Women empowerment in Sparta:
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia, a region located in Ancient Greece. However, one of the most important aspects of its success is that during a time when the world began to curtail women, Sparta held women in high positions and made sure that they held property, and contributed to the Spartan economy.

Alexander the Great is one of the greatest military commanders in world history. In 12 years, from a small kingdom in Macedonia, he built an empire extending from Greece to northwestern India. But after achieving so much, his most excellent military strategy is something seen commonly and used by many empires throughout history.

How to make life from grass:
While Genghis Khan was on his conquest of the known world, he discovered that in many areas, the terrain made it very difficult to gather food and drink. Initially, this was a minor issue as the army of Genghis had packed enough to last them. But over time resources started to deplete.

Genghis Khan is believed by most to be the most brilliant leader in all of history. In the words of British historian John Man - Genghis needed magic social skills, persuasiveness, and a high yet flexible sense of morality to sculpt himself as history's most successful conqueror. Using just this and his vision for a world unified under his name, Genghis was able to in just 40 years from an outcast build the largest land empire. Four times the size of that of Alexander the great's and twice as big as that of Rome.

At the age of 32, Alexander the Great had conquered the entire known world at the time amounting to 2 million square miles. However, before he could conquer more, after falling ill he mysteriously died. Till today this has been history's greatest mystery. Since then, historians have debated the causes of his death. Rumours of causes of his death include malaria, typhus, alcohol poisoning, and murder. However, in a new theory, it is believed that Alexander died due to a neurological disorder known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS).

How a mispronounced word re-named a country:
Marco Polo was an Italian explorer known for helping the Mongol emperor of China, Kublai Khan on expanding his realm. He became the most important explorer in the court of Kublai Khan. Today, he is credited for being one of the most influential explorers of all time.

The word Algebra's history dates way back 825 AD to the Islamic golden age. The Islamic golden age was an intellectual primetime in the Middle East centred in Baghdad. During this time, many great Arabic scholars rose. A library known as the House of Wisdom was established to translate essential works of literature from diverse languages, including Chinese and Sanskrit, into Arabic.

Happy International Tea Day! Tea was cultivated in China as early as around 4000 BC or 1500 years before the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built. But before tea evolved to become the beverage it is today, it was initially eaten as a vegetable or cooked with grain porridge. Tea shifted from being food to a drink around 1500 years ago.

After Christopher Columbus reached the new world, native Americans are normally depicted as helpless victims swept away from society and civilization during the colonization. However, the Americans might have actually been a part of the expanding global economy.

When the Western Roman emperor Constantius died in 306 ce, his son, Constantine, was named the next emperor at York (in present-day Britain). However, in Rome, Maxentius laid claim to the same title. For nearly six years, Constantine avoided a direct confrontation. However, in 312 ce, he gathered an army of 40,000 and marched into Rome.

How Greek Hellenism caused women to be curtailed through history:
In 507 BC in Ancient Greece, a thinker named Cleisthenes started a political ideology known as Democracy. Democracy, meaning the 'rule of the people' in Greek, stated that instead of having tyrants who inherit the title of ruler rule over the people, people who were mature enough to make a decision would vote for a ruler.

In around 800 BC, a conqueror named Piye led campaigns to conquer the southern border of the Egyptian empire. His successful campaigns would later lead to the establishment of a great empire known as the Kushite empire or the kingdom of Kush. The Kushite Empire soon started to prosper. However, the Egyptian empire claimed that the Kushite empire was a part of Egypt since it was so close to Egypt’s southern border. This resulted in multiple battles between Kush and Egypt.

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Hatshepsut was the fifth Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. She is the second-ever female ruler to rule Egypt and lived from 1507-1458 BC.

On this day (14th February) in 1483, the first Mughal emperor Babur was born. 14th February is also marked as an official cultural day in Uzbekistan celebrating the birth anniversary of Babur. This day is known as Babur Day. During Babur Day, multiple events are conducted that are attended by celebrities, high ranking officials and students.

To be admitted into the army of the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan, you had to be able to wage war on a horse without a saddle! This required great skill, balance and coordination. When such great skill was combined with the grip of the Mongol horse saddle, the cavalry of the empire was almost undefeatable.

In 1453 AD, the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II, also known as Mehmed the conqueror, invaded the Byzantine Empire or the Eastern Roman Empire, located in the areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. After the invasion, most of the Byzantine empire citizens decided to stay put in the Ottoman Empire and convert to Islam which the Ottomans followed.

Paintings and depictions of Mughal emperor Babur made on the command of his grandson Akbar were based entirely on depictions from the memory of people who claimed to have seen him. This was because most people who had physically seen Babur died before Akbar. Most of these depictions were made by the late daughter of Babur, Gulbadan Begum. Akbar's artists carefully made these portraits of Babur and then had Gulbadan Begum examine them.

In 46 BC, an alliance between the Egyptian queen Cleopatra (originally from Greece, as her ancestor Ptolemy was the General of Alexander the Great) and Julias Caesar would spark an alliance between the Hellenistic Greek world and Rome. This alliance enabled many trade relationships between Greece and Rome. As these relationships grew, the recipe of Filo Baklava invented in Greece reached Rome. In Rome, the crispy Baklava was made softer and gained a fluffy texture.

The Curious Case of the Mouldy Bread:
In Ancient Egyptian culture, people believed they had an afterlife after death. Hence, Egyptians buried everything needed for one to live in the afterlife alongside the dead body. This included jewellery, clothes and food. But one of the most important things was the medicine chest, as Egyptians believed that the most important thing in the afterlife was good health. The most famous medicine in the chest was mouldy bread!

The Oxford Univerity, founded in 1096, is older than the Aztec empire which was founded in 1428. The University was built during the reign of William II, son of William the conqueror. The Oxford University was founded 120 years before the Magna Carta was signed in 1215 CE.

In 1889, Naples the cook Raffaele Esposito was commissioned to make a Pizza for King Umberto I of Savoy and his wife, Queen Margherita. Among the many Pizzas, the royal couple especially liked a pizza seasoned with tomato, mozzarella cheese and basil, which also represented the 3 colours on the Italian flag.