Civilizations

Slavery was a common practice in ancient Greece, as in other societies of the time.

Sparta was a city-state in Ancient Greece built on the banks of the river Evrotas in Laconia in the south-eastern part of the Peloponnese.

The enlightened despotism is a political doctrine, resulting from the ideas of the philosophers of the XVIIIth century, which combines, in the one who has the power, determined force and progressive will.

The Carthaginian civilization or Punic civilization is an ancient civilization located in the Mediterranean basin and at the origin of one of the greatest commercial, cultural and military powers of this region in antiquity.

The Alamanni or Alemanni were an ancient and early medieval population group assigned to the West Germanic cultural area.

The term Baroque was introduced in historiography to classify the stylistic trends that marked architecture painting and sculpture, and by extension poetry and literature between the 17th century and the first half of the 18th.

The Roman Empire was the post-republican period of ancient Roman civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government led by an emperor and extensive territorial possessions around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

The Belgians are a group of ancient populations that occupied northern Gaul, between the English Channel and the left bank of the Rhine, north of the Seine, at least since the third century BC.

The House of Savoy is a dynasty that ruled over the territories of Savoy and Piedmont since the High Middle Ages and provided the kings of Italy from 1861 to 1946.

Renaissance humanism is the modern name for a powerful intellectual current in the Renaissance period, first inspired by Francesco Petrarch.