Like many strategic territories Crimea bounced between major powers over the centuries and even within the Soviet Union after being acquired by the Russian Empire. But why Khrishchev ceded is to Ukraine is still debated.
When the Roman's withdrew from the region of Great Britian that would become England they left a power vacuum that Germanic and Viking invaders were happy to fill. The Anglo Saxons eventually won out after the near total conquest by the Vikings.
By the third century B.C. the tribal culture know as the Celtic people occupied most of Europe. It was not a harmonious culture which made the various tribes strong militarily but being ununifed they could not resist the organized invasion by the Roman's in the first century A.D.
A concise history of Pennsylvania beginning with the geological past that lead to its major industries explaining where Pennsylvania fits in American history.
