The title Persepolis is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire. Who destroyed Persia? At his death eleven years later, Alexander ruled the largest empire of the ancient world. His victory at the battle of Gaugamela on the Persian plains was a decisive conquest that insured...
When was Hadrian born? When did the Shang Dynasty begin? When did the Celts live in Europe? When was the Totonac civilization created? When did the Persian Empire begin? When was the Varangian Guard founded? When did the Achaemenid Empire begin?
When was Carthage founded? When were the Persian wars? When did Abraham leave Mesopotamia? When did Tacitus live? When did the Neo-Babylonian Empire start and end? When did Hellenism start? When did Sumer become a kingdom? When was the Babylonian calendar invented?
A college dropout who turned a failing billboard business into a media empire. The creator of the first 24-hour news channel, CNN, and the person who revolutionized the cable television industry. He was known as “The Mouth of the South” and “Captain Outrageous” for his controversial stat...
Rome was founded as a small farming town in 753 BC. It grew to a vast empire that enveloped the whole Mediterranean Sea. It spanned from the western shores of what is now Portugal‚ to as far as the moderndayPersian Gulf to the east. It remained as the world’s largest and most ...
When was the Egyptian calendar made? When did the Renaissance start? When was the Ancient Greek alphabet invented? When did the Bantu civilization start? When was the Acropolis Museum founded? When did Antiphon of Greece live? When did Zoroastrianism start in the Persian Empire? When did the ...
“The First hammer stroke upon the old palace of Ziani was the first act of the period properly called the Renaissance. It was the knell of the architecture of Venice, and of Venice herself.” Ruskin. Petrarch’s library founded by Grimani Breviary. S. Maria Formsa, “St. Barbara” ...
When was Islam founded? Although its roots go back further, scholars typically date the creation of Islam to the7th century, making it the youngest of the major world religions. Islam started in Mecca, in modern-day Saudi Arabia, during the time of the prophet Muhammad's life. Today, the...
The old Roman Empire, known to modern historians as the Byzantine Empire, was reduced to little more than Greece. In desperation, the emperor in Constantinople sent word to the Christians of western [sic] Europe asking them to aid their brothers and sisters in the East. ...
Whilst an Islamic state was founded by Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, China was enduring a period of unification and defense. Early Chinese annals mentioned Muslim Arabs and called their kingdom al-Medina (of Arabia). Islam in Chinese is called “Yisilan ...