The Conquest of Ceuta took place in 1415 and symbolizes the beginning of Portuguese overseas expansion. The objective of the Crown, driven by the bourgeoisie, was to seize the city that received the caravans of Moors that transported gold, ivory, spices and slaves. Portuguese Maritime Expansion W
Introduction sacred text of Islam. The name, in Arabic, means read or recited. This word may be an Arabized form of Syrian origin and applies to the book that contains, for Muslims, a series of revelations from Allah (God) to Muhammad. These revelations began in the first decades of the 7th centur
Egypt has been, throughout its history, a target of different processes of unification and invasion. Contrary to what we usually study, these invasions took place during other moments before the domination of the Romans in the 1st century or the European nations in the 19th century. Thus, the crises
The pre-dynastic period does not mark the official beginning of the history of Egypt which starts from the thinite period . At the beginning of the pre-dynastic period, the Egyptians already made arrows, harpoons and pots. They use ochres as dyes, crush harvested products with millstones, sew animal