When US Soldiers marched onto the Champ-Elysees for a parade there was an outpouring of enthusiasm, Parisians lined the boulevards waving the new combined colours of France & America whilst cheering their liberators on with heartfelt cries of 'Vive L' Amerique!'
The capture of Rhodes, the last Christian bastion of the East, momentarily awakened the pope and the European powers. Again, a Greek contributed to this awakening, Janos Laskaris, a descendant of the Laskarids, the imperial family of Nicaea. Another Laskaris would later play a catalytic role in the
It is a well-known story that the English word citizenship for citizenship comes from the word Tibitus for Roman citizenship, and it is very difficult to tell what Roman citizenship was like when talking about Roman history. is important. So this time we talk about Roman citizenship. It was in t
After the overwhelming victory over the Persians at Gaugamela, Alexander wanted to complete the conquest of the easternmost provinces of the Persian empire. Alexander in the winter of 331-330 BC. had already conquered Susa. His aim was to move through the Royal Road towards Persepolis and Pasarga
It is often thought that beer has its origins in the Germanic peoples, and that, due to the Roman Empire and the popularity of wine, beer did not begin to be produced and spread until shortly after the invasions of the so-called barbarians. Beer was already known many years before by civilizations a