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The Helots, slave warriors of Ancient Sparta
The ancient Greek city-state of Sparta had a strict social hierarchy . The top of the social pyramid was occupied by the two kings, whose powers were checked by a ‘council of elders’.
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French Revolution - Estates General of 1789
The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate)...
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War of Candia – Sixth Ottoman - Venetian War
The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian War is better known, was a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her allies against the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States...
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Evidence of an Anglo-Saxon Alliance
The Watlington hoard, found in Oxfordshire in 2015, is a gift to the historian. It dates from the 870s: a decade which saw Alfred the Great face and, after some near misses, stave off a Viking invasion of Wessex...
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Extintion Event : The Black Death
The disastrous mortal disease known as the Black Death spread across Europe in the years 1346-53. Chronicles and letters from the time describe the terror wrought by the illness.
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Charlemagne's Saxon Wars
The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of more than thirty years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of disaffected tribesmen was crushed.
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Causes of World War I : Alliance System from Bismarck to the Entente Cordiale
System of alliances
The alliance system was started by Bismarck, the German Chancellor from 1871 to 1890. Bismarck held that Germany was a "satiated state"....
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The Rise and Fall of the Borgia Family
The Borgias are the most infamous family of Renaissance Italy, and their history normally hinges around four key individuals....
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