Monthly Archives: August 2011

The earliest known evidence of European contact with the land of the rising sun was initiated by the Portuguese, when one of their ships had been hit on the high seas and landed in a bad condition in 1543 in … Continue reading

Forget the European explorers and their discoveries. Europeans colonized North America in the late 1500s – but until then, the earth was already inhabited, from coast to coast, with some 1,000 tribes of Native Americans. First human inhabitants of America … Continue reading

Western scholars often refer to Western civilization as a Christian. The continuing conflict between the radical Arab world and the West is often portrayed as a clash of cultures, with the assumption that the dominant cultural influence in Western civilization, … Continue reading