In the Middle Ages, punitive punishment was viewed as the right method of extracting confessions, performing executions, and punishing offenders. Other ways were known to be crueler than others – the ten we’re going to look into in this post were the most brutal and barbaric.
The great depression was one of the worst economic downturns in US history, but when did it happen? What caused this great recession to happen? These are questions that many people have asked.
This was a civil war in the USA between the Union or ‘The North’ and the Confederacy or ‘The South’. At the time 1860, there were 32 million Americans four million of them were black slaves mostly in the South.
The Cold War was a major political conflict between countries practising either capitalism and communism. The period was from 1946 to approximately 1989-1990. So the conflict started just after the 2nd world war.