Prince and the Pauper project
Edward VI Mark Twain wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" about the young prince Edward in the days just before and just after the death of his father, Henry VIII. You can learn [...]
Edward VI Mark Twain wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" about the young prince Edward in the days just before and just after the death of his father, Henry VIII. You can learn [...]
Carrying a puppet of Guy Fawkes to burn him What's the Guy Fawkes' day verse? There's a famous verse about Guy Fawkes' plot to blow up the King of England and the [...]
Germany during the Depression Why was Europe suddenly poor? After World War I, Europe was much poorer than it had been before the war. Many men had been killed in [...]
James I of England James I of England When Queen Elizabeth died in 1603 AD, she left England in very good shape. Because Elizabeth had no children, she left power to her nephew [...]
Napoleon III - his capture led to the Third Republic Germany against France By the 1860s, France was nervously watching as the German states and Prussia combined into one country [...]
British colonialist in a litter carried by local men After Napoleon Napoleon's empire in Europe ended a lot of the old powers. But when Napoleon lost power in 1815 AD, rich men [...]
Leopold's son Francis II Leopold attacks France Joseph II of Austria died at 48 in 1790 AD, just before the French Revolution. His younger brother Leopold II took power. The new French government [...]
Charles VI (Maria Theresa's father) After the War: Charles VI By the time the War of the Spanish Succession was over in 1714 AD, Leopold had died, and left Austria to his son, Joseph, who [...]
Leopold More Austro-Hungarian Empire In the 1650s, most people in Europe thought of Austria as a place where instead of freedom they had rules that everyone had to be the same, and [...]
Ferdinand (1556) Charles V made his brother Ferdinand the ruler of Austria-Hungary in 1556 AD. But when Ferdinand died in 1564, he divided Austria-Hungary among his three sons. Each of those [...]