The Persian Empire:The Persian Empire may not have been the first empire, but it was one of the strongest and largest in human history. It is well known for its successful unification of a large region and of such different people. From the Nile Valley to Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley,...
How long was the Peloponnesian War? What caused the Peloponnesian War from Athen's perspective? What did Athenians do once the Peloponnesian War started? What role did Athens have in the Peloponnesian War? What did Thucydides believe caused the Peloponnesian War?
How long did the Egyptian empire last? How long did the Greek empire last? Read on to find the answers and learn about the lifespan of 55 civilizations! How Long Does a Civilization Last? Recently, I was talking with a colleague at work, and I mentioned that civilizations usually only ...
Gone was the shorter “dory” or Greek wooden spear (7 feet long), and in its place was the much longer sarissa, an 18- to 22-foot hunting spear with an iron tip that could puncture heavy armor and impale charging cavalry horses. Ancient Empires Watch the three-episode documentary ...
The ancient city of Babylon was the site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, as well as the Tower of Babel, grand palaces and ziggurats. See more pictures of the seven wonders. Three Lions / Getty Images Seven has long been considered a magical number, and that made July 7, 2007 (7/07...
However, does a man deserve to be called ‘The Great’ who was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of his own men and for the unnecessary wholesale slaughter of native peoples? How ‘great’ is a king who prefers constant warfare over consolidating conquered territories and long-...
Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian WorldJorge Flores
The term comes from the Arabic word “Bardag”, meaning slave boy, which in turn comes from the Persian expression “Hardah” that means slave. Keep in mind that in the Roman Empire was transformed the Greek homosexual construction system, teacher-pupil, to the master-slave system that ...
but that financial perspective has subsequently been hidden from us by worthies such as St. Augustine of Hippo, who did favors for the Roman oligarchy by rejiggering Christianity in a way that was beneficial to the balance sheets of the rich instead of detrimental in the way that debt forgiv...
500 years, ever since the Athenians and Spartans defeated the Persian emperor in a nearby sea battle for Mediterranean supremacy. But as the crowd in the square knew, Tsipras’s own government had sold off Piraeus, years earlier, to a modern-day empire intent on expanding its own power: ...