Europeans, Africa had rich and fabulous kingdoms. In antiquity we have the empires of Carthage and Egypt; and in the Middle Ages, the constitution of the Empire of Mali and the...
The Triple Entente was an alliance formed by England, Russia and France in order to resist and contest the Triple Alliance. It appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1907. The Triple Entente and the...
The Babylonian Empire is one of the main periods of the ancient world and was located in the region known today as Iraq, in the lands that cross the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Split in two...
The unification of Italy was a process of union between the various kingdoms that made up the Italian Peninsula, after the expulsion of the Austrians. It took place in the second half of the 19th century and ended...
Perestroika and Glasnost were the reformist policies carried out by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, from 1985-1991. Unstocked store in Russia on...
Comedy is one of the theatrical genres written generally in verse, which begins in Ancient Greece. It is a humorous and burlesque critical genre that satirizes different aspects of society...
By Gypsies we mean a group of people who are nomads, divided into clans that roamed Europe. Gypsies are far from constituting a single and homogeneous people, and are divided into...
The transition from feudalism to capitalism took place in the 15th century in Europe. This moment marked the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. What was feudalism? Remember that the...
The Statue of Liberty (in English, The Statue of Liberty) is a large monument located in the United States. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. One of the most famous...
Industrial society is the result of workers' struggles in search of reforms that humanize capitalism. The industrial society was, little by little, transforming itself in search of improvements...
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting held from the 17th of July to the 2nd of August 1945 in Germany. It gets its name because it took place in the German city of Potsdam. Objectives of...
Concentration camps were used by the Nazi regime to imprison thousands of people in the 1930s and 1940s. At least 20,000 fields were used between 1933 and 1945, in Germany and in...
Bourgeois revolutions are revolts carried out by the bourgeois class. The economic and social aspirations of the bourgeoisie, to the detriment of absolutism, were responsible for these...
The Trench War (1915-1917) was the phase of World War I when this military tactic was widely used. What was it? The Trench War lasted two years and was the...
The Puritan Revolution, also called the English Civil War, transformed England's distribution and form of power in the 17th century. With the Glorious Revolution these movements marked the...
The Classic Period corresponds to centuries VI - IV a. Ç. and it is one of the periods by which Ancient Greece is divided; the others are: Pre-Homeric period (20th - 12th century BC C.), Homeric...
The pre-Homeric period corresponds to the first phase of Ancient Greece that occurred during 2000 BC. C and 1200 BC Ç.. Periods of Ancient Greece It is worth remembering that the history of Greece...
Roman civilization originated with the expansion and consolidation of Rome's power over the Italian Peninsula and neighboring territories. Origin Roman civilization is a mixture of...
The slave trade represents the phase in which black Africans were brought from Africa to be slaves. The trade of African blacks as slaves was one of the main activities...
The Medical Wars, in which they battled Greeks against Persians, took place in ancient Greece in the V century; Ç. and is also known as the Persian, Persian, Medes, Greco-Persian or Greco-... Wars
The “Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula” or “Christian Retake” was an Iberian Christian movement of military and religious nature, which pitted Christians and Muslims in a secular war for...
The Inquisition was a political-religious movement that took place between the 12th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas. The goal was to seek repentance for those considered heretics by...
The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World represent the seven monuments considered the most important and beautiful according to their history and architecture. They were chosen by the Greeks in antiquity. Pyramids...
The Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation, was a movement of restructuring of the Catholic Church that culminated in 1545 with the Council of Trent. His goal was to reform the Catholic Church itself and...
The Code of Hammurabi is a set of laws that were created around 1780 BC. Ç. in Mesopotamia. It receives this name since it is associated with the sixth Sumerian king, founder of the I Empire...
The Mayan calendar, Haab, has 365 days divided into 18 months that contain 20 days each. Likewise, the Haab is combined with a sacred calendar, the Tzolkin, with 260 days. Origin O...
The Constitutional Monarchy or Parliamentary Monarchy, is a form of government in which the king is the Head of State, hereditary or electively, but his powers are limited by...
The Frankish peoples were made up of a group of Germanic tribes that inhabited the lower and middle Rhine River around the 3rd century AD. Ç. The Franks were the most powerful political organization...
