As Ukraine regained its nationalistic identity in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin’s Holodomor Genocide, a forced famine, was intended to break their spirit of independence from Russia.

Originating as the Celtic festival of Beltane, the History of May Day has become associated with workers’ rights and labor demonstrations. Although it’s celebrated by 66 nations, the United States is not one of them.

The Iron Age is argued by scholars to have started around 1200 BCE after shortages of copper and tin led to the forging of stronger metals, iron and carbon, into steel.

As the age of exploration ensued, early contacts between European explorers and North American natives were more frequent and often fraught with exploitation, disease and death.

The 1,000-year-long Copper Age, wedged between the Neolithic and Bronze ages, was distinguished by the earliest uses of copper and gold for weapons, tools, jewelry, art and more.

The Byzantine Empire was Constantine I’s extension of the Roman Empire until its overzealous military exhausted resources and economic conditions weakened the political environment, leading to the fall of the Byzantine Empire.

Located 2,300 miles west of South America, Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island on earth and where the Rapa Nui people built 887 statues before mysteriously disappearing.