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The date of birth of the Despotate of Mystras is the year 1259. Then the army of the reverend king John Palaiologos defeated the Franks in Pelagonia and captured the prince of Achaia. In exchange for his freedom, he granted the castles of Mystras, Monemvasia and Maini. At first the small Byzantin
Philip IV, known as the Beautiful, king of France from 1285 to 1314, owes his nickname to his immense stature and the beauty of his impassive face. “It is neither a man nor a beast, it is a statue .” said of him the French prelate Bernard Saisset. His reign is considered by historians to be one of t
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
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