The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken
In 410 ce, Rome fell to an army of nomadic Germanic peoples 'Visigoths' who pillaged the city over the course of three days. Although Rome had already ceased to be the capital of the Western Roman Empire and the destruction was relatively restrained, the sack sent shock waves across the world. Changes known as the Migration Period, or the Barbarian Invasions, were then taking place, with great movements of peoples across all of Eurasia, from China to Britain.
Did you know?
- Paul Revere Never Actually Shouted, "The British Are Coming!"
- Pope Gregory IV Declared a War On Cats
- Women Were Once Banned from Smoking in Public
- The Government Literally Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition
- The Titanic's Owners Never Said the Ship Was "Unsinkable"
- There Were More Than 600 Plots to Kill Fidel Castro
- Columbus Didn't Actually Discover America
- Marie Antoinette Never Said, "Let Them Eat Cake"
- Turkeys Were Once Worshipped Like Gods
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal
There has been no more daring assertion of statehood than that proclaimed by the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 and signed by all 56 delegates present.
The Long March is a manifesto, a propaganda force, a seeding-machine
In the autumn of 1933, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was on the brink of annihilation. Nationalists had taken control of the country and launched a major attack against their base in Jiangxi, a southeastern province.
There is nothing impossible to he who will try
In one of the fastest and most daring military expansions in history, Alexander the Great, the young king of Macedon in the Balkans, blazed a trail of conquest across most of the known world of his day.
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack
On September 11, 2001, a group of Islamic extremists launched a devastating attack against the US.
All the lands have fallen prostrate beneath his sandals for eternity
Around 1264 bce, the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II (c.1278–1237 bce) had two mighty temples hewn out of the cliffs on the west bank of the Nile in southern Egypt.
I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed
Venetian merchant Marco Polo’s arrival at Chengdu, the capital of the Great Khan Kublai, in 1275 marked the end of a four-year journey.