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Teacher and young boys posed for photograph at an unknown American Indian boarding school, c. 1900. Minnesota Historical Society.

Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Penobscot County, Maine, USA. Illustration from What to see in America by Clifton Johnson, 1919.

Indian Girl in White Blanket, painting by Robert Henri, 1917. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Photo by Daderot.

Ajatashatru (c. 493/492 BCE - c. 462/460 BCE) was the second important king of the Haryanka Dynasty, who came to the throne of Magadha by deposing and executing his own father Bimbisara. The Haryanka Dynasty (c. 545/544 BCE - c. 413 BCE...

The Shishunaga Dynasty (also Sishunaga/Shaishunaga Dynasty) ruled the Magadha Kingdom in ancient India from c. 413 BCE to c. 345 BCE (in some sources from 421 BCE). It is said to be the third imperial dynasty of Magadha after the Brihadratha...

Cochin, located on the southwest coast of India, was a Portuguese colony from 1503 to 1663. Known to the Portuguese as Cochim, it was one of several important cities on India’s Malabar Coast and a great trade centre for spices like pepper...

For almost a decade, Alexander the Great and his army swept across Western Asia and into Egypt, defeating King Darius III and the Persians at the battles of River Granicus, Issus and Gaugamela. Next, despite the objections of the loyal army...

Throughout the 15th century, the Portuguese Crown yearned for a piece of the Far Eastern spice trade. For centuries this trade had been dominated by the Venetians who obtained pepper, cloves, nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon from their Middle...

Sir William Johnson saves the life of French General Baron Dieskau after the Battle of Lake George, 1755, oil on canvas painting by Benjamin West, between 1764 and 1768. Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

In the ancient world, some coins had dates on them. giving us precise information as to when people ruled. These coins are inscribed with dates, so they give fixed points in the chronology of ancient states, to which other evidence can be...