During the Cold War, Egypt seized control of the Suez Canal causing Britain, France, and Israel to strike Egypt in 1956, known as the Suez Canal Crisis. Soviet’s threatened a nuclear response, while the US used economic sanctions to resolve the conflict.

The civilization of Sparta in ancient Greece was notorious for training their youth to become warriors, while enslaving prisoners to work for their benefit, at the same time giving women equal rights with free men.

Scholars argue over the origins of the legend of werewolves, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Nordic folklore, the belief in lycanthropy, or humans that shape-shift into a wolf, has been popular throughout history.

The house of Medici was a powerhouse family of generational wealth in Europe, including bankers, popes, queens, and kings.

Blaming foreign oppressors in the west as the cause of famine, floods and poverty, the Boxer Rebellion was a secret movement to attack foreigners and Christian converts during China’s Qing Dynasty in 1899.

Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the propensity for strong genes to propagate through evolution and weak genes to die, has been applied unnaturally to society in the form of the eugenics movement and gene-editing technologies.

After eight years of Revolutionary War, the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 recognizing the United States as an independent nation. John Adams, Ben Franklin, and John Jay were key American signatories of the treaty.