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Zoroastrianism: Religion of the Ancient Persians

Zoroastrianism, or Masdeism, became the religion of the Persian state in the sixth century BC. Ç. This belief was replaced by Islam only around the 7th century AD. Ç. after the fall of the Empire...

Iliad is an epic poem that was written in the 9th century BC. a., by the Greek poet Homero. The poem is developed around the War of Troy, that probably occurred in century XIII a. Ç. Homer...

German unification took place under the resistance of European nations who feared the formation of a great power with powers to dictate the European economy. The process took place between 1828 and 1888...

English absolutism begins with King Henry VII of the Tudor dynasty in 1485 and ends with King Charles II of the Stuart family in 1685. With the support of the bourgeoisie, Henrique Tudor, crowned as...

Annelies Marie Frank, known as Anne Frank, was a German girl of Jewish origin, author of the book "The Diary of Anne Frank". The book tells the drama of the daily family life of eight people who...

The Society of Jesus or Jesuit Order, is a religious order founded in 1534 and which operates to this day in several countries. Foundation The founder of the Society of Jesus, Inácio de...

Ammonites, Amorites, amom or sons of amom correspond to one of the ancient civilizations that inhabited the region of Mesopotamia. Semitic people, the Ammonites were warriors and known to be...

The Etruscans represent one of the ancient civilizations that inhabited the Italian peninsula from the 9th century BC onwards. C., before the Romans. They developed an original culture, and for the...

Clientelism is a relationship of exchange of favors between the citizen and the politician. Its origins go back to the Roman Republic and can be found in various spheres of government power. Origin...

Tupac Amaru II was a Peruvian revolutionary whose trajectory directly interfered in the process of independence in Spanish America. He was the last king of the royal Inca dynasty. He was born in 1738 in...

The Battle of Stalingrad took place between 17 July 1942 and 2 February 1943. It was the biggest and bloodiest battle of World War II and it changed the course of the conflict after victory...

The March to the West in the United States was characterized by territorial expansion towards the Pacific in the second half of the 19th century. This growth was achieved through wars,...

The Islamic State is a self-proclaimed state by terrorists of different nationalities. It is not recognized by any government, not even the UN. Currently, they dominate cities in Syria and Iraq, and...

The name Opium Wars is given to two armed conflicts registered in China in the 19th century. Conflicts were fought between Western countries and the Qing Dynasty, which remained in the...

Mao Tse-Tung (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) was a Chinese communist leader, dictator and revolutionary. He participated in the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, in 1921, in Shanghai,...

Odyssey is an epic poem written by the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem, created probably between the IX and VII centuries; C., narrates adventures of the hero Ulysses, during 10 years after...

The Gulf War was a military conflict that took place in the Middle East in the late 1990s and early 1991. It involved Iraq and an International Coalition sanctioned by the Organization of Nations...

Bedouins are an ethnic group that inhabits the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa, in regions of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt. They constitute about 10% of the...

The First French Republic was proclaimed on September 29, 1792, and a new calendar was created marking the year I of the Republic and the Year of Freedom IV. The king is Louis XVI is taken to...

Trotskyism is a left-wing ideology based on the ideas of Leon Trotsky (1879-1940). Characteristics Trotskyism emerged from the reflections made by Leon Trotsky on Marxism and the...

The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763, with the aim of ending the Seven Years' War. Great Britain, France, Portugal and Spain were signatories. Definition It was an agreement of...

The Dorians or Dorians are one of the ancient Indo-European peoples who contributed to the development of Greek culture by invading the territory of Hellas. Besides them, the Achaeans, Ionians...

The Trojan War was fought in the Bronze Age between Greeks and Trojans, beginning in 1300 BC. Ç. and would have lasted a decade. The conflict was narrated in two epic poems: the Iliad, which deals with...

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the leader of the Fascist Party, which dominated Italy between 1922 and 1943. He was born on July 29, 1883 and died on April 28, 1943. Mussolini defined himself as...

The Algerian War (1954-1962) was a conflict between Algerians and Frenchmen to gain the country's independence. The conflict caused the death of more than 300,000 Algerians, 27,500 soldiers...

Franklin Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States. In this position, he was elected four times governing the country between the years 1933 to 1945. He was the first president of the United States...

The Nuremberg Court was an international court created in 1945 to try crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II. Trials began on November 20,...

The independence of Congo, which belonged to Belgium, took place in 1960, after violent conflicts and popular demonstrations. The country went through a dictatorship and, in 2012, the Congolese people started to...

The Ottoman Empire or Turkish-Ottoman Empire began around 1300, in what is now the Republic of Turkey, and ended at the time of World War I. The territories...

Américo Vespucci was a Florentine navigator, cartographer, writer and merchant. He participated three times in maritime expeditions. Due to your descriptions of the new land, the continent...

Atomic bomb, or nuclear bomb, is a weapon consisting of an explosive projectile launched by planes or missiles. It works as a result of nuclear fusion and fission processes and has...

The Thirty Years War represented a set of political and religious conflicts, developed between several countries in Europe (France, England, Spain, Portugal, Germany,...

The Secular State is a form of political organization that guarantees religious freedom for all its citizens. In this way, the Secular State is not against religion, but guarantees that all...

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965) was a British politician and Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was one of the most iconic figures during World War II (1939-1945) when...

The Hittites or Hittite civilization represents one of the peoples who lived in antiquity. Although little known, the Hittite civilization was one of the greatest in antiquity, alongside the...

Morse code is a telegraphic system that can be used in several languages. It consists of dots, dashes and spaces representing letters, numbers and punctuation marks and was...

Portugal was the last of the European countries to recognize the independence of its former former colonies in Africa: Angola, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, Mozambique and Cape Verde. THE...

The Triple Alliance Treaty was a secret agreement signed on May 1, 1865, in the city of Buenos Aires, between Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. The three countries allied themselves against the dictator...

Gulag is an acronym, in Russian, for Central Administration of the Fields. These were prison camps where detainees were punished with forced labor, physical torture and...

“Sebastianism”, “Sebastic Myth” or “Mito do Encoberto” was a messianic myth that emerged in the middle of the 16th century in Portugal, which became known for referring to the curious...

The Manhattan Project was research carried out during World War II to build nuclear weapons from 1942 to 1946. In addition to the United States, Canada and England collaborated with...

The al-Qaeda group appears in 1988, in Afghanistan, as a Salafist organization, led by Saudi Osama Bin-Laden. In the 1990s, the group would adopt strong anti-American rhetoric and...

The Battle of Waterloo marked the end of the Napoleonic Era (1799-1815). The fight lasted only one day, on June 18, 1815. French, English and their allies faced each other on the battlefield that...

Also known as the “Papal Reformation” or the “Papal Revolution”, the Gregorian Reformation was a series of measures initiated by the Papacy in the 11th century to rid the Church of secular interference...

D-Day or Decision Day is the name by which the landing of Allied troops in northern France on June 6, 1944 is known.. Summary The discussion of the Allied attack on Normandy...

The Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was the largest prison camp in Nazi Germany and the largest center built to kill people in the history of...

Otto von Bismarck, Prussian military and politician, was born in 1815 in Schönhausen. Bismarck unified the German states and built the foundations of the Second German Empire that lasted from 1871 to...

The Ionians, Ionians or Ionians are one of the ancient peoples who helped in the formation of Greek culture (science, philosophy and art). Besides them, the Achaeans, the Aeolians and the Dorians had a...

The Achaeans represent one of the ancient civilizations that lived in the Bronze Age. They were responsible for part of the colonization of Ancient Greece, being one of the first to inhabit the region of...

The Great Schism of the West represents a crisis in the Catholic religion that took place between 1378 and 1417. Also called the Papal Schism or Great Schism, this period was initially marked...

The Holy Alliance and the Congress of Vienna

The Holy Alliance was a military agreement concluded in 1815 between the great European monarchic...

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Battle of Waterloo: the conflict that marked the end of the Napoleonic Era

Battle of Waterloo: the conflict that marked the end of the Napoleonic Era

THE Battle of Waterloo marked the end of the Napoleonic Era (1799-1815).The fight lasted only one...

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West India Company

The West India Company, DutchWest-IndischeCompagnie, was a Dutch trading company, founded in 1621...

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