He was elected president eight times, turning over power once, from 1880 to 1884, to a trusted ally, General Manuel Gonzailez. This period of relative prosperity is known as the Porfiriate. Diaz remained in power by rigging elections and censoring the press. Possible rivals were destroyed, and popular generals were m...
to have close ties to Britain for commercial reasons, but Britain was perpetually at war with France, which whom the U.S. technically had a perpetual alliance. You know, because they helped us with the American Revolution, they gave us the Statue of Liberty, and Marion Cotillard, etc. And the French revolution made t...
Buddhism remained the major religion for a long time, but experts estimate that the trade between Arab and China might have brought Islam to Southeast Asia. There are many records of mystics, Sufi’s, and scholars who propagated the religion in Southeast Asia. Given that the Sufi brand of Islam has a lot in common w...
What rights do people have, and where do they come from? Who gets to make decisions for others and on what authority? And how can we organize society to meet people's needs? These questions challenged an entire nation during the upheaval of the French Revolution. By the end of the 18th century, Europe had undergone a...
Under Genghis and Batu Khan, they invaded all the way into Western Kiev a Ru’s and established a state called The Golden Horde With the Ru’s princedoms as their Vassals The Mongol Empire quickly reacted into smaller khanate, along for the growth of more powerful states such as Poland, Lithuania, and the grand Duc...
He had a degree from the London School of Economics and worked in commerce and the LSE. I should say LSE is a pretty August institution. He wrote at a popular level that's to say for a general audience and not with the kind of referencing and footnotes that you'd expect to see in an academic kind of tone. Academic cr...
