Lesson Summary Register to view this lesson Are you a student or a teacher? FAQ What is Italy known for throughout history? Italy is known for several things throughout its long history. These include the expansive Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance, a golden age of art. ...
probablyAsiatic culture of Etruria, came the civilization of ancient Rome; from Rome camethe civilization of Western Europe; from Western Europecame the civilization of North and South America. In the third and followingcen...
“If you like Italy and history, one book that’s a lot of fun is The Shortest History of Italy, by Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome. In 234 pages, it covers the entire history from Aeneas’s mythical arrival and the founding of Rome to the present. It’s really satisfying...
History of Rome Book XLIII Summary Book XLIV Summary Book XLV Summary Index of Names Maps 1. The Mediterranean 2. Illyria and Macedonia 3. Northern Greece 4. Southern Greece and Asia Minor 5. Italy 作者简介 Alfred Cary Schlesinger (1900–1993) was Professor of Ancient History at Oberlin Col...
His composite bulletins, the “Shide Circulars” developed, in the twentieth century, into the world earthquake bulletins of the International Seismological Summary and eventually the International Seismological Centre, which continues to publish the definitive earthquake parameters of world earthquakes on a...
but now chose to remain neutral.Italyhad confirmed theTriple Allianceon December 7, 1912, but could now propound formal arguments fordisregardingit: first, Italy was not obliged to support its allies in a war of aggression; second, the original treaty of 1882 had stated expressly that the alli...
after the abatement of the European witch-hunt fervour, which peaked from the 1580s and ’90s to the 1630s and ’40s. Some three-fourths of those European witch hunts took place in westernGermany, theLow Countries,France, northernItaly, and Switzerland. The number of trials and executions va...
"On December 9th 1940 British unleashed their major offensive against Sidi el Barani, hoping to take the entire Italian and North African coast in their possession. Italy lost Cyrenaica. But the very first days of February 1941 brought a big surprise: the British stopped their offensive in the...
He studied for twenty years in the universities of Italy, and was a great favourite with Pope Innocent VIII, who made him one of his domestic chaplains, and master of the ceremonies in his household. Returning to England in 1477, he dedicated to King Edward IV. his famous work, "The ...
Neuroscience, like most other divisions of natural philosophy, emerged in the Hellenistic world following the first experimental discoveries of the nerves connecting the brain with the body. The first fundamental doctrine on brain function highlighted th