PolledHistory

 Hello! After a week poll, Medieval Europe has won as the historical topic, with half of the votes. Let us begin! First of all, I want to emphasize that Medieval Europe is not a history of a specific country, but rather an entire continent over an interval of a thousand years. One of the other entries in our poll, the Byzantine Empire, is a part of Medieval Europe, so it will be mentioned and talked about, but not as much compared to how much I would cover it if it won. Medieval History, specifically in history, begins in 476 AD. The once invincible Roman Empire has been divided (395 AD) into two halves: The Western Roman Empire, and Eastern (Byzantine) Empire. In 410 AD, Rome was attacked for the first time in centuries. In 476 AD, the barbarians finally destroyed the Western Roman Empire with the Battle of Ravenna, and the Western Roman Empire, for the most part, fell. The East remained powerful. With the fall of the Western Roman Empire, general living conditions and technologie...

 Hello! In the first usual episode of PolledHistory, after a week of votes, Persia won as the winning subject for this week. Let's begin! Before we begin, I want to emphasize that there are multiple states relating to Persia (modern day Iran), but the one I specifically referred to in the poll, as the theme was Antiquity (which means Ancient Era), I am referring to the Persia usually referred to when saying it, the Achaenemid Empire. The history of Persia begins in around 550 BC, with a man called Cyrus (specifically Cyrus II), who defeated his grandfather, who was the ruler of another empire, the Median Empire. He then conquered Media, and conquered basically the entire known world at the time, between Turkey and Pakistan. Cyrus is referred to in the Bible, as he sent back the Jews from the exile.  After Cyrus died in a battle, the next king, Cambyses II, who was Cyrus' son, became the ruler of Persia. He died early, but he conquered Egypt. Darius, who was not his son, but Da...

PolledHistory - Theme Hello! On July 15 marks the start of the third blog, PolledHistory, a history-related blog which, like ScienceForDummies, will have weekly polls. Before we do any topic, we must investigate - What is History? It might seem like a somewhat-simple question, but let's evaluate first: History simply means, "The study of the past and its events.". Really, though, it is only about human events, or events that affected humans. There are many meanings of history, but its most used one, referring to the field of study means that. Many people find patterns across history - events that repeat throughout the course of time. Some say, "History repeats itself.". I think that it "rhymes" is better to describe it than "repeats", since history does not completely repeat - how things happen happens in different ways, whether in a different process, different amount of time, etc. Most people know history through text, oral tradition, archa...