the Scandinavian ruler of York, who had come to Northumbria from Dublin. After Sihtric’s death in 927, Æthelstan claimed control of Northumbria for himself. He secured important northern allies, such as the powerful Community of St Cuthbert, who added his name at the ...
Sofonisba Anguissola's undeniable talent attracted the attention of Michelangelo and the king of Spain. Today more and more of her works are being identified, securing the legacy of this remarkable woman.
It is said that a Chinese ruler called Shen Nong was the first to discover tea as a drink. More than 4,000 years later, Lu Yu, “the saint of tea”, mentioned Shen Nong in his book Cha Jing. The book describes how tea plants were grown and used to make tea. It also discusses ...
under an ideal ruler: his own Bucolicum carmen leans strongly towards epic in form, style, themes and values, and he goes out of his way to present the course of his own career as following Virgil’s (even though he had, in fact, commenced his never-completed epic, the Africa, several...
After the death of Godfrey of Bouillon, who was made ruler of Jerusalem and named "Advocate of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher", the Kingdom of Jerusalem was established with Baldwin as its monarch in 1100. To the north other European princes set up the Christian states of Edessa, Tripoli...
His reinstitution of conservative policy and wide scale public improvements helped to not only bring Rome out of the ashes of a century of civil war, but established Augustus as the unassailable and unchallenged ruler of the Roman world for nearly half a century. ...
Archaeologists discovered a long-hidden villa that may mark the final resting place of Augustus, buried for centuries under volcanic ash since 79 AD.
Kublai Khan was the grandson ofGenghis Khanand ruler of the greatMongol Empire, which at its height was one of the largest land empires in history and governed approximately one-fourth of the world’s population at the time. Kublai Khan is said to have been very intrigued by these two Euro...
D. How Augustus became the ruler of Rome. 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 B语篇解读本文是一篇记叙文。奥古斯都是罗马帝国的第一位元首,元首政制的创始人,统治罗马长达40年,是世界历史上最为重要的人物之一。本文简要介绍了他的生平。1.A细节理解题关键 As the first Roman emperor, though he never ...
Because in fact, it is the image of a real ruler of Egypt: a GREEK ruler of Egypt during the Ptolemaic period. Greek and Roman artifacts from their respective periods of occupation in Egypt, are routinely used, along with fake and re-worked artifacts of Egyptians and others too by degenera...