In 1600, a company that rose to account for half of the worlds trade established. It was made to challenge the Dutch-Portuguese spice trade, and Queen Elizabeth granted rights to bring in goods from India. James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill worked for the company and eventually became head of the office at …
In the town Pompeii there where beautiful houses everywhere. It was a flourishing resort for Rome’s disguised citizens, until the Mount Vesuvius erupted for a second time after sixteen years. This time far worst than the first time. It happened in 79 A.D., when the eruption sent out a plume of ashes, along with pumice …
The Berlin Wall was built because of the refugee problem East Germany was suffering from. West Germany had a good economy and capitalist state, whilst the communist East had very poor standards of living. Nobody wanted to live in the East, so people started crossing to the West. By 1958, three million East Germans crossed …
After the second world war, the cold war began. During world war two, the Soviet Union and U.S.A. were allies against Hitler, but when the war ended, there was no longer a common enemy. There were large differences between the Soviet Union’s communist political system and the U.S.A’s capitalist one, this made co-operation between the …
Tantalus was one of the mortal sons of Zeus, favored more by other Gods than Zeus himself. They gave him many advantages that only immortals were aloud to endure. They let him dine with them and let him drink ambrosia with them. After condescending to dine with him in his banquet in his palace, he …
According to Greek mythology, back in the Odyssey, all monstrous creatures were banned from Earth; except for the cyclopes. As the first three cyclopes’ stuck around, Zeus became proud to call them his favorites. When more cyclopes came around, Zeus gave them land with plenty of food. They lived happy, but any visitors would find …
Bedouin shepherds discovered some scrolls placed in ten tall jars in 1947 West of the Dead Sea. They did not know what they had come upon, but they sold the scrolls to a nearby dealer. This was the opening chapter to an astonishing archeological find; eventually some 800 different manuscripts would be found in eleven …
The bubonic plague, also known as the black death, destroyed a higher proportion of population than any other event. The plague spread through the agency of fleas on dying rats, the bacteria in the disease stifled the vital organs of those who were infected. The symptoms caused swelling in the groin, armpits and necks, it …
On the 13 August 1961, a barrier between the German Democratic Republic to the east, and Federal Republic of Germany to the west was built, then Berlin Wall. It was erected by the GDR. It was a 3.6 meters concrete wall, toppers with barbed wire and impunctuated with imposing guard towers, with guards demanded to …
In 1991, a 5300 year old corpse was found on the alps, who is referred to as Ötzi or iceman. He had been frozen and mummified. This was a very favored discovery for archaeologists, because Ötzi was perfectly preserved. And it helped people to understand human life a lot more. An arrow head jammed …