In this sense, in the river basins Volga and Don is where the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius locates Tartary, as we can see on the world map Typus orbis terrarum [1], from 1608, where we also see that Tartary differs from Mongolia itself or from Turkestan. But it can also, in a more general
In East Asia, World War II began in July 1937 with the Japanese invasion of mainland China. The main reason for the invasion was the perception of Japans lack of living space. Japan is a mountainous country with limited arable land. From 1868 to 1930 the Japanese population grew rapidly, from 30 mil
At the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, Felipe V he had had to give up his Italian possessions (Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, Milan and the Presidios of Tuscany) as part of the price to be recognized as king of Spain and the Indies. However, he never resigned himself to the loss of it and aspir
The advances of the Industrial Revolution put at the service of the war machine led to the development of weapons capable of inflicting devastating losses on armies. Trench warfare revealed, among its many horrors, the high number of casualties on both sides from head injuries. In the trenches, the