World History Encyclopedia

The earliest writing in the world 1 The legend of the origin of cuneiform characters cuneiform characters is a great invention of ancient Sumerians and the earliest known characters in the world. There is still a beautiful legend about the origin of cuneiform characters. The legendary...

In the middle of the 17th century, the bourgeois revolution broke out in Britain. The naspi battle was a famous battle in the process of revolution. The two sides were the parliamentary army led by Cromwell and the army of British King Charles I. Charles I...

Thanksgiving, the most important traditional holiday of the American people, began in 1621. In the autumn of that year, in order to thank God for the harvest, the British immigrants who came to America across the ocean held a carnival for three days and three nights....

One day in May 1596, a Dutch merchant ship came to the sea. On the merchant ship, Captain Barents and his 17 sailors were trying to find a sea passage from the north to Asia, which was another important task of their trip in addition to...

Columbus discovered the new world before, and then Magellan sailed around the world. Magellan is Portuguese and once worked as a junior officer in the Portuguese army. He had risk cells on his body, often fooling around with a group of astrologers, and gradually learned that...

Netherland is a place name, meaning a low-lying country, which is equivalent to today's Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and northeast France. In the early 16th century, it was a territory of Spain, and the governor's office of Spain controlling the Netherlands was located in Brussels. One day...

As early as the 16th century, some Western European countries developed themselves by plundering the wealth of other countries, thus starting their golden age. At that time, Spain was exclusive in the Western Hemisphere. It was a powerful military colonial empire with colonial forces all over...

In the Bible, prophets refer to those who are called by God, communicate with God and convey God's will. Before the 9th century BC, there were people who communicated with God and conveyed God's meaning in various ways between the Euphrates River and the Nile River...

Early Christian architecture is like a Greek temple. Early Christian architecture was first built in heaven, which is the product of human fantasy. Early Christianity inherited the pure spirituality of Judaism and excluded the worship of idols. Therefore, the religious architecture of early Christianity, like Judaism,...

Many people do not know that there were two turning points in the American War of independence, which completely changed the process of history. Both transitions were completed by snipers. The first sniper, Patrick Ferguson, came from a Scottish noble family. After the outbreak of the...