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Romulus and Remus were twin brothers. Their father was Mars, the God of War, their mother was Rhea Silvia, a vestal virgin and daughter of the King, Numitor. Numitor’s brother, Amulius, had taken the throne from him and had forced Rhea Silvia to become a vestal virgin so that she wo...
But given the boldness of Bouie’s claim and the support he received, his challenge to “grapple with” the troubling aspects of the Enlightenment seems worth taking up. If reflection on the long history of racial prejudice, on the diverse legacies of the Enlightenment, and the troubled relatio...
took the time to explain the reasons behind Greece’s flourishing, and what its economic rise and political fall can tell us about our own world.古典希腊时期(大约公元前4-5世纪)对于西方文明有着深远的影响,构建了其政治、哲学和艺术科学思想的基础。为何...
Other topics include the fall of the Roman Empire and barbarian invasions and the ideas of English historian Edward Gibbon.REINERTResearch Fellow in HistorySOPHUS A.Research Fellow in HistoryAmerican Historical ReviewReinert, S.A. (2010), «Lessons on the Rise and Fall of Great Powers: Conquest...
The concept of imperial decline beginning with the reign of Commodus is largely adapted from Edward Gibbon's rather arbitrary work, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" and may have been a bit premature considering that the western empire endured for another three centuries. ...
This chapter explicates Ibn Khaldun’s theory of the rise and fall of states and discusses its relevance for understanding classical and contemporary social cycles. We also present an overview of the comparative world-systems approach to bounding social