It was the hub of the Roman Province of Africa, one of the empire’s principal food baskets. Early Christianity also developed a stronghold in Carthage. Carthage is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It is still a well-liked residential and tourism destination. Ancient Carthage ...
Ancient Egyptianswere familiar with a variety of indigenous cats, big and small. In North Africa and the Near East, various species of lions roamed, while to the south of Egypt, leopards and cheetahs were found. The African wild cat could be found living in the deserts and marshes. The se...
Their salaries were increased, and donativa were distributed more frequently; thenceforth, soldiers were fed at the expense of the provincials. Veterans received lands, mostly in Syria and Africa. The right of legitimate marriage, previously refused by Augustus, was granted to almost all of the ...
The word appears for the first time in Homer’s first work, The Iliad, which is considered the start of Greek literature and is dated around the 12th century BC. Homer puts in Nestor’s mouth the critique for those who love “war among his own people” (pólemos epidémios, Iliad IX....
Quinoa grain is mainly cultivated in the South American Andes region; however, over the past decades, it has been introduced in North America, Europe, Africa and Australia. Quinoa production has continuously expanded over the last few decades, and by 2013, the international year of quinoa, ...
What are Hemingway’s major works海明威的主要作品 His early works: The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), Green Hills of Africa (1935) His later works: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), The Old Man and the Sea, a powerful novelette about an aged Cuba...
Three legions, two in Egypt and one in Africa (a senatorial province), policed the southern shore of the Mediterranean. In the west, consolidation was extended to the Atlantic. Gaul, Julius Caesar’s conquest, was organized as four provinces: senatorial Narbonensis and the imperial three Gau...
the large Italian landowners exported wine andolive oiltoCisalpine Gauland more distant locations. Dressel I amphoras, the three-foot pottery jars carrying these products, have been found in substantial quantities in Africa andGaul.Yetthe magnitude of the economic development should not be exaggerated...
In the East the official status of Greek and the favour it enjoyed from such emperors as Hadrian gave new life to Greek literature. It had something in common with its Latin counterpart in that it looked to the past but was chiefly written by authors who were not native to the birthplace...
they gave rise to a movement known as Olympism. In the Olympic Charter written by Coubertin, Olympism was called “a philosophy of life exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind”. The combat sports disciplines have had their place there since the begin...