What is Jewish Law? Jewish Legal Culture and Thought in Antiquity (Fifth Century bce to Seventh Century ce )Jewish LawcovenantHalakhahrabbisMishnahTalmudDead Sea ScrollsJosephusHasmoneanslaw codeThis essay will explore the place of "law" in Jewish thought, its foundational concepts and religious ...
The Anno Domini year-numbering system was introduced by a Christian monk named Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century. The year count starts with year 1 in the Gregorian calendar. This is supposed to be thebirth year of Jesus, although modern historians generally doubt that this is correct. The...
Governments began issuing debts to fund war efforts during the Middle Ages. The Bank of England was created to finance the British Navy in the 1600s. The United States began issuing Treasury bonds to support the Revolutionary War nearly a century later.1213 The early practice of options is out...
In the same century, Democritus theorized that all matter is made of small, indivisible structures called atoms. Despite being unable to see or go beyond the theoretical, his theory was largely proven to be true 1,400 years later and became the basis of modern atomic theory. The Ancient Gree...
Textiles were woven or spun by hand up to the turn of the 20th century. Throughout the majority of Europe, the Near East, and North Africa, two major types of looms dominated textile production from prehistory until the early Middle Ages. They are the two-beam loom and the warp-weighted...
Another Mid Autumn Festival tradition is the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance. Unique to Hong Kong, it began in the 19th century when Tai Hang villagers held the event to drive away bad luck. It has since made its way onto the national list of intangible cultural heritage. This year’s Tai Ha...
while Egyptians similarly counted their years based on the years a king ruled. Yet in the sixth century (at least what we’d call the sixth century today), people in power wanted a consistent way to keep track of the years so that everyone was on the same page. In particular, Christian...
In what century did the Chinese Three Kingdoms exist? Who was the last ruler of the Xia dynasty? Which dynasty followed the Yuan dynasty of Kublai Khan? What empire ruled China before Mongols came? Who was the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty?
The ancient Chinese numeral system found on bones and tortoise shells of the late Shang dynasty in the fourteenth century BCE was the first multiplicative-additive system based on the decimal system and was both additive and multiplicative in nature. Here is a selection of Shang oracle bone numera...
t until much later that the first written record of formal codes can be found. The Rhodian Sea Laws, formed around 900 BCE, set official rules for the Mediterranean Sea. These laws governed seafaring trade in the area, influenced the Romans, and remained in effect through the 12th century....