The Sumerian economy was based mainly on barter, and to prevent the markets from becoming a battlefield or the rogues from doing their thing, the rulers annually issued tables of product equivalencies. Thus, any buyer could know that a kilo of wool -which weighs the same as a kilo of iron- was equiv
Intro (Victor Hugo. Speech at the French Academy, June 3, 1841). Bonapartes youth A promising childhood Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio in 1769, three months after the Republic of Genoa ceded Corsica to France. His family was of noble origin but did not live in comfort because it was necess
Back in the fourth century B.C. Rome was an incipient Republic, compressed in the center of the Italian peninsula, whose only alternative for growth was to absorb all those peoples that surrounded it in its expansion. Etruscans, Samnites, Aequi and Volcans ended during that time under the Roman yoke
The interesting thing about Roman times is that the evaluation of a person changes greatly depending on the historian who evaluates it. The prime example is Tiberius, the second emperor, who, while many historians in the past, including Tacitus, labeled Tiberius as a tyrant, like Tiberius, a 19th-