Uruk was one of the most important cities (at one time, the most important) in ancient Mesopotamia. #History #Writing #Uruk #Urbanization #Ur #Sumerians #SumerianLanguage #Sumer #SargonOfAkkad #Inanna #Gilgamesh #Eridu #Akkad #Babylonia #Trade #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-43-en/

Ancient Egypt is defined as the civilization that flourished in North Africa between circa 6000 and 30 BCE – from the Predynastic Period in Egypt (circa 6000 to circa 3150 BCE) through the Ptolemaic Dynasty (323-30 BCE) before Egypt became a province of Rome. #History #Tutankhamun #Pharaoh #EgyptianWarfare #EgyptianReligion #EgyptianMedicine #EgyptianGovernment #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianBurial #Egypt #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-1508-en/

Eridu (present-day Abu Shahrein, Iraq) was considered the first city in the world by the ancient Sumerians and is among the most ancient of the ruins from Mesopotamia. #History #Ur #Sumerians #Sumer #Mesopotamia #Inanna #EriduGenesis #Eridu #Enki #City #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-129-en/

For over two centuries, ancient Judea was a restless province of the Roman Empire, marked by rebellions, shifting loyalties, and the tensions between imperial might and local identity. #History #RomanEmpire #Jerusalem #AncientRome #BarKokhbaRevolt #BarryStrauss #GreatJewishRvolt #Judea #RomanProvince #TempleInJerusalem #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2876-en/

Cleopatra VII (69-30 BCE, reign 51-30 BCE) was the last ruler of Egypt before it was annexed as a province of Rome. #History #RomanEgypt #PtolemaicDynasty #MarkAntony #JuliusCaesar #Egypt #CleopatraVII #Caesarion #BattleOfActium #Augustus #Alexandria #AlexanderHelios #Cleopatra #PtolemaicEmpire #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-866-en/

There was actually only one cause for the American Civil War: slavery. #History #MissouriCompromise #CompromiseOf1850 #AmericanCivilWar #Abolitionism #AbrahamLincoln #ManifestDestiny #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2880-en/

The Monroe Doctrine, a significant piece of United States foreign policy, was first articulated by President James Monroe in 1823, and it essentially warns the powers of Europe from meddling in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, claimed by the US as its own sphere of influence. #History #MonroeDoctrine #JohnQuincyAdams #JamesMonroe #ColdWar #Colonialism #RooseveltCorollary #TheodoreRoosevelt #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24004-en/

I would highly recommend Anthony Eastmond's 2017 "Tamta’s World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia. #History #MiddleEast #Mongol #Mongolia #Noblewoman #Tamar #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-540-en/

Striking silhouettes, sumptuous fabrics, bright colours, frills galore, and all manner of ornate accessories define the clothing of the Victorian period, that is, during the reign of Queen Victoria, which spanned seven decades of the 19th century. #History #QueenVictoria #19thCentury #Clothes #Clothing #Fashion #VictorianPeriod #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2879-en/

The American Civil War (1861-1865) was the pivotal event in United States history and the largest armed conflict in the Western world following the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) and prior to the beginning of the First World War (1914). #History #RobertE.Lee #OverlandCampaign #JeffersonDavis #AmericanCivilWar #AbrahamLincoln #Slavery #UlyssesS.Grant #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-21889-en/

The First World War (1914-18) was the first global conflict, the first mechanised conflict, and the first to involve civilians far from the fighting front. #History #Warfare #EasternFront #FirstWorldWar #GreatWar #ItalianFront #WesternFront #WorldWarI #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-316-en/

"The Colony and the Company" by Ghachem is an excellently written historical exploration of an often-overlooked contributing factor of the Haitian Revolution. #History #1791 #ColonialFrance #Haiti #Mississippi #MississippiBubble #SaintDomingue #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-538-en/

Rudi Batzell offers a material account of how racial hierarchies formed in the United States, framing the history of racism in the labor movement as a question not of biases and prejudice but of access to property and land. #History #19thCentury #20thCentury #AmericanCapitalism #Capitalism #Labor #OrganizedLabor #Property #Slavery #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-545-en/

When German generals decided on a strategy of attrition to methodically wear down the French Army in the middle of the First World War (1914-18), the Battle of Verdun was the result, an engagement that spiralled out of control and cost both sides much more than they ever imagined. #History #BattleOfVerdun #FirstWorldWar #FrenchArmy #GermanArmy #Verdun #WesternFront #WorldWarI #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2878-en/

This is a stunning and daring work. #History #Nile #Egypt #Archaeology #20thCentury #Biography #Egyptology #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-544-en/

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a planter, soldier, and politician from Mississippi, who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War (1861-1865). #History #RobertE.Lee #JeffersonDavis #AmericanCivilWar #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-23146-en/

The First World War (1914-18) stimulated a great wave of literary output, not least in the field of poetry. #History #FirstWorldWar #Poem #Poetry #RobertGraves #RupertBrooke #SiegfriedSassoon #WarLiterature #WarPoetry #WilfredOwen #WorldWarI #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2874-en/

This concise biography by Andreas W. Daum offers an accessible and well-structured introduction to Alexander von Humboldt, situating his life within the political, scientific, and cultural transformations of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. #History #TheEnlightenment #Biography #Geography #Germany #Humboldt #Naturalist #Polymath #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-546-en/

The Texas Revolution (1835-1836) is one of the most important events in American history as it established the Texas Republic, leading to the annexation of Texas as the 28th state in 1846, which ignited the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). #History #TexasRevolution #StephenF.Austin #SiegeOfTheAlamo #JuanSeguin #JamesBowie #DavidCrockett #BattleOfTheAlamo #Alamo #Texas #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-314-en/

The Siege of Petersburg (June 1864 to April 1865), or the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, was among the last military operations of the American Civil War (1861-1865). #History #RobertE.Lee #AmericanCivilWar #ArmyOfThePotomac #SiegeOfPetersburg #UlyssesS.Grant #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2865-en/