What invasion brought down the Achaemenid dynasty? Who was the last king of the Persian Empire? Who was the first vizier in the Seljuk Empire? Who conquered the Hittites? Who took over the Babylonian empire? Where was the Achaemenid Empire located?
He was not even 17 years old when he took the purple. The boy-emperor loved the arts and sports and found an outlet in theater plays and sports events, including chariot racing. Such behavior made him popular among the common folk. However, it was considered undignified (and effeminate) ...
The Heritage Foundation juxtaposes it with “balkanized”, another geographic term (describing a former portion of the Byzantine Empire) that has been turned into a pejorative, here meaning a whole divided into small, mutually-opposed parts. “Byzantine”, in fact, is a word that the so-called...
He encouraged military support for the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I against the Seljuk Turks and an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem. A precedent was set by the enthusiastic western European response across all social strata. Historians debate the combination of motivations of the volunteers who took a ...
down to inform the elder pokora, a polish-born construction worker, that his only son wouldn’t be returning to canada for a very long time; his father responded by burying his head in his calloused hands. gutted to have caused the usually stoic man such anguish, david wished he could ...
cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made…”; and as Scripture explains, the righteous king did these things because“he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses....
the Romans were forced for protection to pay greater allegiance to the Pope. The Lombards having invaded and reduced Italy into several cantons, the Pope took the opportunity, and began to hold up his head. For being, as it were, governor and principal of Rome, the emperor of Constantinople...
A restaurant with a good view and a mosque in the background People go down to the edge of the river Another mosque with the smaller bridge one thing you have to note is that the old town and the bridge are paved with stones which have been polished over the years by millions of tour...
Someone down the centuries might try to reunite the country but it really depends on the incentives involved. But if China has to reunite under one of two then the matchup looks something like this in my extremely biased opinion: Defensive: It took forty years...
Quite a bit, actually. Her life started out about as far from the imperial throne of the Byzantine Empire as a girl could get. Her father was a bear trainer and her mother was a dancer and actress (and as we all know, before the 20th century “dancer” and “actress” were usually ...