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League of Nations Cartoon
A cartoon highlighting the principal weakness of the League of Nations, that the United States, despite being instrumental in founding it in 1919, did not become a member. (From Punch magazine, December, 1919)
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Delian League
A map illustrating the members of the Delian League, led by Athens c. 431 BCE.
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Achaean League c. 200 BCE
The Achaean League was a Hellenistic period confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese between 280 BCE and 146 BCE.
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General Assembly, League of Nations
A 1923 photograph of the Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Emperor Haile Selassie's Speech in the League of Nations
Emperor Haile Selassie's (1892-1975) League of Nations speech in 1936 against the Fascist Italian invasion.
Bettmann Archive.
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Arms of the Hanseatic League
Arms of the Hanseatic League, 1670 CE, Museum of London
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Achaean League c. 150 BCE
The Achaean League was a Hellenistic period confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese between 280 BCE and 146 BCE.
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De-Ka-Nah-Wi-Da and Hiawatha
De-Ka-Nah-Wi-Da and Hiawatha is the written account of the oral history of the origins of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, detailing how the great peacemaker Dekanawida (De-Ka-Nah-Wi-Da) met Chief Hiawatha and...
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Battle of the Eurymedon, c. 466 BCE
The Battle of the Eurymedon (c. 466 BCE, also given as the Battle of the Eurymedon River) was a military engagement between the Greeks of the Delian League and the forces of the Achaemenid Empire toward the end...
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The Pentecontaetia
The Pentecontaetia (Pentekontætia, πεντηκονταετία) or “the account of the fifty years” is a term first used by Thucydides to describe, in Book 1, Sections 89 to 117 (1.89-117) of his History of the Peloponnesian War, the period...