Category: Middle Ages

Firmly Plants Protestantism in Europe In the history of nations there come moments when a variety...

The Calculus, the Theory of Gravitation, and the Spectrum of Light An apple fell: he watched,...

William Harvey Lays the Basis of Modern Medicine Blood, said the Greek physician Galen in the...

The Founding of the Modern American Nation The willingness of men to accept suffering in every...

The Beginning of British Rule in India At about the same time that the English had begun to settle...

The Split of Western Christendom By the beginning of the sixteenth century, opposition to the...

The Earth No Longer the Centre of the Universe Near the high altar in the University Church of St...

The Wealth of the New World Enriches the Old Columbus’s feat, in 1492, of joining two worlds,...

Vasco da Gama Transforms the Commerce of the World The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and...

Europeans Enter Another Hemisphere In the vocabulary of the maritime explorers of the fifteenth...

A Direct Cause of the Rebirth of Learning in Europe The Renaissance was the whole process whereby...

Learning, Previously the Prerogative of the Few, Sweeps the World Without readily available books,...