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Abstract:
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In this issue of Historia National Geographic, readers are transported to different parts of the world and different eras, beginning with Barbarossa, the fearsome pirate of Algiers. The issue then moves to China, where the Manchus conquer and unite the country under the Qing dynasty. Readers get a glimpse into medieval crime and punishment, and then delve into the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, where pharaohs' tombs were constructed to preserve their bodies and treasures for the afterlife. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers of Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, are also explored. The issue then takes readers to the island of Crete, where the Minoan civilization flourished, and then to ancient Rome, where the wars against the Cantabrians were fought. The issue also sheds light on the history of the Knights Templar in the Holy Land, the largest empire in the world, the Russia of the Tsars, and finally, the prehistoric air museum that is Lascaux.
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