History

The greatest battle of the Middle Ages was the Battle of Grunwald. The clash between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order took place on the 15th of July 1410. 

The plague did not spare Africa and Asia Minor.

The culture of Mohenjo-daro was the most extensive of the modern civilizations of antiquity (along with Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China).

Traveling between cities was not safe, especially for merchants.

The Sumer used cuneiform script, which dates back to the period between 3,300 and 3,100 B.C.

It is likely that climate changes in the region were responsible for the development of the plague in Asia.

The first excavations were carried out only in the 1920s by the English archaeologist, John Marshall.

Pocahontas was a nickname given to an Indian girl named Matoaka by her parents in childhood.

Only after the Chernobyl reactor explosion in 1986 did the Soviets begin to reduce the amount of waste poured into Lake Karachay.

One of the churches in ancient Aksum, Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, is said to have the Ark of the Covenant in its possession. However, the shrine is guarded by a single guardian (a monk) and no one is allowed inside, not even the rulers of Ethiopia or the heads of the Ethiopian church.