Read this article to learn about the six causes of the failure of the Ionian Revolt. 1. The Ionian revolt failed because the European and the Asiatic Greeks did not combine. Sparta, the strongest military power did not come forward with the help it could render. Athens and Eretria, specially the former came to join the rebels out of a [...]
On Sunday of 10th May 1857, on a tarried evening, the soldiers in Meerut rise in mutiny against their British officers. The cry "Delhi Chalo" went up like wild fire everywhere. This historic event was the first large scale uprising in its kind against British rule in India. Innocent men, women and children were done to death. This rebellion marked [...]
In the 12th year of his reign and the 8th year of his coronation, in 261 B.C., Asoka invaded Kalinga. From the view point of Mauryan imperialism, the conquest of Kalinga was considered necessary for various reasons. From the side of Kalinga, her freedom-loving people were powerful enough to resist the invasion with all their might. As a result, the [...]