39K The Persian Empire once stretched across portions of Eurasia and northern Africa. Explore who the Persians were, and better understand key elements of their government (e.g. emperors, satraps, soldiers, and
Some people think that water ices and milk ices may have been made by the Chinese between three thousand and a thousand years ago. In that time, the dish reached India. The Indians, in turn, many have passed on the secret to the Arabs and Persians.Marco Polo, an Italian who travelled ...
Who were the Celts?The Celts:The Celts are a mysterious people who lived in Europe during the Iron Age. The Celts left very few historical records behind, thus leaving historians with second-hand Roman accounts written in the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE to reconstruct Celtic life and history. ...
The Persians called the game shah, which means "king," and chess historians like Marilyn Yolam believe that's how we got our word chess. When the game of shah arrived in Europe centuries later, the Persian name was Latinized as scacus. In various Latinate languages, that became scacchi ...
Who Were the Amazons? A recent BBC article about the “Witches of Bucha”—a Ukrainian volunteer air defense unit primarily composed of women—brought to mindfierce female warriors from history and legend: Queen Boudica of the ancient British Iceni tribe, the shield-maidens of Scandinavian sagas,...
The Indians, in turn, many have passed on the secret to the Arabs and Persians. Marco Polo, an Italian who travelled widely in the thirteenth century, noted that he found the Chinesehad long been making ices out of fruit juices and milk. From the fourteenth century on, ices became ...
252/253 (the date is disputed)after a Roman field army was destroyed in the Battle of Barbalissos by the King of Persia Shapur I which left the Euphrates river unguarded and the region was pillaged by the Persians. ... From 268 to 273, Syria was part of the breakaway Palmyrene ...
the Greek victory over the Persians; the famous democratic leader, Pericles, who prepared Athens and directed its conflict with Sparta, known as the Peloponnesian War; the Athenian general Demosthenes, who deviated from contemporary conventions of warfare with his innovative approach; the Spartan ...
Though many of these cities were Greek in origin and maintained their culture and language, they were ruled by the Persians. Persian rule was simple compared to many other ancient civilizations. The Persian emperor created satraps, or provinces, that were self governed regions that were subservient...
passed on the secret to the Arabs and Persians. The Persians called their dish Sharbat, from which our word sherbet (冰冻果子露)comes. Marco Polo, an Italian who traveled widely in the thirteenth century, noted that he found the Chinese had long been making ices out of fruit juices and ...