History

Some 5000 people in the first 72 hours were irradiated with doses ranging from 460 to nearly 1000 mSv.

Gunpowder was invented in China as early as the 9th century and came to Europe several hundred years later.

Troy is best known for the war that took place there, which is described in the ancient Greek epic poem The Iliad, written by Homer.

Archaeological work carried out on Hisarlik hill has led to the discovery of the remains of as many as nine cities.

Contrary to popular belief, witch hunting was not popular in the Middle Ages.

Jamestown was the capital city of the Virginia Colony until 1699.

John Rolfe’s tobacco plantation is the reason the colony survived.

It was founded by Sundiata Keita, who later became King Mansa, which in the Mande language means king of kings.

Another hypothesis put forward by a team of American geologists is that 140 km north of Mohenjo-daro was the epicenter of a powerful earthquake that changed the Indus Valley.

In order to take advantage of the fertile lands they inhabited, the Sumer invented the plow.