The Immortals were the heavy infantry unit of the Achaemenid Empire’s army. Also known as…
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The Maori people of New Zealand came from eastern Polynesia in waves of canoes sometime…
Every kid who ever took a history class has sat there, looking at the images…
As TopTenz has covered in other articles, the past was in some ways so much…
The Aztec Empire started sometime around the mid-1350s in what is now Mexico. It was…
Ancient Egypt has long been a fascinating subject not only to historians, but to average…
Some 80,000 years ago, our planet began to cool, heralding the dawn of the last…
They’re the guys with the thousand yard stare. The one with six-shooters in their holsters,…
Throughout history, a nation or empire is only as strong as its military forces. Growth…
As Mark Twain famously put it, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” And so it is with…
Present day researchers don’t think the Vikings, who were groups of unorganized clans living in…
Flags have been around for a very long time. You probably saw a bunch of…
Historians usually agree that the first modern submarine was the one constructed and successfully tested…
One thing humans have always done is hurt and fight each other. Over the thousands…
The further back we look through history, the more diverse the people are. This isn’t…
A short while ago we published a list (and a video) about the oft-romanticized samurai…
When most people are asked to name the most brutal and murderous leaders in history,…
The hellfire and brimstone that dominates most people’s versions of Hell is all well and good, except such fantasies pale in comparisons to the many times we’ve put ourselves through real-life Hell since the dawn of civilization. These are times when even Satan saw what we were doing to ourselves and simply said, “Damn.”
Today, America celebrates its independence. But this was not the only noteworthy event to occur on July 4th. As it turns out, this has been an extremely busy day for centuries.
Large predators are feared because they’re so efficient at killing. Humans think they’re the apex…
Dictator. We have very negative connotations of the word. It brings to mind oppressive regimes,…
America’s political system is designed to always pull toward the center. You have two parties…
Starting a business is hard enough, but making one thrive and survive, even for a…
Well before the 1900s, a temperance movement had been slowly gaining steam, powered by many…