The Islamic Empires like many other empires rose to become and influence on future societies. The Islamic Empire expanded far beyond its Arabian homeland, bringing Sasanid Pe...
The Ottoman Empire was the longest lasting Islamic dynasty existing from the end of the thirteenth century to mid twentieth century. It would become one of th...
Thus cries the distraught Othello, in Shakespeare's play of the same name, on observing dissension in his own ranks. His turn of phrase brings again to mind the Turks, those s...
Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506), Italian Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making landfall in the...
The Romans were one of the greatest civilisations in the world’s history. I am going to look at the establishment of the Roman Empire, the political system under the Republi...
Introduction
The emperor Constantine has rightly been called the most important emperor of Late Antiquity. His powerful personality made his reign very eventful and highly dr...
: An Inexorable Consequence
When Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five criticisms to a door of a church in Wittenberg in 1517, he anticipated it would lead to a...
Crime & Punishment
Quotations:
"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may b...