Epic World History

Ashikaga Shogunate This shogunate saw the Ashikaga family dominate Japanese society, ruling for much of the period from their headquart...

Anti-Jewish Pogroms Jewry suffered a reversal of fate during the High Middle Ages that can only be compared to the destruction of Jerus...

Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas was born at Roccasecca, Italy, to Count Landulf and Countess Theodora. From early on, Thomas was dilig...

Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor of Aquitaine was born in 1122 to William X, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou, and Aenor, daughter of t...

Roger Bacon Known as doctor mirabilis (“wonderful teacher”), Roger Bacon was born to wealthy parents at Ilchester, Somersetshire, Englan...

Baghdad The Abbasid dynasty founded the city of Baghdad as a new capital in 762, shortly after the overthrow of the Umayyad dynasty . Th...