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Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210
In which John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign blame to any one of the nations involved. Did the fault lie with Austria-Hungary? Germany? Russia? Julius Caesar? One…
The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War?: Crash Course World History #15
In which John Green teaches you about the Crusades embarked upon by European Christians in the 12th and 13th centuries. Our traditional perception of the Crusades as European Colonization thinly veiled in religion isn't quite right. John covers the…
Църковната политика на земеделския режим в България (1920:1923): реформи, събори, конфликти
През тригодишния период на самостоятелно земеделско управление (1920-1923) се наблюдава радикален опит за налагане на секуларния модел в отношенията църква-държава в България, вписващ се в категориите на модерността. Действията на земеделците,…
100 години от избухването на Първата световна война
Избухване, развитие и военни конфликти по време на Първата Световна война. Описание на най-важните битки и военни сили.
Пътят до Сан Стефано и прелиминарния мирен договор
Подробности и факти от приключването на Руско - Турската война и сключването на Сан-Стефанския мирен договор
Древен Рим
Различни исторически аспекти за Древен Рим. Подробности за медицината, пиратати, колонизирането на Африка, гладиаторите, дипломацията, армията
Science and Superstition: A Landmark Witch Trial
In 1615 Katharina, mother of the great scientist Johannes Kepler, was accused of witchcraft. Ulinka Rublack asks what her landmark trial tells us about early-modern attitudes towards science, nature and the family.
Medieval Europe
PPT/PDF of Tom Richey about franks, feodalism end knights. The feudal system is a political system that was prevalent in Europe in between the eighth and fourteenth centuries. Most of the agricultural society was largely supported by the feudal…
The Road to Runnymede
Magna Carta was born of the loss of King John’s French territories and his increasingly desperate – and expensive – attempts to regain them, argues Sean McGlynn.
All that his great men could expect from him was dishonour … He forbade his chief men…
All that his great men could expect from him was dishonour … He forbade his chief men…
How To Write a Good History Essay
The former editor of History Review Robert Pearce gives his personal view.First of all we ought to ask, What constitutes a good history essay? Probably no two people will completely agree, if only for the very good reason that quality is in the eye –…
The World We Have Lost
Too many historians and commentators view history from a western perspective. In doing so, they turn their back on the roots of our global system, argues Peter Frankopan.
The man Who predicted the Great war
Few foresaw the horror of the First World War. The financier Jan Bloch did and in 1901 he outlined his vision to Britain’s military establishment
The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever
Ole J. Benedictow describes how he calculated that the Black Death killed 50 million people in the 14th century, or 60 per cent of Europe’s entire population
