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City-States and Colonies
The two hundred years after 800 B.C. saw a great expansion of the Greeks by colonisation. Colonisation is a more
The Migration
The “Dark Age” of Greece (c. 1100 – 800) was a time of migration and settlement. Whole peoples were in
Was there a Trojan War?
Parts of the story of the Trojan War are told in two poems the Iliad (Ilium = Troy) and the
Early Civilizations to Modern Age
The Crusades 1096-1260
ON A COLD NOVEMBER DAY IN 1096, a great crowd of people gathered in a field at the town of
The Town and the Guild 1100 -1382
ONE FINE SPRING MORNING, in the French town of Troyes, in the county of Champagne, a bell rang out through
The Hundred Years War 1326-1477
THE LONG STRUGGLE between France and England, known to history as the Hundred Years’ War, was not really a war
Distant Past and New Challenges
Milestones of History
Toledo falls, marking the end of Islam in Spain (1077 – 1100)
Toledo falls and this marks the beginning of the end of Islam in Spain. A triumph for orthodoxy The events