The Greeks, Phoenicians/Carthaginians, and Romans planted colonies all along the Mediterranean, The Black Sea, and on the Atlantic coasts of France, Spain, and and England.

But I've never heard of any being founded on the western coast of Africa more than a few miles from the pillars of Hercules. I'm sure there must have been valuable resources there for trade, so why wouldn't classical civilizations take over those lands, as they'd taken other lands from natives in Gaul, North Africa, etc?

I can accept that people where obsessed over some flowers and that they payed the equivalent of millions of dollars to buy just one flower.

My question is, what did they planned to do with it?, I imagine that maybe they hoped that a pretty flower's seeds would become even prettier flowers when planted, which later turned out not to be true because the Tulips were affected by some parasite, but still, if that was the plan I can understand that.

But if it wasn't then I don't understand why would anyone pay to have the world prettiest flower since it's going to die rather soon anyway

Where is there the first evidence of rice farming? How did rice as a crop propogate to all of the other parts in the world where it is a staple food source today?

Title says it all, thanks in advance friends.

Referring to the laws of the naturalization act of 1790 which forbade black and native (nonwhite) citizenship.

Did anyone from the ottoman lands challenge this statute to be considered white? If they weren't when would this have changed?

Further question: would it matter if I am Muslim or Christian?

could earlier humans or their relatives, like neanderthals contract std's? Or did they even have sex with more than one person?

"Let's get down to business, to defeat, the Huns"

I just don't really get why the Huns would affect China, I mean other than trade was the Han Dynasty (I'm assuming this is during the Classical Period) allied with the Roman Empire in any way? Or is this just the movie being wrong? On further thought, were they referring to the Xiongnu peoples who invaded China? I could be very wrong in my thoughts, I'm just learning this stuff now and I had this really stupid question. Thank you!

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Could someone please describe the differences between these three institutions?

I was wondering why rivers were so frequently made colonial and state boundaries in America. Of course they used them to ship goods and provided ocean access for them but why make them a state boundary when a state can just claim a big river for themselves?

China's history seems to remain very detailed throughout it's entire time, even in it's early days and it seems to be lacking any kind of "dark age" of information similar to European history. Why is this, how did China manage to hold onto so much information?

He looks more like a hussar to me, but I could be wrong, or it could be ambiguous. The painting was finished in 1812.

Often when describing either medieval or early-modern Japan (which I realize is European periodisation but I think it makes it more clear to which period I am refering to) it is called 'feudal japan'.

How correct is to refer to Japan during this time as 'feudal'? I'm especially curious because the term 'feudal' has come undee criticism lately in European context as well.

I have a hard time understanding how the Northern states benefited from this compromise. Thank you!

I have five 1622 3 polkers Sigismund III from medieval Poland. What could these purchase in medieval times? My searches only takes me to eBay and collector sites.