In what ways did the Black Death revolutionize the social and economic structure of Europe? How was the peasant revolutions related to these changes? Introduction By the middle of the 14th century, the largest cities of Europe were Paris, Florence, Venice, and Genoa. These were cities wi...
Nazism, or National Socialism, was born at the end of World War One. The war had ended on the 11th of November 1918, when Germany had signed an armistice. The myth prevailed that Germany had been "stabbed in the back- by Marxists and Jews. Nowhere was this stronger than in the surviving soldiers, of...
Beheading, burned at the stake, drawn and quartered, impaling, iron maiden, crucifixion, drowning, blown from a cannon, pendulum, pressing, sawing in half, disembowelment, starvation, stoning, dragging, throat slitting and the list goes on. ...