Florence is an Italian city which became famous because of the Renaissance, a great artistic movement which began in the 1300s and lasted for three hundred years.
By the mid-14th century, the Mali Empire was said to have had a cavalry of more than 10,000 that controlled some 1 million square kilometers of West Africa.
In contrast, Louis XIV and other French monarchs of the 17th century enjoyed the opportunity to rule over the single political territory that was France.
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, " Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless discuss."