aDryhten. Agasicles has set off on a journey, telling the merchants that you claim the throne because you know how to balance your accounts. That's nonsense. Nobles and kings fight and rule. If they had to haggle over wages and overruns with every passing vagabond who ever did a scrap...
Turkey). He wrote the famousHistoriai(The Histories) that provided a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, which lasted from 499 to 449 BCE. In his book, Herodotus records the lives of Croesus, the Persian Kings Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and several major battles, including Marathon...
I choose to be thankful even as calls go unanswered and unreturned, I remind myself that every destiny is determined by He who creates and so, just like I have been encouraged in the last 2 days, I will yet keep my head up and fight because I know the victory is already mine. Plun...
(1) interested是指“对…产生兴趣的,对…感兴趣的”,一般用人做主语,后常用介词in. He was interested in biology before.他以前对生物感兴趣。 I’m not interested in art.我对艺术不感兴趣。 (2)interesting的意思是“有趣的”,指能够给人带来兴趣的某人或某事物。 He is an interesting old man.他是...
In 509 B.C Rome became a republic, from there the Romans were expanding more and more every year. Over a 500 hundred year time period the Romans grew from a big city to a vast empire of many countries with a tremendous army. Rome changed over time because of when Rome change their go...
Fantasy gets a bad rap for idealizing feudalism, a time where hereditary kings ruled because supposedly God said they should. In Tolkien’s case, this criticism is completely merited. It’s not simply that most of Middle-earth isruled by kings;*it’s the level of emphasis he places on ...
These are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (their lands Joshua gave as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions ...
In response to being subjected to the wage labour, workers rebelled and tried to organise themselves to fight the powers that be and to replace the system with a co-operative one. As the printer’s union argued, its members "regard such an organisation [a union] not only as an agent ...
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings-battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown (推翻) or killed-took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news was passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of im...
Second, Crusader Kings 2, now with expansions. The people who say that Crusader Kings 2 isn’t a complete game without all the expansions or that you need all of the expansions to have the intended experience are very, very wrong. It’s perfectly possible to to get dozens of hours of ...