While he was hated by many Athenians, who believed in democracy not monarchies or empires — and while, Cartledge says, some followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion, still think of him as evil for destroying their ancient records in Persepolis, modern-day Iran — since his...
As the concept of republics gained momentum, royals were ousted across Europe and its colonial empire. Of the monarchies that remain today, many serve a symbolic purpose rather than that of political ruler. Regardless, the legacy of dazzling jewelry collections from monarchies past continues to capt...
Portugal was first released from Muslim rule in 868 as the County of Portugal and part of the larger Christian monarchies to the north. In 1071, Portugal was annexed directly into Galicia but eventually became a county again. Kingdom of Portugal In 1112, the young prince Afonso Henriques was...
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While he was hated by many Athenians, who believed in democracy not monarchies or empires — and while, Cartledge says, some followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion, still think of him as evil for destroying their ancient records in Persepolis, modern-day Iran — since his...
There was not one Chinese Neolithic but a mosaic of regionalcultureswhose scope and significance are still being determined. Their location in the area defined today as China does not necessarily mean that all the Neolithic cultures were Chinese or even proto-Chinese. Their contributions to the Bro...
As the old feudal regimes collapsed and were replaced by centralized monarchies during the Zhanguo period, the feudal nobility fell victim to power struggles within the states and to conquest by stronger states. During the Chunqiu period these parallel processes drastically reduced the numbers of the...
privileges under all of the above monarchies. In the late 18th century the city was a haven ofEnlightenmentthought; the publisher Hartknoch printed majortreatisesby philosophersJohann Georg Hamann,Johann Gottfried von Herder, andImmanuel Kantas well as German translations of the work ofJean-Jacques ...
monarchies, and a commercial centre rivaled only byVenicein theLevanttrade and competing with other Italian towns in trade with western Europe. Eastern spices, dyestuffs and medicaments, western cloth and metals, African wool, skins, coral, and gold were the main articles of a very diversified ...
Some individuals were able to take advantage of the manual labour of others to amass enough wealth to patronize a wide range of arts and crafts; of these, a few were able to establish territorial monarchies and foster religious institutions with wider appeal. Gradually the familiar troika of ...