Планы насильственного отъёма испанских колоний регулярно рождались в головах государственных мужей, заседавших в английском правительстве. Однажды в 1804 году премьер-министр Англии Уильям Питт-младший,...

How does a civilization that thrived for the better part of six centuries just disappear? That's a mystery that archaeologists working in southern Mexico and northern Central America have been trying to solve for decades. Around A.D. 900, the flourishing Mayan civilization collapsed, but the reasons for this downfall are unclear. Scientific studies suggest that drought may have played a key role in the fall of the Maya. As the Maya cleared forests to make way for bigger...