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When armies subdue a population, they often exact some tax or tribute from the conquered people. This pattern holds throughout history, from...

From around 700 A.D. to around 1000 A.D., the empire of Ghana was a powerful political and economic force in Africa. Trading in gold and sal...

In the year 910 A.D., a monastery was founded in the town of Cluny in France. This monastery would come to be associated with a reform movem...

While there are a few things worse than taxation - famines, plagues, and wars - it is still true that taxes are one of the worst things whic...

The religion of Islam appeared around 630 A.D., and a century later, its armies had occupied much of North Africa, Spain, Arabia, and other ...

Between roughly 400 B.C. and 550 A.D., a series of major empires established themselves in India and China. Their tax policies partially det...

Across Europe, during WWII, brave and creative people invented a variety of ways to hide Jews from the Nazis, or to smuggle them to safe reg...