The Opium War was a turning point in the history of not only China but also the whole world. It was a backfire of imperialism that started from tea, led to opium, and ended in a new worldview. […]
China was a favorable trade destination for big powers in the 1800’s – from fancy goods to tea, to drugs. China, however, had a red line that Britain insisted on passing: drugs. This unfavorable insist led to a war, but was opium itself the only disagreement before the Opium War? […]
In ancient Greece, people were enslaved to do various tasks. Slavery was widely practiced in different regions of the country. However, slavery in Sparta was different from the rest of Greece, so much so that the Spartans had to face a major slave rebellion in their territory for five years. […]
Ancient Greeks exploited the human power of slaves in various aspects of their lives. Since the Greeks despised working for other people, they made their slaves do whatever they considered degrading. However, not all slaves were treated the same, and depending on the type of their work, they enjoyed various degrees of freedom. […]
Slavery in ancient Greece was practiced like a normal phenomenon. The Greeks were not the first nation to introduce slavery, and the idea was so widely accepted that anyone who could afford it, would own a slave. Either a person was born a slave or was made a slave by law. […]
Sometimes a single excavator is responsible for the lion’s share of what we know about a particular period in history. This is the case with Herbert Winlock and the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. So, what were some of his major discoveries from this period? […]
The Montuhoteps engaged in the actual battles to unify Upper and Lower Egypt. The fought with the northerners and sent expeditions to Wadi Hammamat. […]
The First Intermediate Period of ancient Egypt ended in total anarchy and was followed by the rise of the Middle Kingdom. Did the first set of kings of the Middle Kingdom—the Intefs—manage to unify the country once again? […]
Christianity was brought to Ireland before the 5th century. Many preachers, including Saint Patrick, spread the word farther. […]
The early Irish monastic figures played an important role in the spread of Christianity in Ireland and other places in Europe. Some Irish monks set out to sea with the deliberate aim of letting the wind take them wherever it would. Some returned to tell marvelous stories about what they had seen. […]
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