From the earliest days of Athenian democracy the only taxes levied on citizens were those on property, really the only source of measurable wealth. And only the rich paid them. There were two types of taxes or fees. One was applied only in cases of extreme necessity due to wars or other serious cir
In Russia an arms manufacturer does not have a bad reputation by any means. Quite the opposite. With numerous events, the largest country in the world today celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov, who manufactured the AK-47 rifle shortly after the end of World War II, o
At the beginning of the 20th century, Greek politicians still They continued to curse the presence of the Almogavars, six centuries before, in Greek lands. Possibly forgetting that they were called upon by themselves, to shake off the Turks in the darkest hours of the Byzantine Empire. Neither savio
Champa , Chinese Lin-yi , ancient Indochinese kingdom from 2nd to 17th centuries n . Ch. and spans the central and southern coastal regions Vietnam from the 18th parallel north to Point Ke Ga (Cape Varella) to the south. Champa was from the Cham, a people of Malayo-Polynesian