As the phrase absolute power corrupts, too strong power certainly causes corruption. Rome has produced a large number of great princes, but it has also produced tyrants as well. Here are 10 tyrants in the 1000-year history of Rome. 10th place:Domitian It is one of the few emperors who has be
In 1684 the Venetians declared war on the Turks. Under Francesco Morosini the Venetians had significant successes from the start as the Turks fought hard against the Austrians and Poles in parallel. The Greeks in the Peloponnese were already in a revolutionary upheaval, a fact that the Turks reali
The Muslim conquest began on July 19, 711, when on the banks of the Guadalete, the Arab and Berber troops of Táriq, freedman of Muza, defeated the Visigothic army of King Rodrigo , victim of the treacherous betrayal of Vitizas children and those close to him, among whom the Archbishop of Seville, Op
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. After imposing itself on other peoples of Lazio in the so-called Latin Wars, Rome