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410
The fall of the Roman Empire
The invading army reached the outskirts of Rome, which had been left totally undefended. In 410 C.E., the Visigoths, led by Alaric, breached the walls of Rome and sacked the capital of the Roman Empire. The Visigoths looted, burned, and pillaged their way through the city, leaving a wake of destruction wherever they went. The plundering continued for three days. For the first time in nearly a millennium, the city of Rome was in the hands of someone other than the Romans. This was the first time -
Period: 410 to
The Ancient to the Modern World
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Feb 12, 1096
First Crusade
The First Crusade had a very difficult journey getting to the Middle East. They could not use the Mediterranean Sea as the Crusaders did not control the ports on the coast of the Middle East. Therefore, they had to cross land. They travelled from France through Italy, then Eastern Europe and then through what is now Turkey. They covered hundreds of miles -
Jul 7, 1099
Siege of Jerusalem
The Crusaders had to scale the wals of Jerusalem, but they needed ladders and siege towers. The Muslims burned the surrounding area of trees. The crusaders sent out foraging parties to scavenge for wood. According to the crusaders, they found 400 piece of readily prepared timber. It was enough to build two 50 ft siege towers 14, the crusaders launched a two-pronged assault on the walls. One tower was to the south, the other to the northwest. -
Feb 12, 1192
Sengoku-Jidai: Period of Country of War
In 1185, the Minamoto family took over the control over Japan after defeating the Tiara clan in the Gempei war. Minamoto Yoritomo was appointed shogun in the year 1192 and established a new government, the Kamakura Bakufu. The new feudal government was organized in a simpler way than the one in Kyoto and worked much more efficient under Japanese conditions.
After Yoritomo's death in 1199, quarrels for supremacy started between the Bakufu of Kamakura and the Imperial court in Kyoto. Those quarre -
The Great Plague of London
The Great Plague of London in 1665 was the last in a long
Series of plague epidemics that first began in London in June 1499. The Great Plague killed between 75,000 and 100,000 of London’s rapidly expanding population of about 460,000.
First suspected in late 1664, London’s plague began to spread in earnest eastwards in April 1665 from the destitute suburb of St. Giles through rat-infested alleys to the crowded and squalid parishes of Whitechapel and Stepney on its way to the walled City of Lon