Evidence has been found to suggest that the Xia dynasty was China’s first civilization. For many years, the Shang Dynasty was thought to be the oldest, dating back to 1766 BCE.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate World War I peace signed on 3 March 1918 between the government of Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey) at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus). In the midst of the civil war provoked by the Russian Revolution, Lenin had to acce