Mark Twain – American literature
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Who was Mark Twain? He lived in the United States in the late 1800s AD, and he wrote books for both children and grown-ups. His real name was [...]
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Who was Mark Twain? He lived in the United States in the late 1800s AD, and he wrote books for both children and grown-ups. His real name was [...]
American literature: Rock Art from Utah, about 1700 AD Native American languages In 1500 AD, people living in North America spoke many different languages. None of them were written down. Many of these [...]
Margaret Cavendish Who was Margaret Cavendish? Margaret Cavendish was a little younger than Hobbes and Descartes, but she knew both men. She had many philosophical debates with them when they were all living [...]
Reproduction of a press from Gutenberg's time The invention of the European printing press with moveable type in northern Europe in the late 1400s AD was no accident: publishers had set out to find [...]
These Buddhist figures are made of mammoth ivory An early Chinese travel novel Wu Cheng'en (probably) wrote his novel, A Journey to the West, in the Ming Dynasty, in [...]
A Chinese novel of the Ming Dynasty During the later Ming Dynasty, in the 1500s AD, a man named Xu Zhonglin wrote a novel called Fengshen Yanyi. The main character is Ji [...]