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 …