Chemical and biological weapons were outlawed by the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which was to set the ground rules for World War II. The Geneva Protocol was a very good idea, but the actual treaty was completely toothless. […]
Is it possible to understand the whole of the past, from the beginnings of everything to the present day? Is it even possible to tell such a story? If so, what would the story look like? Welcome to the study of Big History. […]
The 20th century was an age of revolution. Revolutions in the 20th century didn’t happen everywhere, but they did occur in parts of Eastern Europe, in significant parts of Asia, in significant parts of Latin America, and in a few parts of the Middle East. […]
Developed long before the war itself, the German Schlieffen Plan was part of an extensive military preparation. Unfortunatley, it was doomed to fail. […]
By Bob Brier, Ph.D., Long Island University Khufu—also known by the Greek name of Cheops—built the Great Pyramid at Giza. Until the Eiffel Tower was […]
One of the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s greatest achievements were the obelisks that she had quarried and erected at Karnak Temple. Let’s talk about just what a great achievement it was—how difficult it was to quarry an obelisk and to erect it. In some ways erecting an obelisk was harder than building a pyramid. […]
Examine the vast difference between the ideology of Chairman Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” and the reality of it’s aftermath. […]
On June 28, 1914, the heir to the Habsburg throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife were both assassinated in the capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo. Six weeks later, Europe found itself on the brink of the 20th century’s first world war. […]
In 1858 India formally became a direct possession of the British Crown, and become known as the “Jewel in the Crown.” To justify their rule, the British argued that they were going to bring superior European culture and political institutions into a backward continent. It was their of own doing, however, that Britain lost control over the nation. […]
Konstantin Pobedonostsev, was probably the most powerful and influential intellectual in Russia during the final decades of tsarist rule. From 1880 to 1905, he served as Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod, and in this position he was the layman in charge of administering the entire Russian Orthodox Church. […]
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