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The Venetian jurisdictionalism in modern times

The ideology of patrician Venetian ruling class of the Venetian Republic in the modern era is characterized by strong impregnation of thought jurisdictionalism. The supremacy of ...
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Birth of Britain (1 May 1707)

On 1 May 1707 the Act of Union signed by the parliaments of England and Scotland took effect. It gives rise to the Kingdom of Great Britain and puts an end the centuries-old rivalry ...
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Population growth in the Middle Ages

Speaking of population growth in the Middle Ages, a time marked by wars, famine and epidemics may seem incongruous. However, in the tenth century to the late thirteenth and despite a ...
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History and alphabet: Greek epigraphy

In ancient Greece, there were records that had the support of papyrus. These records were used for administrative, political, and sometimes even to historians of the time ....
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The Pazzi conspiracy (1478)

In world history, plots, conspiracies and attacks were numerous, and fueled many controversies, sometimes changing the course of events. The Pazzi conspiracy, ...

Prehistory and the First Men

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Taurus Emergence and evolution of the genus Homo, Homo Abilis to Homo Sapiens. The great waves of migration, the emergence of the first companies, spiritualities and techniques.
# Articles published Author
1. A civilization of the Mammoth?
Cromignonne

In ancient times, civilizations and empires

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Tte_de_Toutnkhamon_enfant_muse_du_Caire_Egypte Analyses of the great civilizations and empires that have marked history. Spirituality and conflict, social and technical developments of the appearance of writing in the last days of Rome.
# Articles published Author
1. Athens in the sixth century BC
wellington
2. Caracalla or violence in power?
Pedro
3. Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
Alix Ducret
4. Chest: Gladiator Emperor
Pedro
5. Corinth in the classical period
Wellington
6. Elagabalus, the priest-emperor
Cnaudin
7. Ancient Greece: War and Society in the Archaic period
wellington
8. Peloponnesian War: the fall of Athens (April 22, -404)
Kara Iskandar
9. History and alphabet: Greek epigraphy
Wellington
10. The year of four emperors (Rome, 69)
Pedro
11. The economy of ancient Greece (1): production
Wellington
12. The economy of ancient Greece (2): Finance
wellington
13. The Roman Empire in the fourth century: between myths and realities
Pedro
14. The legend of the birth of Rome
Pedro
15. The Colossus of Rhodes
Caliban
16. The Roman Forum in the Republic
Wellington
17. The world of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey
wellington
18. The Senate of Rome under the Republic
Rayan
19. The Roman emperors, rulers of the world
Pedro
20. The Ides of March, the assassination of Caesar (March 15 -44)
Pedro
21. The Olympic Games of ancient Greece
Lucretia
22. Mysteries of Tutankhamun revealed
Magellan
23. Nefertiti, an Egyptian queen and her bust
Magellan
24. Rome and the Mediterranean, IIIrd-IVth centuries (half)
Cnaudin
25. Rome and the Mediterranean, IIIrd-IVth centuries (2 / 2)
Cnaudin
26. Rome and the crossing of the Danube by the Goths (376)
Pedro
27. Tutankhamen: life, death and resurrection of a pharaoh
Magellan
28. Vespasian, Roman emperor (69-79)
Cnaudin

Religions and mythologies

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excalabur The great religions and myths structuring the various world civilizations, the Greek pantheon in Shinto through the various Abrahamic religions. Why and how have developed the different faces of faith around the globe?
# Articles published Author
1. History of Islam: Abderazziq, caliphate and secularism
Cnaudin
2. History of Islam: The Origins of Wahhabism
Cnaudin
3. History of Islam: The Salafi reformism
Cnaudin
4. History of Islam: Muslim Brotherhood
Cnaudin
5. History of Islam Qutb, radical Muslim Brother
Cnaudin
6. Jesus of Nazareth: the story of Christ
Desaix
7. The Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia?
Desaix
8. Noah's Ark and the myth of the flood
Desaix
9. The assassination of Ali (January 24 661) to the fitna
Cnaudin
10. The legend and the treasure of the Nibelungs
Magellan
11. Egyptian mythology
Bastet
12. The Council of Nicaea (May 20, 325)
Pedro
13. The myth of Merlin
JPerrin
14. King Arthur: History and Legend
Cnaudin
15. Muhammad, prophet of Islam
Cnaudin
16. Moses crossing the Red Sea and the Exodus
Lucretia
17. Origin and History of Saint Patrick
Bastet
18. Origin and History of Halloween
Bastet

The Middle Ages: kingdoms, empires and crusades

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agnes_sorel The Middle Ages, the disappearance of the Western Roman Empire in Humanism. The relationship between Christianity and Islam, social change, economic dynamics and military conflicts.
# Articles published Author
1. A table of the Middle Ages
Viviane
2. Al Andalus (fourth): From Conquest to the caliphate
Cnaudin
3. Al Andalus (2 / 4): On the Taifa Al Mansur
Cnaudin
4. Al Andalus (3 / 4): A North African-Andalusian empire?
Cnaudin
5. Al Andalus (4 / 4): the twilight Nazari
Cnaudin
6. Baldwin IV the Leper King of Jerusalem (1174-1185)
Cnaudin
7. Population growth in the Middle Ages
Rayan
8. Cooking the Middle Ages and medieval recipes
The Brinvilliers
9. William the Conqueror: the Viking who became king
Magellan
10. History of the Crusades (1 / 14): The First Crusade (1095-1099)
Cnaudin
11. History of the Crusades (10/14): Frederick II and the Crusade
Cnaudin
12. History of the Crusades (11/14): Louis IX and the Last Crusade
Cnaudin
13. History of the Crusades (12/14): Templars and military orders
Cnaudin
14. History of the Crusades (13/14): Mongols and Mamluks
Cnaudin
15. History of the Crusades (14/14): The end of the Latin states
Cnaudin
16. History of the Crusades (2 / 14): The creation of the Latin states
Cnaudin
17. History of the Crusades (3 / 14): The alarm Muslims and the 2nd Crusade
Cnaudin
18. History of the Crusades (4 / 14): Life and Death of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Cnaudin
19. History of the Crusades (5 / 14): the Third Crusade
Cnaudin
20. History of the Crusades (6 / 14): Share, exchange and vision of the Other
Cnaudin
21. History of the Crusades (7 / 14): Between Crusade and jihad, holy war
Cnaudin
22. History of the Crusades (8 / 14): The Fourth Crusade
Cnaudin
23. History of the Crusades (9 / 14): The Fifth Crusade
Cnaudin
24. Health and pollution in the Middle Ages
Viviane
25. The call to the crusade of Urban II at Clermont (1095)
Cnaudin
26. Italy in the late Middle Ages (XIII-XV)
Cnaudin
27. The West and Islam (seventh to ninth century)
Cnaudin
28. The order of Cluny in the Middle Ages
Cnaudin
29. Medieval Catalonia
Cnaudin
30. The fall of Constantinople (May 29, 1453)
Cnaudin
31. The status of women in the Middle Ages (1 / 2)
Viviane
32. The status of women in the Middle Ages (2 / 2)
Viviane
33. Italian rule in the western Mediterranean (1 / 2)
Cnaudin
34. Italian rule in the western Mediterranean (2 / 2)
Cnaudin
35. The founding of the Knights Templar (January 13, 1129)
Cnaudin
36. Medicine and remedies of the Middle Ages
Viviane
37. The investiture controversy: the assembly of Worms (January 24, 1076)
Cnaudin
38. Muslim Sicily
Cnaudin
39. The body of the woman in the Middle Ages
Roman Borgna
40. The book: a ​​love of the Middle Ages
viviane
41. The time of the knights in Europe
Viviane
42. The dhimmis in medieval Islam (1 / 2)
Cnaudin
43. The dhimmis in medieval Islam (2 / 2)
Cnaudin
44. The Italian Wars (1 / 2)
Cnaudin
45. The trades of the Middle Ages (1 / 2)
Viviane
46. The trades of the Middle Ages (2 / 2)
Viviane
47. The Mozarabic in Al Andalus (VIII-XI) 1 / 2
Cnaudin
48. The Mozarabic in Al Andalus (VIII-XI) 2 / 2
Cnaudin
49. The Normans in the Mediterranean (1): pilgrims and mercenaries
Cnaudin
50. The Normans in the Mediterranean (2): the conquerors
Cnaudin
51. The Normans in the Mediterranean (3): The Kingdom of Sicily
Cnaudin
52. The Normans in the Mediterranean (4): East and Holy Land
Cnaudin
53. The Normans in the Mediterranean (5): the end of the dream
Cnaudin
54. The Sicilian Vespers (30 and 31 March 1282)
Kara Iskandar
55. Louis XI and the arts
Cnaudin
56. Richard Coeur de Lion slain (April 6, 1199)
Kara Iskandar
57. Saladin, an Arab hero?
Cnaudin
58. Minstrels and troubadours: Music in the Middle Ages
Viviane
59. Travel and wonders in the Middle Ages (1 / 2)
Cnaudin
60. Travel and wonders in the Middle Ages (2 / 2)
Cnaudin

The Renaissance discoveries and reforms

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charlesquint3 The Renaissance, intellectual ferment and religious conflicts. The birth of European expansionism and the discovery of new worlds. Dissemination of knowledge and expansion of the market economy.
# Articles published Author
1. Elizabeth Bathory: Countess bloody
Magellan
2. Feasts and cuisine of the Renaissance
Viviane
3. The Universal Empire of Charles V
Magellan
4. The interview of the Field of Cloth of Gold (1520)
The Brinvilliers
5. The Pazzi conspiracy (1478)
Roman Borgna
6. The peace of Cateau-Cambrai (April 3, 1559)
Kara Iskandar
7. Peace Women: the Treaty of Cambrai (1529)
The Brinvilliers
8. Reasons of state (XVI - XVII centuries)
Roman Borgna
9. The Venetian jurisdictionalism in modern times
Roman Borgna
10. The mirror for princes (ᵉ IX - XVI centuries ᵉ)
Roman Borgna
11. The world at the time of the Borgias
Cnaudin
12. The Venetian patriciate in modern times
Roman Borgna
13. The Prince of the Renaissance
Cnaudin
14. The prince, arts and Death (fourteenth to sixteenth centuries)
Cnaudin
15. The Americas before the conquest
Cnaudin
16. The Borgia: A family of Renaissance
The Brinvilliers
17. The Italian wars (2 / 2)
Cnaudin
18. The popes, Rome and the Arts (XV-XVII centuries)
Cnaudin
19. Pizarro, Atahualpa and the fall of the Inca Empire (1532)
Einhard

The Enlightenment

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Frederic_II_de_prusse The Enlightenment. Emergence and decline of the intellectual society of orders. The war in Lace, the revolutionary upheavals, building a new model of values ​​and institutions that shape the world even today.
# Articles published Author
1. Freemasonry, Enlightenment and the Crisis of the Old Regime
Cnaudin
2. The Europe of the Enlightenment
Magellan
3. The Declaration of Independence of the United States (July 4, 1776)
Kara Iskandar
4. The true story of Red Rackham! (Jack Rackham)
Desaix
5. The Prince, sciences and technology (fifteenth to eighteenth centuries)
Cnaudin
6. Law system and the crash of 1720
The Brinvilliers
7. The execution of Admiral Byng and the British naval power
Einhard
8. Birth of Britain (1 May 1707)
Kara Iskandar
9. When America was French (New France)
Magellan

The nineteenth century

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Fort_sumter_1861 The nineteenth century between Napoleon and epic rise of national fact. Colonial empires and the beginnings of a future superpower: the United States of America. The Industrial Revolution, the major technical and scientific advances.
# Articles published Author
1. Civil War: the beginning of the blockade of the Union
Einhard
2. Civil War: the Trent Affair
Einhard
3. Civil War: Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 (1 / 2)
Einhard
4. Civil War: Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 (2 / 2)
Einhard
5. Civil War: the battle for Fort Sumter (1 / 4)
Einhard
6. Civil War: the battle for Fort Sumter (2 / 4)
Einhard
7. Civil War: the battle for Fort Sumter (3 / 4)
Einhard
8. Civil War: the battle for Fort Sumter (4 / 4)
Einhard
9. Civil War: the hard fall of the Union
Einhard
10. Civil War: the difficult beginnings of General Lee
Einhard
11. Civil War: Strategies
Einhard
12. Civil War, the struggle for the border states: Virginia
Einhard
13. Civil War, the struggle for the border states: Kentucky
Einhard
14. Civil War, the struggle for the border states: Maryland
Einhard
15. Civil War, the struggle for the U.S. Border: Missouri
Einhard
16. The U.S. presidential election 1860
Einhard
17. The British Empire in Asia
Cnaudin
18. Europe is divided Africa (February 26, 1885)
Magellan
19. The Secession Winter, 1860-1861 (1 / 2)
Einhard
20. The Secession Winter, 1860-1861 (2 / 2)
Einhard
21. The conquest of the West: the expansion of the United States
Lucretia
22. The end of the Congress of Vienna (June 9, 1815)
Kara Iskandar
23. The geography of the United States on the eve of the Civil War
Einhard
24. British power in the nineteenth century
Cnaudin
25. The Vienna Stefan Zweig (1881-1914)
Sponsor
26. The massacre at Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890)
Cnaudin
27. Native Americans in the Civil War
Einhard
28. The armies of the Civil War (1 / 7)
Einhard
29. The armies of the Civil War (2 / 7)
Einhard
30. The armies of the Civil War (3 / 7)
Einhard
31. The armies of the Civil War (4 / 7)
Einhard
32. The armies of the Civil War (5 / 7)
Einhard
33. The armies of the Civil War (6 / 7)
Einhard
34. The armies of the Civil War (7 / 7)
Einhard
35. Weapons of the Civil War: Artillery
Einhard
36. Weapons of the Civil War: Infantry
Einhard
37. Weapons of the Civil War: the cavalry
Einhard
38. Causes of the Civil War
Einhard
39. The Freemasons of the Grand Army
Desaix
40. The tactics of the Civil War (1 / 5)
Einhard
41. The tactics of the Civil War (2 / 5)
Einhard
42. The tactics of the Civil War (3 / 5)
Einhard
43. The tactics of the Civil War (4 / 5)
Einhard
44. The tactics of the Civil War (5 / 5)
Einhard
45. Uniforms of the Civil War (1 / 3)
Einhard
46. The black ships of Perry opened Japan (1853)
Kara Iskandar
47. Simon Bolivar: The Liberator of Latin America
Plok
48. Theodor Herzl and Zionism (February 15, 1896)
Kara Iskandar

The twentieth century

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Discours_roosevelt The twentieth century. Clash of nations, rise of totalitarianism and major ideological conflicts. Peak and decline of colonial empires, the emergence of the communication society, technological and industrial changes.
# Articles published Author
1. Latin America (1): coups and dictatorships (60's 70's)
Bastet
2. Latin America (2): support of the CIA and anti-(70's 80's)
Bastet
3. Castro became president of Cuba (February 16, 1959)
Kara Iskandar
4. China's "Great Leap Forward" (May 1958)
Kara Iskandar
5. Ernesto Che Guevara: A Life, a myth
Plok
6. Guernica (26 April 1937)
Cnaudin
7. The Gulag Archipelago (April 7, 1930)
Kara Iskandar
8. The story of Bonnie & Clyde
Kara Iskandar
9. The financial and economic crisis of 1929
Dallas
10. The end of the Hindenburg (May 6, 1937)
Kara Iskandar
11. The end of the French protectorate in Morocco (March 2, 1956)
Magellan
12. The death of Stalin (March 5, 1953)
Kara Iskandar
13. The Night of Long Knives (June 30, 1934)
Kara Iskandar
14. Spartacist revolt (1918-1919)
Kara Iskandar
15. The revolution broke out in Russia (March 8, 1917)
Kara Iskandar
16. On February 6, 1934
Kara Iskandar
17. US Congress adopts the Marshall Plan (31 March 1948)
Kara Iskandar
18. The cult of the leader: Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler
Bastet
19. The Armenian genocide begins (April 24, 1915)
Kara Iskandar
20. The Warsaw Pact (May 14, 1955)
Kara Iskandar
21. The coup of the Greek colonels (April 21, 1967)
Kara Iskandar
22. The Titanic sank (14-15 April 1912)
Kara Iskandar
23. The Cambridge Five
Plok
24. The beginnings of McCarthyism (9 February 1950)
Kara Iskandar
25. Women in war
Viviane
26. The emergence of Japan in Asia
Magellan
27. Martin Luther King assassinated (April 4, 1968)
Kara Iskandar
28. Sétif massacre, the other 8 May 45
Cnaudin
29. Birth of the Arab League (March 22, 1945)
Kara Iskandar
30. Roosevelt announces the "New Deal" (March 4, 1933)
Kara Iskandar
31. Yasser Arafat as head of the PLO (February 5, 1969)
Magellan

World War I

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bataille_somme World War I, peak and decline of European domination. The comparison systems of alliances, leaders, strategies and materials. The race to the sea to the armistice of November, through the Russian revolution and U.S. intervention.

# Articles published Author
1. 14 -18: The Hartmannswillerkopf, the man-eating
Nerghal
2. Beginning of the Battle of Verdun (21 February 1916)
Kara Iskandar
3. The Chemin des Dames (April 16, 1917)
Kara Iskandar
4. The Treaty of Brest-Litvosk (March 3, 1918)
Magellan
5. The Allies landed at Gallipoli (25 April 1915)
Kara Iskandar
6. Tanks in the Great War (1 / 5)
Rayan
7. Tanks in the Great War (2 / 5)
Rayan
8. Tanks in the Great War (3 / 5)
Rayan
9. Tanks in the Great War (4 / 5)
Rayan
10. Tanks in the Great War (5 / 5)
Rayan

World War II

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rommel voiture World War II, the Eastern Front, the Pacific Islands through the sands of North Africa, strategies, major land battles and naval, the main leaders of the Axis and the Allies.
# Articles published Author
1. May 8, 1945: the German surrender
Cnaudin
2. Sink the Bismarck!
Cnaudin
3. The Nazi-Soviet pact in Katyn massacre
Rayan
4. June 1940: defeated France
Cnaudin
5. The call of June 18, 1940
Kara Iskandar
6. The escape of the battleship Jean Bart (June 20, 1940)
Cnaudin
7. Operation Dynamo, May-June 1940
Kara Iskandar
8. The Battle of Monte Cassino (May 17, 1944)
Kara Iskandar
9. The capitulation of Paulus at Stalingrad (January 31, 1943)
Kara Iskandar
10. The surrender of Japan (September 2, 1945)
Cnaudin
11. The Fall of Mussolini (24-25 July 1943)
Kara Iskandar
12. The Potsdam Conference (July 1945)
Kara Iskandar
13. The Wannsee Conference (January 20, 1942)
Kara Iskandar
14. the Yalta Conference (February 4, 1945)
Kara Iskandar
15. The end of Repulse and Prince of Wales (December 1941)
Cnaudin
16. The Maginot Line: symbol of defeat (1 / 2)
Daska
17. The Maginot Line: symbol of defeat (2 / 2)
Daska
18. The bombing of Dresden (February 13, 1945)
Kara Iskandar
19. The Graf Spee and the Battle of River Plate
Cnaudin
20. The Katyn massacre, a symbol of Soviet barbarism
MVerchot
21. The Doolittle raid on Tokyo (1942)
Cnaudin
22. The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, pirates in the North Sea
Cnaudin
23. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943)
Kara Iskandar
24. The Yamato battleships Cursed King
Cnaudin
25. May-June 1940, at Sedan in Dunkirk (1 / 2)
Cnaudin
26. May-June 1940, from Sedan to Dunkirk (2 / 2)
Cnaudin
27. Mers-el-Kebir: the drama of the French Navy
Cnaudin
28. Operation Jubilee: the landing at Dieppe (August 1942)
Kara Iskandar
29. Operation Valkyrie: the attempt against Hitler (July 20, 1944)
Kara Iskandar
30. Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941, the "day of infamy"
Cnaudin
31. Rommel and the Afrika Korps
Kara Iskandar

Recent history and contemporary

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chute_du_mur_de_berlin1 The History of the World and France since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Between the American superpower and multipolarity, the emergence of a world and companies 'network'.
# Articles published Author
1. The clash of civilizations the clash of religions
Cnaudin
2. Egypt: Between Islamist opposition and postislamisme
Cnaudin
3. U.S. and China: Tibetan spine
Kara Iskandar
4. Gorbachev, last leader of the USSR (March 11, 1985)
Kara Iskandar
5. War in former Yugoslavia: the origins of the conflict
Eulben
6. Contemporary history of convictions and political activity
Rayan
7. The assassination of Olof Palme (February 28, 1986)
Kara Iskandar
8. The assassination of Aldo Moro (May 9, 1978)
Kara Iskandar
9. The history of the CIA from its creation in September 11
Plok
10. The war in former Yugoslavia: the independence of Slovenia
Eulben
11. The bloody hostage-taking of the Olympic Games in Munich (1972)
Kara Iskandar
12. The Stasi, the story of a political police (RDA)
Plok
13. On September 11, 2001, subject to history
Cnaudin
14. Cambodia Kmmers of red (April 17, 1975)
Kara Iskandar
15. The Nuremberg Trials: Judge for the story?
Kara Iskandar
16. The Americans left Vietnam (March 29, 1973)
Kara Iskandar
17. Egypt at the Crossroads (1920-1930)
Cnaudin
18. Berlin Wall: wild night of November 9, 1989
Magellan
19. Nelson Mandela released (February 11, 1990)
Kara Iskandar
20. Salvador Allende and the coup of Augusto Pinochet
Kara Iskandar
21. Signing of the Camp David (26 March 1979)
Kara Iskandar

The history of space exploration

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terre-lune The history of space exploration, the early days of Sputnik to the International Space Station. Relive the major stages of this extraordinary adventure that led man in space and on the moon.
# Articles published Author
1. Man, Space and the Moon (1961-1981)
Dallas

History of European

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charlemagne_1 History of European construction. Of the Carolingian Empire in the Franco-German couple, how and why Europe has been built in which we live?.
# Articles published Author
1. The first enlargement of the EEC (1 January 1973)
Bastet
2. Charlemagne, Father of Europe?
Magellan
3. Treaty of Rome: Birth of the EEC (25 March 1957)
Kara Iskandar

History of Science and Technology

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voiture_ancienne History of science and technology: the great inventions, the technology revolution.
# Articles published Author
1. History of Inventions: Land Transport
Dallas
2. The beginnings of the press photography
Bastet
3. Translations in medieval Spain
Cnaudin
4. Fishing in the modern era
Roman Borgna