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4 hours ago · The Vandals conquer Corsica from the Western Roman Empire. 435: The Vandals establish the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa. 439: The Vandals take Carthage. c. 440: Attila the Hun establishes the Hunnic Empire north of the Danube. 451–453: The Huns attack the Western Roman Empire. c. 455: The Kingdom of Kent is founded. Canterbury is the capital ...
1 day ago · The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. While Jerusalem had been under Muslim rule for hundreds of years, by the 11th century the Seljuk takeover ...
1 day ago · The House of Habsburg-Lorraine retained Austria and attached possessions after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire; see below. A son of Leopold II was Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria whose wife was from the House of Savoy; a daughter Adelaide, Queen of Sardinia was the wife of King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia and King of Italy.
1 day ago · The fall of the Hasmonean Kingdom marked an end to a century of Jewish self-governance, but Jewish nationalism and desire for independence continued under Roman rule, beginning with the Census of Quirinius in CE 6 and leading to a series of Jewish-Roman wars in the 1st–2nd centuries, including the Great Revolt (CE 66–73), the Kitos War (115 ...
1 day ago · Illustration representing Cecil Rhodes' plan of building railways across Africa, connecting Cape Town and Cairo, aimed at extending the British Empire. Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural ...
1 day ago · The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The eastern half of the Empire survived the conditions that caused the fall of the West in the 5th century AD, and continued to exist until the fall of Constantinople ...
1 day ago · Erotic literature and art See also: Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum Romantic scene from a mosaic (Villa at Centocelle, Rome, 20 BC–20 AD) Ancient literature pertaining to Roman sexuality falls mainly into four categories: legal texts; medical texts; poetry; and political discourse. Forms of expression with lower cultural cachet in antiquity—such as comedy, satire, invective, love ...
