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.

The Weimar Republic was a post-WWI Germany that defaulted on its foreign debts, leading to hyperinflation and ultimately a rise in nationalism and Hitler’s ascension to power.

Pol Pot was a 20th-Century Cambodian dictator who implemented genocidal measures to enforce conformity, ultimately causing an estimated 20% of citizens to perish.

The Acropolis of Athens consists of four hills atop the Attica plateau and has been occupied for thousands of years, destroyed during times of war, and rebuilt during times of Greek prosperity.