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Aboriginal Religions
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Aboriginal Religions

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The original human migration to Australia is believed to have occurred around 40,000 years ago when a land bridge linked the Australian continent to Asia in the north. Genetic evidence supports the probability of migration from the north, as the genetic profile of Australian Aborigines displays some similarities to the... More
Blériot flies the English Channel July 1909
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Blériot flies the English Channel July 1909

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Louis Blériot started out with as the proprietor of a business manufacturing headlamps for automobiles in Paris, but his real enthusiasm was an even newer transport innovation, the aeroplane. Profits from his business afforded him the time and finance to experiment with aviation. His first flying machines were ornithopters, with... More
Cultural Revolution in China  1966–76
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Cultural Revolution in China  1966–76

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Following many years of poverty and famine, in 1966 the Communist leader Mao Zedong launched ‘the (Great Proletarian) Cultural Revolution’ in an attempt to recentralize his position in the party, to reinvigorate its Marxist ideology, and to combat reactionary, capitalist tendencies. Cadres of young, zealous ‘Red Guards’ were recruited around... More
Etruscan Expansion 575 BCE
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Etruscan Expansion 575 BCE

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Etruscan civilization had its roots in coastal central Italy and was flourishing by 600 BCE. The Etruscans were traders who mined, and sold, valuable minerals such as copper and iron. By 600 BCE, influenced by the Greek model, they formed themselves into twelve city-states, each a political unit. They expanded... More
Harlem 1913-30
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Harlem 1913-30

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Harlem’s black population numbered about 10,000, concentrated in tenements around 130th Street, in a prevailingly Jewish and Italian neighbourhood. The property price crash of 1904-05 created a glut of housing in the area which black real estate entrepreneurs remedied by the mass supply of black tenants: by 1910, 10 per... More
Humanism in Renaissance Italy c. 1500
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Humanism in Renaissance Italy c. 1500

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The Renaissance began as a secular scholarly project to rediscover the knowledge, art, and literature of the classical world, unfiltered by the clerical lens that had constrained intellectual enquiry during the Middle Ages. It became known as studia humanitatis, or the study of the ‘humanities’, as opposed to the classical... More
India of the Puranas: Cultural Regions c. 500
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India of the Puranas: Cultural Regions c. 500

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The Puranas are Sanskrit texts, written during ancient India’s golden age c. 500 CE. While these narratives, written in couplets, describe the cosmology of the Hindu universe and the genealogy of gods, kings and the first humans (Manus), they also provide historical insights into the regional composition of India during... More
Isle of Man in the Bronze Age 2000-600 BCE
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Isle of Man in the Bronze Age 2000-600 BCE

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It is thought that the beginning of the Bronze Age on the Isle of Man (c. 2000–600 BCE) was ignited by an influx of migrants from continental Europe who arrived on the island via Britain. Not only did these settlers bring metal-working and bronze artefacts to the island, but they... More
Japan and East Asia 600–900
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Japan and East Asia 600–900

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The exchanges of embassies with China played a critical role in the development of Japanese culture and society, and many Chinese methods and ideologies were readily adopted. The fall of the Later Han dynasty in 220 CE and China’s subsequent unstable structure of regional kingdoms halted early exchanges. During this... More
Mycenaean Cultural Influence 1600-1100 BCE
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Mycenaean Cultural Influence 1600-1100 BCE

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Mycenaean Greece dominated the Greek mainland, the Aegean Islands and the shores of Asia Minor, amalgamating various peoples into a homogenous culture that had influence that reached, at its furthest extent, to the Levant and Sicily. The Mycenaeans were accomplished sailors, who traded olive oil and ceramic vessels for gold,... More
Nubia After the New Kingdom from 1550 BCE
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Nubia After the New Kingdom from 1550 BCE

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Egypt reached its peak of power and prosperity during the New Kingdom, but by the 11th century BCE, Egypt was in decline. With most of its empire gone and exhausted by conflicts, it finally lost its grip on a rebellious Nubia. Now divided into two dynasties, and run by ‘barbarian’... More
Printing Presses in Europe c. 1450
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Printing Presses in Europe c. 1450

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Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith in Mainz, who managed, after years of painstaking experiment, to perfect the manufacture of small metal movable type. Guttenberg produced 200 copies of his revolutionary 42-line Bible in 1453. The new technology took off, and by 1461 a rival in Bamberg, Albrecht Pfister, had produced... More