Why is the Shang Dynasty important to world history? How did Temujin become Genghis Khan? Why is the existence of Xia dynasty debated? Why were the Mongols so successful at creating an empire? What motivated Genghis Khan to unite all the Mongols?
Why were the Mongols so successful at creating an empire? Why did the Mongols depopulate certain Asian cities? Why were the Mongols unable to conquer Japan? How was China affected by Mongol invasions? Why did the Mongol Empire split?
Why was the invasion of the Byzantine Empire significant? Why did Greece fall? Why did the Ottoman Empire last so long? Why did the Parthian Empire fall? Why was the Ottoman Empire important? Why did the Inca Empire fall? Why was the Ottoman Empire so successful? Why is the Turkish Empir...
Churchill was struck by how the socially unsophisticated Pashtun fighters were nevertheless equipped with modern arms: “To the ferocity of the Zulu are added the craft of the Redskin and the marksmanship of the Boer,” he wrote. “At a thousand yards the traveler falls wounded by the well-...
This gap between game mechanics and objectives is a huge missed opportunity. To really get to grips with the period,Crusader Kings IIand other king-sims need to do more to focus on what it meant to be successful medieval monarch: how to win in the Middle Ages. ...
If the West is successful in its attempts to“deter”Russia, it will get its reward – long-lasting resentment from Russians, who will view the US-led West as a force that prevents them from managing a big chunk of their historic land. ...
the churches in England. They wanted to establish a community that others looked up to. They wanted to move to thisnewland that had so much potential. The Puritans found the opportunities they were looking for when they decided to move across the water toNewEngland and were successful in ...
onboard were six Africans who had been kidnapped by Cão and taught Portuguese. They were to be dropped off at points along the African coast so they could testify to the grandeur of the Portuguese kingdom and make inquiries into the possible whereabouts of the Kingdom of Prester...
The 'Four Rightly Guided' Rashidun Caliphs were four, there were more than 30 Ummayad Caliphs, Nearly 40 Abbasid Caliphs, and many Sunni Caliphs are not even from Quraysh! Desperate / straw man Sunni responses: 1) "It doesn't say Ahlul Bayt! That means it's not talking about the 12...
I don’t think so, I heard the opposite today. If there is a supernatural element it will be minor like slowing time to represent quickness. They said they were going for realism. Not 100% historically accurate but their version of a real event in history. ...