Old World Archives - Your World History

How Did the Vikings Die Out?

The Icelandic sagas tell of the mighty deeds of courageous Northmen who set out on the high seas to conquer[…]

Despite the fact that Viking history is usually depicted as being fiercely male-centric, movies and television shows have often popularized[…]

The holy wars known as the Crusades were a series of military campaigns authorized and organized by the church of[…]

For the Aztec people of Mesoamerica, life was ruled by the sun, who they worshiped as the god of their[…]

Ancient American history is full of many fascinating peoples of whom much is unknown. The two great empires of the[…]

What Did Anglo-Saxons Eat? The Saxon diet included many of the foods familiar to us today. They grew and ate[…]

The Byzantines, the first world empire to identify itself as Christian, came into existence in 330 AD, when Emperor Constantine[…]