In “Dark Laboratory,” Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer’s conquest of the ...

While their ancestors may have been forced to hide or abandon their Judaism following the Alhambra Decree of 1492, these Bnei ...

Venice transformed from a modest refuge into a dominant Mediterranean power. Despite various crises and encircling ...

The comedian Louis C.K. has a bit about the word Jew being an unusual word—it can be both the perfectly correct term for a ...

These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...

The expression "blue blood" to describe royalty and nobility originated in medieval Spain and has deep cultural and historical roots.

Before Christopher Columbus's arrival in 1492, the Americas were home to advanced civilizations with sophisticated social ...

Christopher Columbus' voyage across the Atlantic in 1492 kicked off the Age of Discovery and inaugurated ... The empire reached its greatest extent in 1279 when Kublai Khan completed the conquest of ...

Although not as historically rigorous as it should be, 1492: The Conquest of Paradise (1992) is a film full of adventures that tries to explore the wheeling and dealing of the countries that wanted to ...

The course also covers the Spanish background for the Conquest, from the martial and political expulsion of Moors and Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 to the Spanish Inquisition. (formerly SOAN ...