How many workers died building the Sydney Opera House? How many people built the Statue of Liberty? What empire built the Taj Mahal? How big is the White House? How big is Sydney Opera House? What building served as inspiration for the Taj Mahal?
The old trade routes of the silk road give travellers endless options to explore central Asia, from lake-scattered mountain plateaus to ornate mausoleum complexes and lively cities packed with soviet architecture.
Given the significance of these men, it's reasonable to wonder: who was the world's very first king? The answer, it seems, may be lost to the dust of history, simply because written records of the first king may not have survived time. It is, then, "possibly, an unanswerable question...
The way that you describe debt and the way that Western society thinks about debt with respect to the Bronze Age, the Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, in the aftermath of the agricultural revolution, and the way that Greco-Roman society and Christianity dealt with those ideas was, well, it was...
In what ways were the Byzantine and Islamic civilizations similar and different to the civilizations developing in Western Europe? How did Roman art influence Byzantine art? What was the Byzantine Empire? How does the Roman Empire affect us today? How big was the Byzantine Empire? How did the...
The arrival opened up a whole other hemisphere to European exploration and eventually settlement. In this lesson, we are going to look specifically at the role of international commerce during the Age of Exploration. Oh, and just so we are clear, commerce is basically just a big word for ...
Ouch. “Old” doesn’t hurt so much even though this is a guy who went to the trouble of hair plugs and tooth caps, but “stupid” hits close to home. Joe has gone through life feeling that he had a lot to prove about himself. He was right about that. What he was wrong about ...
RA: We know that the other countries, such as the Islamic Arab countries, also agreed that it should come to consensus. Because in the Qu’ranic verse it is said that you should always come to an agreement. Of course you have different opinions, but if you have different opinions, you ...
7After consulting the archival sources, historians tend to think that whilst Stalin succeeded in creating a synthesis for action, both imperialistic and revolutionary, there was no big plan for Central and Eastern Europe. Instead, many little plans were drawn up in order to govern each front and...
the Edict of Milan. With this decree, for the first time in its nearly three-hundred year existence, Christianity was formally recognized as a legal religion within the Roman Empire. We have previously shown that cessation of testimony was sufficient to save a Christian from the Jewish persecutio...