Examples of goods, foods, and ideas exchanged during the Columbian Exchange include:
- From the Old World to the New World: wheat, rice, sugar, horses, cattle, pigs, smallpox, measles, influenza.
- From the New World to the Old World: maize (corn), potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, chocolate, syphilis.
In mid-February 1941, Admiral Raeder, commander in head of the German navy, and his Italian counterpart, Admiral Riccardi, met to study the possibility of an attack on British convoys by Italian surface ships. They could find no basis for agreement. But on March 5, as the English forces in Greece we
Defeated Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, a treaty which, by all accounts, was a prelude to a new war. The victorious Allies imposed very heavy conditions on the defeated Germans, but they later neglected to comply with them. However, the situation at the military level began
The Battle of Talavera, or Talavera de la Reina, is a bloody battle of Napoleons campaign in Spain, which took place on July 27 and 28, 1809 in Talavera de la Reina, in the province of Toledo. Campaign before the battle After chasing Marshal Soults French army from Portugal, General Arthur Wellesle
As if late-imperial Rome hadnt had enough fronts to deal with, in the 4th century AD. another one opened up to him as unexpected as it lasted -almost a hundred years-, and with somewhat surreal overtones because it was not developed against external or internal enemies but consisted of a harsh contr