Lawrence J. Goodrich, writer of The Christian Science Monitor
not least the freedom of minorities to express discontent. Until referendum day, nobody who experienced the vibrancy of Barcelona could seriously claim that Catalonia was oppressed. With few exceptions, notably when empires collapse, the world generally favours national unity over self-determination...
Byzantine Empire: The capital of the Byzantine Empire was Constantinople, which was named after the emperor Constantine. Today, this city is known as Istanbul, and is located in Turkey. Answer and Explanation: The Byzantine Empire actually was the Roman Empire. The emperor Diocletian split the Ro...
I thought exploring different empires and seeing how long they lasted would be interesting. In another article, I talk about the definition of "civilization." There, I explain in detail how I determine when a civilization starts, when it ends, and when it gets listed in this survey. My ...
How did the Mongols govern their empire? How did the Mongol Empire differ from other empires? How did Genghis Khan start the Mongol Empire? How was the Mongol Empire organized socially? How did the Mongols create the world's largest land empire?
(nobles) in exchange for land. The barrons provided money and knights to the kings. EuropeanFeudalismcame about in attempt to restoreEuropeafter the fall of many different enormous and centralized empires, such as Rome Between between the 9th and 15th centuries, Feudalism led to changes such as...
the four towers marking the corners of the tomb were built as working minarets, with stairways and balconies allowing a muezzin to call the faithful to prayer. If you look closely, you’ll notice that the minarets are angled slightly outwards, allowing the towers to collapse away from the ma...
"Kiev" comes from Russian, and Ukraine has been campaigning for the Ukrainian spelling and pronunciation since the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Oleksandra Wallo, assistant professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures at University of Kansas, explains that the former name of the ...
If one group member had a very interesting result, within 24 hours I might have pulled everyone off their existing projects and sent them in a new direction. And when that research thread collapsed, because, of course, most do collapse, everyone might have their projects changed again within ...
Prewar predictions that Ukraine’s army would collapse had largely been based on the assumption Russia’s air force would quickly establish control of Ukraine’s skies. Instead, amid widespread disarray among the invaders, Russia’s army shot down a number of its own aircraft in the early days...