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The current U.S. economy does share some similarities to Rome’s situation prior to the empire’s fall. Mitchell says the major economic problem Rome faced was its precious metal-based currency.
Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]
Confronting America: The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy (2012) Cosco, Joseph P. Imagining Italians: The Clash of Romance and Race in American Perceptions, 1880-1910 (SUNY Press, 2012) De Conde, Alexander. Half bitter, half sweet (Scribner's 1971), a major scholarly history. online
Italy and the countries of Latin America share a common culture as part of the Romance-speaking and Roman Catholic world. Italians have been in Central and South America since the Age of Discovery as explorers, navigators, missionaries, artists and merchants; from the 19th century, the Italian diaspora brought a multitude of Italians to the ...
When it comes to superlative Roman buildings, Rome’s own amphitheater is by far the most famous. With a maximum seating capacity of 80,000, it’s the largest ancient amphitheater ever built.
The fall of Rome in 476 is a historical turning point that was invented nearly 50 years later as a pretext for a devastating war. In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the ...
All three official scripts of the modern European Union—Latin, Greek and Cyrillic—descend from writing systems used in the Roman Empire. Today, the Latin script, the Latin alphabet spread by the Roman Empire to most of Europe, and derived from the Phoenician alphabet through an ancient form of the Greek alphabet adopted and modified by ...
Twisting through the American city of Boston, the Freedom Trail isn’t long, but links so many must-see locations where modern America began that you’ll need more than a day to do it justice.