Xia dynasty
The Xia dynasty finds its source in Chinese historiography, in particular the Classic of Documents.
The Xia dynasty finds its source in Chinese historiography, in particular the Classic of Documents.
The Spring and Autumn period or Chunqiu period designates, in Chinese history, the first part of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, i.e. a period going from about 771 to 481
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman political leader and general and one of the most influential and controversial figures in history.
The Picts were a group of Celtic-speaking peoples who lived in the present-day northern and eastern parts of Scotland, north of the Forth and Clyde rivers, during the late British Iron Age and early medieval periods.
Vague times, or Distemper – a period in Russian history from 1598 to 1613, marked by natural disasters, accompanied by numerous cases of imposture and foreign intervention, civil, Russian-Polish and Russian-Swedish wars, the gravest of state-political and socio-economic crises.
The Treaty of Paris of 1814 is one of the most important peace treaties in European history, also called the “first peace of Paris” after the total defeat of Napoleon I.
Anna Jagiellonka – daughter of Sigismund I the Old and Bona Sforza, queen of Poland since 1575, in 1576 married Stefan Batory, who became iure uxoris king of Poland and exercised actual power; the last Polish monarch of the Jagiellonian dynasty, childless, after the death of her husband led to the election of Sigismund III Vasa, her nephew, as king of Poland.
The Argonauts were a mythological group of about 50 heroes who, under the leadership of Jason, gave birth to one of the best-known and most fascinating narratives in Greek mythology: the adventurous voyage aboard the ship Argo, which will lead them to the hostile lands of Colchis to recapture the Golden Fleece.
Gunnar the son of Hamund, or Gunnar of the End of the Slope, is an Icelandic heuvding, one of the main characters in the Njala Saga, who is also mentioned in other “tribal sagas.
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