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The Italian Wars 1494-1559

The Italian Wars (1494-1559) were a series of conflicts fought primarily in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into other regions. The main

The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne. They were fought between supporters of the

The Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages.

The Roman-Greek wars beginning in 214 BC, were a series of conflicts between the Roman Republic and Greek kingdoms and city-states.This is a one-off

Before the end of the seventeenth century the functions of the Canadian Jesuit had become as much political as religious.Our special project

The Pyrrhic War (280-275 BC) was the first time that Rome confronted the professional mercenary armies of the Hellenistic states of the eastern

Pitifully small Greece had barely survived repeated invasions by the mighty Persian Empire a century before (the 400’s BC). When Alexander, having

Between 431 to 404 BC, this war was fought between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta. Each stood at the head of

For the last hundred years or so, it seemed that one important ingredient for running an economically successful country was a western-style