- Were small, with only one or two rooms
- Made of stone or adobe bricks
- Roofs were thatched with straw or reeds and some times included wooden beams
- Floors were made of earth which became hard packed over time
- Often had a small niche or altar and a central area for building fires
- Windows were small and few, and the entrances were often low and arched
King of Naples then of Spain (Ajaccio, January 7, 1768 - Florence, July 28, 1844). Joseph Bonaparte, (born in Corte, January 7, 1768 and died in Florence on July 28, 1844), lawyer, diplomat and soldier, King of Naples, then King of Spain, is the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was destin
Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean military who had a successful career in his countrys Army. Close to President Salvador Allende, Pinochet joined the military coup two days before it took place. He soon took over Chiles power and was the dictator of that country from 1973, the year of the coup, until
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
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