History

Evidence-based accounts of past events and their contexts.

Articles (6)

• The Black Death: How the Plague Changed Medieval Europe
  The Black Death killed an estimated third to half of Europe between 1347 and 1351. Learn its cause, how it spread, and how it reshaped society and medicine.
• The Silk Road
  The overland trade network linking China, Central Asia, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 15th century CE.
• The Optical Telegraph: Semaphore Networks Before Electricity
  How 18th-century semaphore towers relayed coded messages hundreds of kilometers in minutes — the first practical telecommunications network, and its brief dominance.
• The Industrial Revolution
  The period from the late 18th century when mechanized production, steam power, and factories transformed economies and societies.
• The Scientific Revolution
  The 16th–17th century transformation of natural philosophy into empirical, mathematical science, associated with Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton.
• The Printing Press
  The movable-type printing press developed in fifteenth-century Europe, and its effects on the spread of knowledge, literacy, and communication.

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