FASCIST DICTATOR WERE THERE FASCISTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES? WHO WERE THE NAZIS? BIOGRAPHY: ADOLF HITLER 1889–1945 SPANISH CIVIL WARFIND OUT MOREIn 1922 a political movement called fascism grew up in…
GOLD MASK WHO RULED THE INCA EMPIRE? HOW DID INCA SOCIETY FUNCTION? WHO WAS DESCENDED FROM THE SUN AND MOON? FIND OUT MOREThe Inca people lived in the Andes mountains of Peru. Between the 12th…
WHO RULED MAYAN KINGDOMS? WHY DID THE MAYA BUILD PYRAMIDS? MAYAN GLYPHSFIND OUT MOREThe Maya lived in Central America and were powerful from around AD 250 to 900. Farmers and traders, they built…
HOW WERE THE SUMERIAN CITIES RULED? HOW WERE THE ZIGGURATS BUILT? FIND OUT MOREMesopotamia is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Farmers used the river water to irrigate fields and…
WHAT WAS THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS? WERE KINGS EVER ELECTED? DYNASTIESFIND OUT MOREMonarchy means rule by a single person, such as a king or a queen. Normally, rule passes from one generation to…
WHAT WAS SPECIAL ABOUT MONGOL ARMIES? WHO WANTED TO RULE THE WORLD? BIOGRAPHY: GENGHIS KHAN r. 1206–1227 FIND OUT MOREThe Mongols were nomadic tribes from the steppes, or grasslands, of central…
WHY WAS POLAND IN REVOLT? WHEN DID GERMANY COME INTO BEING? WHO WERE THE REDSHIRTS? BIOGRAPHY: OTTO VON BISMARCK 1815–1898 FIND OUT MORENationalism means the wish of a people to govern themselves…
WHAT HAPPENED IN 1066? WHY WAS NORMAN SICILY SO REMARKABLE? FIND OUT MOREThe Normans were descended from Viking warriors who settled in Normandy, northwest France, in AD 912. They conquered large…
WHERE WERE POLYNESIANS FROM? WHY DID PEOPLE SET SAIL FOR POLYNESIA? HOW DID THE SETTLERS NAVIGATE? MAORISFIND OUT MOREPolynesia is a group of scattered islands in the vast Pacific Ocean. Around…
WHO LED THE REFORMATION? WHAT WERE THE RESULTS OF THE REFORMATION? FIND OUT MOREThe Reformation was a Christian movement of the 1500s. Its followers criticized the Catholic Church for corruption…
