In many regions the clan’s land rights became the basis of the landowning system. The subjugated local population became the personal property of the conquering clans, which were breaking up into large family communities. The enslavement of the local population was not the same’everywhere. In ...
1. Greek politics came full circle, now under the authority of semidivine kings assisted by companions, much like the mycenaean wanakes. 2. It is Alexander who divinized the Macedonian royalty, he was told that he is the son of amun in Libya,then Egypt pharaoh adopted him as a son, ...
All this led to the economic, political, and military weakening of Egypt; by the end of the 20th Dynasty, Egyptian-controlled Syria and the southern regions of Cush had been lost. Under Ramses XII (c. 1070 B.C.), the power in Thebes had for all intents and purposes passed into the...
Donald Trump, as president of the United States of America, I have felt compelled to write a number of articles surrounding the subject of the Norse myth of the ‘day of judgement’, Ragnarok (which translates literally as ‘Twilight of the Powers’)…...
For the Carthaginians, the war meant a return to the status quo, as they once again held the western and central regions of Sicily. For the Romans, however, much of Magna Graecia gradually fell under their sphere of influence, bringing them closer to complete domination of the Italian ...
Ancient Egypt - Predynastic, Early Dynastic, Nile Valley: The peoples of predynastic Egypt were the successors of the Paleolithic inhabitants of northeastern Africa, who had spread over much of its area; during wet phases they had left remains in regions
It had become too large, taxes were too high and entire regions rebelled. In 612 B.C., Nineveh itself was razed by a host of Persians, Babylonians and Medes. The great Assyrian empire was over.Viking HistoryVikings’ history is as extensive as the people it studies. The seafaring ...
The FirstCataractatAswān, where the riverbed is turned into rapids by a belt ofgranite, was the country’s only well-defined boundary within a populated area. To the south lay the far less hospitable area ofNubia, in which the river flowed through lowsandstonehills that in most regions left...
(alternately, Mushabi or Mushabaean) is suggested to have originated along the Nile Valley prior to migrating to the Levant, due to similar industries demonstrated among archaeological sites in both regions but with the Nile valley sites predating those found in the Sinai regions of the Levant....
BETWEEN the western edge of the Nile Delta and the most eastern spurs of the Atlas ranges, before they pass over from Tunis into Sicily, North Africa consists of three distinct geographical regions, with distinct historical experiences. The 'Western Desert' from the Egyptian point of view, or ...