Late Middle Ages – history of Europe
Burying people who died of plague - the Late Middle Ages The Mongol Empire In the Late Middle Ages, the Mongol Empire brought peace to most of Asia, and encouraged trade along the Silk [...]
Burying people who died of plague - the Late Middle Ages The Mongol Empire In the Late Middle Ages, the Mongol Empire brought peace to most of Asia, and encouraged trade along the Silk [...]
Republic of Genoa: Medieval drawing of the city of Genoa, Italy (1493) Genoa in the Early Middle Ages Around 900 AD, the Holy Roman Empire began to lose control of Italy, and Genoa was [...]
Turkomen on the Silk Road with camels Just like under Persian or Sassanian rule, the economy of West Asia during the Islamic period depended very heavily on trade. The Silk Road ran right across the Islamic Empire. It [...]
Indian sailing: an Indus River boat from the Bronze Age (ca. 2500 BC) The first boats in India The first people to come to India from Africa, about 50,000 BC, may have come [...]
Reconstruction of the Antikythera trading ship Many Greek men were traders, who sold things from one place to people who lived some place else. Greek traders sailed all around the Mediterranean Sea, from [...]
Greek ships: A sailing ship with rowers at the oars Early Greek sailing Because Greece was so mountainous, and every place in Greece was so close to the sea, a lot of [...]
Theseus and the Minotaur - Athenian black-figure vase, ca. 550 BC Who was Theseus? According to the Greek story, Prince Theseus was the son of King Aegeus of Athens, not too [...]
Mongol herdsman Hunting wild animals The first people moved into Central Asia about 50,000 BC. They were probably following the big animals that they hunted for food and leather skins [...]