Tanganyika , a historic East African country founded in 1964 with Zanzibar merged to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar was later renamed the United Republic of Tanzania. ( See Tanzania .) Britannica Quiz Destination Africa:Fact or Fiction? Is Africas northernm
The Thirty Years War officially broke out in 1618. However, its roots can be traced back to the Treaty of Augsburg in 1555. The then Habsburg Emperor Charles V, facing the specter of an intra-German, religious war between Roman Catholics and Lutherans, allowed Protestants certain religious freedoms.
(Boudry, canton of Neuchâtel, 1743 - Paris, 1793.) Publicist, doctor and politician.Son of a doctor of Sardinian origin established in Switzerland and a Genevan, Jean-Paul Marat studied medicine in Bordeaux, then in Paris, settled in London in 1765, then in Newcastle. While practicing medicine; he d
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh? The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient Mesopotamian poem, written in Akkadian language in the Mesopotamian city-state of Uruk. It is widely considered to be the oldest piece of epic world literature on earth, before the works of Homer with over 1500 years. The Akkadian