The Battle of Poitiers (732) is part of the context of the Muslim expansion led in the West by Governor Abd al-Rahman of Andalusia, which is heading towards the Frankish kingdom and Tours. Its advance was stopped, near Poitiers, by the army of Charles Martel, mayor of the palace of Merovingian Gaul
Presumed portrait of the twenty-year-old Marquis De Sade The storming of the Bastille , which took place on 14 July 1789 in Paris, it is considered the event that officially started the French Revolution. When the rioters broke into the old fortress, long used as a prison, to free the pris
Over a billion people on Earth do not have access to clean drinking water. Meanwhile, waterworks in Krakow appeared in the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, richer city dwellers already enjoyed the water intake in their own home. However, it was much worse with the sewage system. Where did all the w
Do you know about the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples in Canada? This is a story about the dark side of Canadian history. Thousands of years before the colonization took place, the indigenous national people now lived in the country. Historically, however, the governments treatment of indi