Solon (638 BC – 558 BC) was an Athenian poet, reformer and legislator, one of the seven sages of Greece. He ruled in a time of serious social conflicts resulting from an extreme concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of the eupatriates , noble landowners from the Attica region.
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets Two of the best-known monarchs of the Middle Ages in Europe were Alfonso X the Wise of Castile and Edward I of England, known as the Hammer of the Scots. In the blog and in some collaboration on other pages there are several entries dedicated to the famous
With the Revolution appears a new machine for the application of capital punishment:the guillotine . It owes its name to Doctor Guillotin, a member of the Constituent Assembly, who in 1789 proposed to replace by beheading the punishments then in force for those condemned to death. He advocated the u
The Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty , signed on December 12, 1846 between the United States and the Republic of New Granada (now Colombia and Panama), was a trade reciprocity agreement between the two countries. The problem is that it was tremendously favorable for the economic and commercial interests of