On August 6 and 9, 1945, the US dropped two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , the only attacks of this nature ever carried out against human targets to date. The approximate number of deaths accounted for by the bombings is 140,000 in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki.
The Visigoths are one of the offshoots of the Goth peoples. Their name means “Western Goths”, to differentiate themselves from the Ostrogoths or East Goths. Its origin is on the shores of the Black Sea, in present-day Romania, constituting one of several Germanic (or barbarian) peoples that occupi
Also known as “Papal Reform ” or “Papal Revolution ”, the Gregorian Reform was a series of measures initiated by the Papacy in the 11th century to rid the Church of secular interference within the Church, resolving the tension between State and Church, while seeking to moralize the clergy themselves
War of the Roses is the name of a series of battles that took place between 1455 and 1487 in England between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, both descendants of KingEdward III and who claimed the English throne. The denomination War of the Two Roses it occurred because both sides of th
feudalism was a political, economic and social organization that developed during the Middle Ages period in Western Europe. The theme is recurrent in university entrance exams and in the Enem, and the questions may address topics such as economics, culture, politics and religion. We prepared and c
Moor was the name given by Christians to dark-skinned people of Muslim religion who inhabited the Iberian Peninsula from the 8th to the 15th century. The term comes from the Romans who named Mauritania to one of their provinces in Africa. With the invasion of Muslim Arabs on this continent, the inh
The Eastern Schism represented part of the conflicts generated by the Catholic Church of the West and the East, in the mid-11th century, which resulted in the creation of two branches of religion, which remain until the present day:the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church and the Orthodox Catholic Church
The Treaty of Verdun was an agreement concluded between the descendants of Charlemagne in the year 843, in the city of Verdun, located in the northeast of France, in the region of Lorraine. This document ended the “Carolingian Civil War”, dividing the vast Carolingian Empire between its three grand
The Iconoclastic Movement occurred during the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries, and represented one of the most important political-religious conflicts against the veneration, contemplation or worship of icons and images of a religious nature. The conflicts took place during the empire
The medieval castles begin to be erected when Western Europe was invaded by the Nordic peoples. Faced with the danger, there was a need to increase the defense of the territory by building more solid structures to resist the attacks of the so-called barbarian peoples. Origin Bodiam Castle, Englan
The “Arab Empire ” or “Islamic Arab Empire” is closely linked to the expansion of Islam and constituted a state that dominated much of the Asian continent, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula between the 7th and 13th centuries. Indeed, their unity was possible thanks to the legitimacy that Muhamm
Genghis Khan was a Mongolian warrior and politician who expanded his territory from Asia to Europe. Legend has made the sovereign the very synonym of the bloodthirsty despot, merciless murderer, but who must also be remembered for the feat of unifying the Mongols. His name can be engraved as both
The Holy Roman Empire was a monarchy of feudal character that lasted from 800 until 1806 in Central Europe and part of Northern Europe. At its height, it included the current territories belonging to Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
The Vikings were a people of northern Europe who conquered territories in England and France during the High Middle Ages. They are among the main cultural references of Scandinavia and to this day we can find representations of the Vikings in films and television series. Location and territorial ex
Charles the Great or Charles I the Great was an important medieval emperor and conqueror of the Carolingian Dynasty. Great defender of Catholic dogmas, he was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 by Pope Leo III, after becoming King of the Franks (768 to 814) and of the Lombards (from 774
The Templars or Order of the Temple was founded in 1128 during the Council of Troyes by Hugo Peyens and Geoffrey de Saint-Omer. The purpose of the Order was to protect pilgrims who came to Jerusalem. She later took part in battles and built a network of financial aid to European kings, feudal lords
medieval literature was that produced during the Middle Ages (5th and 15th century) until the beginning of the Renaissance. It was initially marked by the use of Latin and also by religious, historical and love themes. At that time, poetry and prose texts were produced. Note that in addition to tr
The Magna Carta orMagna Carta it was a document that guaranteed certain limitations of the kings power in relation to English nobles. It is considered the first constitutional document of the western world and precursor of Human Rights. Historical Context During the Late Middle Ages, kings were co
The Frankish peoples were a group of Germanic tribes who inhabited the lower and middle Rhine Rivers around the 3rd century AD. The Franks were the most powerful political organization in Western Europe after the fall of Rome. During centuries of expansion, they absorbed a large number of peoples i
The “Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula ” or “Christian Revival ” was an Iberian Christian movement of a military and religious nature, which opposed Christians and Muslims in a secular war for the recovery of territories lost to the Arab conquerors in the Iberian Peninsula, during the 8th century,
The Congress Working Committee met on 3 June 1947 in which the Mountbatten plan was accepted. In the meeting, it was described as a temporary solution and it was hoped that when the storm of hatred subsides, Indias problems will be looked at with the right perspective and then this false theory of t
Fascist Italy possessed, in theory, a powerful navy in the first phase of the Second World War, capable of facing the corresponding French or British Mediterranean Fleet alone, in cooperation with the Italian air force that would launch from the “ unsinkable aircraft carriers, Sicily and Sardinia.
In times of war, anything goes… or so it seems. These are some of the projects in which animals were used for military purposes: Bomb Bats :Developed by the US in World War II to be used against Japan. The bat-pump project was conceived by dental surgeon Lytle S. Adams , who presented it to the Whi
The North American YF-107 Ultra Saber is a 1950s American prototype fighter aircraft developed from the F-100 Super Sabre2. Built in only three copies, it served in particular within the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Development Developed on its own funds2 by North American from 1953