The Dawes Act allotted each Native American family a parcel of land which varied in size. However, many of these allotments were less than 160 acres, the number the government estimated would be sufficient to support a four-person family. Consequently, it became increasingly difficult as the years went on for Native American families to support themselves.
Helmuth Johann Ludwig, Count von Moltke, born May 25, 1848 in Gersdorf (Mecklenburg), died June 18, 1916 in Berlin, was a German soldier. He was the nephew of Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800-1891), a great Prussian military leader. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he served with the
Zoroastrianism is one of the oldest living religions in the world, and many aspects of its worship, such as the importance of fire or the sacred drink, haoma , have survived to this day. Others had to be abandoned, such as the funerary practice of letting birds emaciate the bodies of the deceased.
If you are sorting arts and crafts finds from the Viking Age, it makes sense to divide them into six Viking art styles. In the early Middle Ages, griffin motifs of the Oseberg style and the Borre style dominated. After that, the Vikings relied on narrow animal depictions in the Jelling style and pla
Probably one of the strangest and most attractive places in medieval Spain is a mountainous massif located in the extreme north-west of the province of Burgos, almost bordering the north of Palencia and the south of Cantabria. A flat place from which a rare orographic mass of 1,377 meters of altitud