The 1st, 3rd, and 4th Crusades
Along with other sovereign rulers of England and France, Eleanor of Aquitaine and her son, Richard the Lionhearted, lead the charge during …
Viking Expansion
The Vikings were a seafaring people who raided, traded, explored and settled as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in …
Byzantine Empire
After the division of the Roman Empire into two halves, Western and Eastern, the western half was sacked by Barbarian tribes and …
The Roman Empire Divided
When the Roman Empire could no longer sustain itself due of its great size and other management problems, Diocletian split the Roman …
The Roman Empire
While the republic of Rome began in the 8th century BC, it reached its zenith nearly one thousand years later in the …