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Pax Romana is Latin for the term “the Roman peace” or “peace of the Romans.” It is defined as the period of time between 27 B.C.E.-180 C.E. in which the Roman Empire experienced an extended period of Roman peace and stability. This period lasted almost two centuries. The Roman Empire experienced intense measures of advancement, progress and growth during the Pax Romana.
Roman history portrays this period as a time of great peace which is generally considered to have begun in 27 B.C.E. During that year, Augustus Caesar declared an end to the great Roman civil wars of the first century...
Rudolf Hess, born Walter Rudolf Hess was famous as the man who was third in command to Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. Hess was the son of a German merchant, born in Alexandria, Egypt. In the 1920s and 1930s Rudolf Hess became a close confidant of Hitler, Deputy Führer of the Third Reich and one of Hitler’s principal lieutenants. In the immediate aftermath of the first World War, defeated Germany was a nation in disarray. Harsh and humiliating peace terms were imposed by the victorious Allies. The German economy was in ruins. Rudolf Hess became increasingly involved in the mayhem...
On the evening of April 24, 1915 in the city of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, hundreds of Armenian community leaders were rounded up and later executed by the Turkish government. The ruthless killing of these men was an early indication of the extensive massacre of the Armenian people. This was the first genocide or organized mass murder of an ethnic group in the 20th century. The causes of the Armenian genocide can be traced in part to ethnic and religious tensions that had arisen from the collapse of the once prevailing Ottoman Empire, which had been growing...
The 1936 Summer Olympics, were held in Berlin, Germany. Berlin was chosen as the Olympic city over Barcelona by the International Olympic Committee in 1931. This was beneficial for Germany’s reputation especially after their defeat in the first World War. Hitler and his Nazi government believed holding the Olympics in Berlin was the perfect opportunity to promote their Nazi ideology. Berlin had become the focal point of world interest in 1936 when the summer Olympics were held in Hitler’s Germany.
In 1933, Hitler established an “Aryans only” policy in all of Germany’s athletic institutions. This meant that Jews and Romani...
