Ancient history

• Alfred Nobel

  Alfred Nobel was a Swedish factory owner and inventor who was etched in history as the inventor of dynamite. Nobel enriched himself through the production of explosives and weapons, and was responsible for the Nobel Prize by leaving a large part of his fortune for its creation.Read more: Landell de

• al-Qaeda

  Al-Qaeda is an Islamic fundamentalist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988 and responsible for several terrorist attacks, such as 9/11 in the US. The Al-Qaeda , “the base” in Arabic, is an Islamic fundamentalist organization founded in 1988 by Osama b in Laden, with the initial objectiv

• Adolf Hitler

  Adolf Hitler was the great leader of Nazism and responsible for a terror regime that led the world to World War II and made his country carry out the Holocaust. Who was Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler he is one of the greats of the 20th century, just as he is one of the greats of history. Hitlers name,

• Abraham Lincoln

  Abraham Lincoln he was the 16th president of the United States, taking office in 1861. His government was marked by the American Civil War, a conflict between the northern and southern states of the United States over the issue of the expansion of slavery. He proclaimed the abolition of slave labor

• Abolition and the New Republic

  From 1850 onwards, Abolition and the Republic integrated if in a single period of history that is the result of changes in the Brazilian economic base. The basis of the monarchy was the class that owned slaves and that was effectively affected.The process of Proclamation of the Republic offered cond

• The Reunification of Germany

  The reunification of Germany took place on October 3, 1990 when the territory of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (RFA or Germany West).Germany was divided between the main victors of WWII. Subsequently, the two German

• The reinvention of Bolívar's death

  By Rainer SousaEric Hobsbawn, a well-known historian of the 20th century, was the author of an interesting work in which he publishes several articles that discuss the genesis of some traditions. In his view, several of the manifestations that seek to define the identity of a particular culture aris

• Prostitution in the 19th century

  By Rainer Sousa In the 19th century, we see the expansion of the Industrial Revolution happening in other parts of the world and especially in the Old Continent. In a short time, we see the formation of large urban centers where workers occupied different jobs and experienced a type of routine never

• The New Republic

  Brazil entered a process of redemocratization from the elections that took place in 1985, when the military power was extinguished and Tancredo Neves was elected to the position of President of the Republic. All political parties, after the defeat of the proposal in the form of an amendment to hol

• The legendary Alcatraz prison

  By Rainer Sousa After the outbreak of the 1929 crisis – an economic shock that hit the United States hard – there was a sudden increase in criminal activities in that country. However, in the San Francisco area there was a small “mound of earth” capable of causing the shivers of many bandits of tha

• The invention of television

  By Rainer Sousa Historically, the interest in creating the television set can be found since the 19th century. At this time, great concepts developed in mathematics, physics and chemistry were the fundamental precursors of the technology used in the creation of TV sets. Around the 1840s, several sci

• The history of art according to Warburg

  The history of art, according to Warburg, consisted of the task of perceiving the survival of past images in symbolic forms. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe history of art it is one of the most important disciplines of the Humanities (that is, the area of ​​the humanities). The interpretation and appre

• Could slavery in Brazil have been abolished before 1888?

  Could slavery in Brazil have been abolished before 1888? Yes, if a project elaborated by the statesman José Bonifácio had been put into practice. Delayed Abolition It is never inappropriate to point out that Brazil was the last country on the American continent to abolish slavery. The Golden Law (I

• The economy of the French Revolution

  At that time, the main economic activity in France was agriculture:approximately 80% of the population lived and worked in rural areas.During in the middle of the 18th century, a large part of the population was starving. All because the heavy taxes impoverished the people. This difficult situation

• The democratization of Eastern Europe

  In the 1980s, countries that were unified with the USSR and the communist regime began to protest and ask for better living conditions, the end of control by the USSR and the expansion of freedoms policies. The first country that entered this “wave” was Poland. In 1980, workers organized a large-s

• The crisis in the Balkans

  The crisis in the Balkans began when Austria decided to annex the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina to its territory. By Lilian AguiarThe crisis in the Balkans began in 1908, when Austria decided to annex to its territory the Turkish provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, coveted by Serbia and Russ

• Comparison of the war in Vietnam and Iraq

  In the midst of the war in Iraq, the comparison with Vietnam is inevitable. At first because of the pretext alleged by the United States to participate in the Vietnam War (1964-1975), which, according to several experts, was almost as baseless as the evidence alleged by the Americans that Iraq had w

• South Africa divided

  Due to its riches such as gold and diamonds, South Africa was the destination of countless European settlers, such as the British and Dutch. The descendants of these peoples, supported by the unrealistic idea of ​​superiority of the white man, created in the 20th century a policy of racial discrimin

• November 20th – Black Consciousness Day

  The Black Awareness Day is a commemorative date that is celebrated in our country on November 20 . This date recalls the trajectory of Zumbi dos Palmares, a quilombola who led the Quilombo dos Palmares resistance against the Portuguese in the 17th century. It is also a date to remember and fight the

• Palmares zombie

  Zumbi dos Palmares is one of the great names in the history of Brazil. He was one of the leaders of the Quilombo dos Palmares , the largest and longest-lived quilombo in the history of our country. Zumbi assumed the leadership of the quilombo, in 1678, and resisted, for almost 20 years, against the