5.03- The Precursors

Enter Bolívar.  

1n 1806, two invasions of South America tested the waters of independence. Also, Bolívar swears to liberate his country or die trying.  

Learn more about a turbulent period of Portugal's history: the French invasions and the revolution that followed. 

In 238, a revolt in Africa sparked a revolution in Rome that would eventually lead to six different men claiming the title of Augustus. 

In 1857 tensions in Company-controlled India came to a head in what the British called 'The Indian Mutiny', now referred to in India as the First War of Independence. The uprising and bloody reprisals sent shockwaves through the Empire, ended the rule of the East India Company, a ...  Show more