One of the unique things about the Islamic world is that, during its inception, the military forces of various Islamic countries had plenty of success in winning battles and expanding the footprint of the Islamic nations. While most know that the concentration of Muslim power started in the Middle East,...

The first wave of human migrants into the Americas took place about 13,000 B.C.E. over a land bridge between present day Siberia and Alaska. Known as the Bering land bridge among historians today, it is also believed that some of these migrants may have traveled by watercraft, sailing, or drifting...

In general, it is believed that the first group of humans began migrating over to the North American continent using an exposed land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska sometime around 13,000 BCE. Now existing only beneath the ocean surface, this bridge is known among historians as the Bering land bridge...

Religious minority groups living in the Ottoman Empire included Christians and Jews. The prevailing religion at the time was Islam. There is some conjecture as to how these minority groups were treated; some historians believe that Christian and Jews were discriminated against. Moshe Ma’Oz asserts that they were considered to...

For almost 2,000 years, the Jewish people have been a race without a home, frequently persecuted for their faith and allowed to settle in other lands only on the suffrage of whatever rulers allowed them to live there—a privilege that all too often was revoked without warning, a revocation that...