The word inquisition evokes feelings of evil, torture and fear. The Inquisition persecuted heretics for centuries. The most memorable and terrible was the Spanish Inquisition.
World history knows many significant empires created in antiquity and among them the Persian Empire stands out especially brightly with its brilliance.
To Mesopotamia we owe the invention of cultivated agriculture, the wheel, the calendar, numbers, the alphabet and much more. History and facts about Mesopotamia.
Of all the empires that have arisen and flourished on the face of this earth, what are the five greatest? How is it even possible to pick five out of the hundreds that have flourished over the past five thousand years?
The Hunnic tribes are part of the history of the world and more precisely of that of Europe. The Huns appeared on the continent in the 2nd century and in the 5th created their state.
The theocratic Arab-Muslim state, created as a result of the Arab conquests in the 7th-9th centuries and headed by caliphs, is called the Arab Caliphate in historical chronicles.
In the 5th century, barbaric Germanic tribes invaded the lands of the Western Roman Empire and settled in these places. These are the Franks. Undisputed peak in the history of the state of the Franks is the reign of Charlemagne.
A lot can be forgotten in 3000 years. Men and women who are powerful in their day fade into memory after 5, 10, 100 years. There's no shortage of examples of this throughout history.