What do the chronicles tell about?
The most authoritative and well-known sources on the history of Kievan Rus, which help historians to restore the course of events of the past, are Chronicles. You already know that the so-called works in
Hungary in the Middle Ages
The lands between the rivers Tisza and the Danube were inhabited long ago by Slavic tribes and, perhaps, by the ancestors of modern Romanians and Moldavians. At the end of IX c. there were
Muscovy. Yuri Danilovich. Ivan Kalita
At the turn of the XIII-XIV centuries. the great princedoms of the North-East of Russia have broken up into allotments-smaller independent principalities. In the XIV century. strengthened the Moscow and Tver principality. They began
Viking cruelty. Alfred the Great
Germans cruelly treated the Celts, but they themselves suffered from the cruelty of the Vikings, especially the Danes. From the end of the VIII to the middle of the X century. the north-eastern part
England and the Vikings
In the 60-ies of IX century. Vikings, mostly Danes, began to conquer Britain. They captured a significant territory in the north-east of the country and forced the Anglo-Saxons south. The subsequent advancement of the
Children’s Crusade 1212
In 1212, from France and Germany, thousands of your peers, boys and disguised as boys’ clothes, went to the Crusade. They were persuaded by several young preachers who convinced the children that they had
The first decades of Bolshevik power. the USSR
1. What determined the fate of Ukraine in the first decades after the creation of the USSR? In December 1919, Soviet Bolshevik power was established on most of the Ukrainian lands. Thus began the
The Czech Kingdom. Preconditions
At the turn of the IX-X centuries. in the Czech princedom the princely clan of the Přemíslović stands prominently. It Precisely, at the head of the tribal union of the Czechs, laid the foundations
Hinduism is the religion of India
In medieval India, Buddhism gave way to a much simpler and more accessible religion – Hinduism. Why did this happen? First of all, because Buddhism denied caste inequality and thus came into conflict with
Life of the Normans
In the North of Europe lived “northern people” – the Normans. These are the ancestors of the present Norwegians, Danes, Swedes and Icelanders. In Western Europe they were called Vikings, in Russia – by