History

Tikal is an archaeological site which was one of the urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya Civilization. It was the capital of a conquest state and which also became one of the most powerful kingdoms of ancient Mayans. It was the...

Alcatraz was the supermax federal prison. It is famously known for its forbidding structure and its nickname of ‘The Rock’. It was originally a fort and declared a military reservation in 1850 by President Millard Fillmore. In...

The term Apartheid originated in South Africa. This African word means ‘apartness’ or ‘the state of being apart’. It was the social and political policy of racial discrimination in South Africa imposed by the white...

Maya Civilization is one of the best-known classical civilizations of Mesoamerica. This sophisticated civilization was made up of more than 19 million people. It influenced even future empires. The Maya Civilization dates back 4,000 years, around 2,000 BC. The beginning of this civilization is...

In the year of 1994, a mass slaughter took place in Rwanda of the ethnic Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu people. Rwanda was a small country with a strong agricultural economy. At the time of Rwandan Genocide, this country had one of the highest population densities in

The Inca Empire is also known as the Incan Empire. It was considered the largest empire of pre-Columbian America. It existed in modern day Peru. Manco Capac was the one who established this empire in 1438. It extended across Western...

The term Holocaust has been derived from the Greek word ‘holokaustan’ that means ‘sacrifice by fire’. It was Nazis’ persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. It began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in

The people who are known as Anglo-Saxons were immigrants from northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. This name is collectively applied to a group of...

Mesopotamia can be defined as an ancient land that hosted a diverse and rich culture far back in history. It is also known as the ‘land between rivers’ as it was located between two major rivers, Euphrates and Tigris. Today, these two

Saint Patrick was a Christian missionary and a patron saint of Ireland. His birth name was Maewyn Succat but he changed his name after becoming a priest. He was not Irish as most people think. He was born in a Roman British family...