The Crusades: A Complete History | History Today
WEBMay 5, 2015 · The First Crusade was called in November 1095 by Pope Urban II at the town of Clermont in central France. The pope made a proposal: 'Whoever for devotion alone, but not to gain honour or money, goes to Jerusalem to liberate the Church of God can substitute this journey for all penance.'.
The Death of Mahatma Gandhi - History Today
WEBT he 20th century’s most famous apostle of non-violence himself met a violent end. Mohandas Mahatma (‘the great soul’) Gandhi, who had taken a leading role in spearheading the campaign for independence from Britain, hailed the partition of the sub-continent into the separate independent states of India and Pakistan in August 1947 as …
The Language of the Roman Empire | History Today
WEBNov 11, 2017 · Latin may be the language that we associate with the Roman Empire, but the question of whether the Romans spoke Latin does not have a simple answer. Rome grew from a tiny community in the middle of a culturally diverse peninsula into an empire that reached from Britain to Syria. As Rome’s power spread, Romans interacted with …
George Stephenson's First Steam Locomotive | History Today
WEBJul 7, 2014 · A milestone in railway transportation, George Stephenson's first steam train was unveiled on July 25th, 1814. Within a few years of his death in 1848 George Stephenson was called ‘the father of the railways’, but that accolade has been challenged because there were other engineers involved in the development of the world’s first …
Native Americans and the Federal Government | History Today
WEBWhite Americans, headed by the federal government, were the ‘bad guys’, cheating Indians out of their land and resources. Native Americans were the ‘good guys’, attempting to maintain a traditional way of life much more in harmony with nature and the environment than the rampant capitalism of white America, but powerless to defend their ...
The Man Who Invented Pi | History Today
WEBJul 7, 2009 · William Jones, mathematician from Wales, 1740. The history of the constant ratio of the circumference to the diameter of any circle is as old as man's desire to measure; whereas the symbol for this ratio known today as π (pi) dates from the early 18th century. Before this the ratio had been awkwardly referred to in medieval Latin as: quantitas ...
The Opium Wars - History Today
WEBJun 6, 2012 · The wars of 1839-42 and 1856-60 are a perfect case study of the divergence of opinion that the British Empire continues to generate. Julia Lovell | Published in History Today Volume 62 Issue 6 June 2012. Combat at Guangzhou (Canton) during the Second Opium War. Despite Niall Ferguson’s efforts in 2003 to partially rehabilitate British ...
Why Early Christians Were Persecuted by the Romans
WEBThe real basis was the popular suspicion, contempt, and hatred for the early Christians. Without this motivating force it is inconceivable that the persecutions could have occurred. Under Nero (54-68) occurred the first persecution of a ‘new and mischievous superstition’, as Suetonius described it.
What is Confucianism? - History Today
WEBMar 9, 2017 · Stressing the importance of correct behaviour, loyalty and obedience to hierarchy, Confucianism is a system of ethics devised by the Chinese scholar K’ung Fu-tzu (Latinised to Confucius) in sixth century BC China. An itinerant teacher, Confucius (551–479 BC) essentially systematised elements of ancient Chinese philosophy, which were later ...
The Death of Icarus - History Today
WEBApr 4, 2018 · The wax melted, his wings collapsed and he fell fatally into the sea. This ancient Greek myth was narrated by the Roman poet Ovid in Metamorphoses and has inspired numerous authors, including Shakespeare, Milton and James Joyce, whose semi-autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus features in Portrait of the Artist as a Young …
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