Cuneiform is a system of writing that uses wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets. It was developed by the Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) in the 4th millennium BC. Cuneiform was used to write a variety of languages, including Sumerian, Akkadian, Elamite, and Old Persian. It was eventually replaced by alphabetic scripts, but it remained in use for some specialized purposes until the 1st century AD.
Before the arrival of Europeans, Africa had rich and fabulous kingdoms. In antiquity, we have the empire of Carthage and Egypt; and in the Middle Ages, the constitution of the Empire of Mali and Ethiopia. Through the cities of North Africa, contact and trade with European countries was established
The Revolution, by sweeping away the Old Regime, generated a veritable witch hunt against the royalists; on January 21, 1793, the Montagnards lead Louis XVI to the scaffold. Two months later, an extraordinary criminal court, called revolutionary, was created. On March 21, the Terror establishes the
During the days that followed Dunkirk, the Germans, without wasting a minute, rushed straight into the heart of France. By mid-June, the French armies were incapable of any organized resistance, and Mr. Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister, had to seek the consent of the British government to ask the German
The Fourth Brazilian Republic was a period marked by major political crises and a great leap in Brazils economic and industrial development indices. The Fourth Brazilian Republic was the period of Brazilian history that began in 1945, with the end of the Vargas Era, and ended in 1964, with the Civi