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Man preparing the soil to plant, photograph by Emmanuel Eslava, Mexico, 23 September 2015. A man prepares the land of a chinampa for sowing. The chinampa raised farming technique can be identified by the posts that separate the arable land...

The Peace of Westphalia (1648), concluded through treaties signed at Osnabrück and Münster (May-October 1648), marked the end of two major conflicts: the Thirty Years’ War and the Eighty Years’ War. What began as a religious and dynastic...

A satellite photograph of the site of Tell Hariri, Syria. Tell Hariri is the site of the ancient city of Mari, which, at various times from c. 3000 BCE - c. 1760 BCE, controlled large portions of Northern Mesopotamia. The photograph has been...

Themis statue holding the Scales of Justice and a sword in front of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Building (Old Supreme Court) with the Bank of China tower behind.

Stage, Cerulean Tower Noh Theater, Tokyo, Japan.

The First French Empire, established under Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor 1804–1814; briefly 1815), represented the high point of French power in Europe following the French Revolution. Through sustained military campaigns and political restructuring...

Batu Khan (l. 1205-1255 CE) was a grandson of Genghis Khan and the founder of the Golden Horde. Batu was a skilled Mongol military commander and won battles from China to Persia, although his most famous exploits involve the grand Mongol...

This map illustrates the major religious divisions across Europe during the 16th century, a period marked by the sweeping changes of the Reformation. As Protestant movements challenged the authority of the Catholic Church, the religious landscape...

This map illustrates the geopolitical landscape of Europe in mid-November 1918, immediately after the signing of the Armistice of Compiègne (11 November 1918), which ended the First World War (1914–1918). The Great War, fought on an unprecedented...

A map illustrating the growing instability in Europe in the lead-up to World War II, capturing the aggressive territorial expansion of Nazi Germany and the failure of appeasement. Between 1935 and 1939, a series of bold geopolitical moves...