On March 11th, 2011, Japan was hit with a trifecta of tragedy including the Tōhoku earthquake, subsequent Tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdown of Fukushima. The loss of life, property, and GDP made 3.11 one of the worst events in Japanese history.

After the Cold War, the USSR was in a period of economic stagnation and reform towards free market capitalism which led to the loss of their baltic state territories and ultimately the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Inca Empire began in the 12th Century and expanded through military conquest and diplomacy to span 2,500 miles from modern-day Ecuador to Chile. The Incan empire was conquered by Spanish explorers seeking rumored gold and riches.

The Middle Ages or Medieval Period occurred between the fall of Rome in 476 AD and Europe’s Renaissance period beginning around the 14th Century. It was marked by religious fervor and crusades, as well as agricultural advances and population growth.

With the outbreak of World War One as a distraction, the Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire took horrific efforts to force the Christian Armenian minority from their homeland, seeking an ethnically pure Islamic Turkey and resulting in the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

The existence of Satan—or the Devil—has been deeply embedded in religion, making an appearance in the Old Testament’s Book of Genesis in the form of a serpent whose temptation of Eve and later Adam, led to their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

The Mayans were a dominant civilization in Mesoamerica from 1800 BCE until they mysteriously vanished around 900 AD, leaving behind archeological ruins and societal impact that still reverberates today.