The capture of the island was to ensure the Americans an air base only 1,200 kilometers from Tokyo. Until then, bombing missions had started from the Mariana Islands more than 5,000 kilometers from Japan:a distance that made escorting fighters impossible; heavy losses followed among the B-29 superfo
Mercantilism was the set of economic practices used by absolutist nations during the Modern Age. It was a transition from feudalism to capitalism. The mercantilism was the set of economic practices used by the absolutist nations of Europe during the Modern Age, specifically between the 15th and 18t
The city of Granada from the Alhambra Palace, residence of the Nasrid kings from the 13th to the 15th century • ISTOCK We owe to Ibn Khaldûn, Arab thinker of the XIVth century, an original theory on empires. According to him, the only way to create wealth is to accumulate it by raising taxes. An
How could it be, that those hominids who dominated Middle Paleolithic Europe, were they not able to continue living after the arrival of Homo Sapiens? This was the big question that fluttered any congress, or meeting between prehistorians and anthropologists for many years, today it has practically