About 80 such fast-food eateries have been found at Pompeii.But the latest find means this is the first time such a hot-food-drink eatery—known as a thermopolium—has been completely unearthed.Pompeii was destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.Part of the fast...
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ALEXANDER: A UNIVERSAL MONARCHY 1/ALEXANDER: A UNIVERSAL MONARCHY s The young king: his education s Campaigns in the Balkans s Thebes revolts and is destroyed s Preparation for war against the Achaemenid Empire Alexander, the third of that name in the Macedonian dynasty of the Argeads, was ...