AROUND 200 AP. AD:The Roman Empire begins to weaken: The Roman armies decide to choose their own emperors and fighting breaks out between different groups of soldiers. This marks the beginning of the fall of Rome. The Roman Empire is attacked by the Germans: The Germans are tribes from the northea
Roman army: The Romans are winning more and more wars and begin to found the Roman Empire with a strong and well-organized army. Indeed, the soldiers fight in very disciplined groups. A group of 100 soldiers is called a centuria . Centuries form cohorts and 10 cohorts constitute a legion . During t
ABOUT 100 B.C. AD Birth of Julius Caesar: Caius Julius Caesar was born into a rich and noble Roman family. Very early on, he became involved in politics and built his career by relying on the people. IN 60 B.C. AD Alliance with Pompey and Crassus: Faced with a divided Senate and in a climate of ci
TOWARDS 753 B.C. AD Foundation of the city of Rome: Originally, the city of Rome is just a small farming village on the banks of a river, the Tiber. Over time, new villages are born and eventually form a city. Rome is ruled by kings. The legend of Remus and Romulus: The city of Rome was founded by
IN JULY 356 B.C. AD Birth of Alexander the Great: Alexander is the son of the Macedonian king Philip II and his 4th wife Olympia . He was born in Pella in Macedonia and received from 343 BC. JC, an exceptional education for the time. The teachings of the philosopher Aristotle allowed him to build h
BETWEEN 490 AND 479 BC. AD Greece is invaded by the Persians: This is the beginning of the Persian Wars. The Greeks defend themselves and crush the Persians during a terrible battle at Marathon. A runner carries the good news in Athens, for more than 32 km, and dies of exhaustion. The modern marath
AROUND 1,100 – 800 BC. AD Archaic Greek period: After the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization , life is difficult in Greece. The inhabitants devote all their time to agriculture and forget their other skills, such as writing. ABOUT 800 B.C. AD Life in ancient Greece: During the Archaic period,
CIRCA 6000 BC Birth of the Minoan civilization: Peasants settle in Crete , an island in the Mediterranean Sea. Slowly their way of life leads to the first great civilization in Europe. The Minoans owe their name to King Minos who is believed to have reigned over the island. The legend of King Minos
CIRCA 2000 BC Birth of the Mycenaean civilization: Populations of Indo-European origin infiltrate the Balkan Peninsula, slowly colonizing Greece present day and settled in the southern lands. They founded small kingdoms there, each consisting of a city surrounded by walls and land. Mycenae is the m
US imperialism was a slightly different phenomenon from Europe. In the first place because their objectives were found, in principle, in the same continent and secondly because their interests were more strategic and political than economic.These interests were defined around some ideological and st
This news has become the front page of the main media around the world. The symbolism that the figure of Bin Laden had for the West as the personification of Islamist terrorism and as a declared enemy of its values is evident. For this reason, his death has a certain power of liberating catharsis,
Source:Public Now marks the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon. For this reason, the media are paying great attention to this event. In these reports and documentaries there is a strong tendency to present this event as one of those historical moments t
Martin Luther King in Washington (1963). Source:Infobae. On August 28, the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington was commemorated. Many people participated in it - an estimated 250,000 - gathered with the aim of demanding a more egalitarian society, free from the chains of racial segrega
The world stopped being bipolar at the end of the Cold War. Then came what has been called multilateralism, that is, the appearance on the geopolitical scene of new actors:China, Russia, India, the EU, etc. This basically meant that Russia was reduced to the status of a regional power and that the U
Introduction Last April 17th marked the 60th anniversary of the failed invasion of Cuba that took place at the Bay of Pigs. It was a military operation carried out by Cuban exiles supported by the United States government through the CIA who, in April 1961, landed in that place with the intention o
The year 1898 has remained as a benchmark for the loss of the last remains of the Spanish overseas empire. The Spanish-Cuban-American War was the conflict that caused this disappearance, but the origins of this conflict go back years and arose in Cuba. The first confrontation between Cubans and Sp
The context. The cantonalist phenomenon falls within the framework of the First Spanish Republic, being one of the most extreme manifestations of that period since it involved an explosion of long-silent popular desires. After the abdication of Amadeo I, the Cortes, united Congress and Senate in a
One of the most unusual chapters in contemporary Spanish history in the second half of the 20th century was the attempt to obtain its own nuclear weapons. The project emerged in the postwar years and lasted throughout the Franco regime, going through various ups and downs depending on Spains foreign
The Spanish transition, understood as the period between the death of Franco on November 20, 1975 and the electoral victory of the PSOE on October 28, 1982, was characterized by the transition from a dictatorial political regime to a democratic one. This course was channeled through pacts and negoti
The coup détat of July 18 failed to succeed in the province of Jaén due to the strength of the labor movement, the scarcity of military personnel and the fact that the Republican militias managed to arm themselves by assaulting the Civil Guard barracks. The main confrontation took place in the Sanct
Pirates and, in general, all criminals, before attacking violently, the first step they took was to intimidate their prey. It is for this reason that, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, when a group of men repudiated all government and went to sea, they tended to choose large ships—although
A bulletproof vest, a condom, a universal firemans ladder, a doormat and a mine detector are all made by Poles. Our inventors and discoverers have changed both the world of science and everyday life. Andrzej and Irena Fedorowicz in their book describe their unusual biographies and often winding road
L’Ile du Sable (Isla de la Arena) is a small islet of 0.8 square km in the Indian Ocean, more than 300 kilometers from Madagascar, the nearest mainland. She was the protagonist of a miserable story. In the words of Max Guérout , a marine archaeologist and former French naval officer, who led a 2007
By the late 1910s all European powers and the US had begun building air forces. In this development, Europe won the primacy, despite the fact that the Americans were the ones who first integrated the airplane into their armed forces. From the moment the military leaders of the European powers dec