The Period A rcaic , between 800 BC. and 500 BC, corresponds to the third historical period of Ancient Greece, right after the Homeric period. This epoch holds profound political and economic changes due to the consolidation of city-states, of which Sparta and Athens stand out. Periods of Ancient G
The British learned at great cost in blood the value of rifled rifles during the American Revolutionary War. In 1800 Ezekiel Bakers design was chosen to equip the Experimental Rifle Corps. During the tests 12 shots were fired of which 11 hit the target, a 1.8 m diameter round wood at a distance o
Songhai Empire , also Written Songhay , large commercial state West Africa (flourishing 15th - 16th centuries), centered on the central area of the Niger River at todays center Mali and finally west to Atlantic Coast and east to Niger and Nigeria . Britannica Quiz Dest
Fascist Italy possessed, in theory, a powerful navy in the first phase of the Second World War, capable of facing the corresponding French or British Mediterranean Fleet alone, in cooperation with the Italian air force that would launch from the “ unsinkable aircraft carriers, Sicily and Sardinia.