Why did the Old Kingdom of Egypt collapse? Why was Tutankhamun so important? Why was Alexandria, Egypt important during the Hellenistic period? Why were the Hittites important? Why are the Hittites significant in Mesopotamian history? Why did Horemheb dislike King Tut?
The Old Kingdom in Egypt also collapsed during this period. The largest cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, such as Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, were ultimately abandoned due to this prolonged drought (Weiss, 1996). This is the first confirmed instance of a climate-related civilization ...
Why did the Old Kingdom of Egypt collapse? Why did the 1683 Siege of Vienna fail? Why are Hungarians called Magyars? Why did civil war break out in Yugoslavia? Why was Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated? How did Austria-Hungary react? Why was the Russian army near collapse by 1916?
For an instant, Zheng felt that he was very small, and the map on his table was larger than the room, larger than his tent or the camp that contained it, until it sprawled as vast as the kingdom of Yan itself. What the Son of Heaven did not know was that the man in his tent ...
21st century. I accurately predicted the collapse of certain African states in the late 1990s and therise of political Islam in Turkeyand other places. Islam, I wrote, was a religion ideally suited for the badly urbanized poor who were willing tofight. I also got things wrong, such as the...
In the Bible, rivers always represent the economic backbone of cultures and societies (Genesis 2:10-14 covers the entire fertile crescent from Ethiopia to the Indus Valley), and the death of the fish in the Nile heralded the accumulative collapse of Egypt's entire system (Exodus 7:18, also...
engaging in trade or working for the King of Egypt as mercenary soldiers. Indeed, the Greeks had another basic export besides olive oil and wine, and that was warriors. Since the Greek cities fought among themselves all the time, the occasional peace left many of them seeking to continue ...
Mass literacy — making humanity a kingdom of priests of the deity of shared and public information, instead of the esoteric service of some celebrated hunk of stone (Exodus 19:6); The postal service — creating the intellectual equivalent of the hydrological cycle: the original Internet, a ...
The issue that as a country we should focus on is to have more planes that fly and are permitted to land outside the country. Our planes need retooling. They are old. We have the other plane, which is stuck in Egypt because we could not pay for the service, it's a big challenge....
Why All the Fuss about Idols? The strange practice that led to a kingdom’s fall. YOU CANNOT READ VERY FAR in the Old Testament without encountering idols, for idolatry ranks as perhaps the most common topic in the Bible. A nagging question haunts these pages: Why did the Israelit...