On November 16, 1532, the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured in the middle of his retinue by a small group of Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro . This daring attack, coupled with a terrible massacre, would sound the death knell of the Inca Empire and begin its conquest by the Spaniards. However, t
Walker, go and tell Sparta that her children lie here to fulfill her laws . That splendid phrase of Simonides that, in its multiple translations, constitutes the epigraph of the monument to Leonidas at Thermopylae, is too juicy not to take advantage of it in other war memorials with the correspondi
As the final stage of prehistory is known, that we can consider in many cases protohistory, is directly related to the use of metals. Hence, since the 19th century, its temporal divisions mainly serve a greater use of some, compared to others. In such a way that three main periods are known, the Cop
(Decize, Nivernais, 1767 - Paris, 1794.) Politician , one of the main figures of the French Revolution.Of bourgeois origins, Saint-Just was the son of a light horse captain. In 1776, the latter moved with his family to Blérancourt, in the Aisne. The young Saint-Just completed his studies with the Or