Thirteen British colonies were established along the Atlantic Coast by the early eighteenth century. Throughout this, the indigenous people were exposed to the diseases of Europe, which they had never built up
for at least some part of the eighteenth century the map (or a copy of it) was on view at the Bodleian in the Anatomy School's cabinet of curiosities. One reason for its subsequent neglect appears to be that in November 1705 Edmond Halley, an expert on longitude and especially declination...
[Husum, 1652] 430 x 525 mm A rare mid-sixteenth century map of the Old World, divided according to the biblical Table of Nations, from Caspar Danckwerth’s Newe Landesbeschreibung der zweij Hertzogthuemer Schleswig und Holstein. The map is presented in a single hemisphere, with Europe, ...
The hotel was built in the mid-eighteenth century, but incorporates elements of an earlier structure on the site.Caer Drewyn Archaeological site Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0. Caer Drewyn is an early Iron Age hillfort to the north of the town of Corwen, Denbighshire. It has a ...
On Malaysia’s southwest coast, Malacca (Melaka) is a thriving city that has successfully paired its modern life with its rich colonial past. Founded by a fleeing Sumatran prince in the 1300s, Malacca became the domain of the Chinese, then the Portuguese
Europe is the second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia). It occupies nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. The long processes of his
The change in usage began to evolve prior toWorld War IIand tended to be confirmed during that war, when the term Middle East was given to the British military command inEgypt. By the mid-20th century a common definition of the Middle Eastencompassedthe states or territories ofTurkey,Cyprus...
The fourteenth century emperor of the Mali Empire. He is the medieval African ruler most known to the world outside Africa. His elaborate pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in 1324 introduced him to rulers in the Middle East and in Europe. Upon his return from Mecca, Mansa Musa ...
Rossett Hall is a mid-eighteenth century Grade II listed Georgian building situated in the village of Rossett, Wrexham County Borough, in the north of Wales. A former manor house, it is now a hotel under the Everbright Group.Golden Lion Inn Pub Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0. Golden ...
its inhabitants fled to western Europe; but Ammianus in fact says that the Drasidae (Druids) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine" (Res Gestae 15.9), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the ...