The most straightforward theory for WesternRome’scollapse pins the fall on a string of military losses sustained against outside forces. Rome had tangled with Germanic tribes for centuries, but by the 300s “barbarian” groups like the Goths had encroached beyond the Empire’s borders. The Rom...
Why was the Venerable Bede important? Why was the Holy Roman Empire important? Why did the Mauryan Empire fall? Why are the Upanishads important to world history? Why was Oda Nobunaga important? Why was Jayaatu Khan important? Why is the spread of the Mongol Empire important?
Political and environmental problems often led to the decline of one area, while another area grew possibly because they were not suffering as badly from these problems. Modern Maya RELATED MYSTERIES —What was the largest empire in the world? —Why did Rome fall? —How do we decipher ...
For 2024, some simple lifestyle changes can improve your little piece of the planet WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITHOUT A LEAP DAY? Eventually, nothing good in terms of when major events fall, when farmers plant and how seasons align with the sun and the moon. “Without the leap years, after...
the result of not knowing either what good policies are (this was the old Washington Consensus) or, now that the focus has shifted to institutions, what good institutions are or how to create them. Many development agencies act as if leaders in developing countries want to do the right ...
Stephen King:If you go back over the last three or four years and you think about, when did inflation first surprise on the upside? When did it start coming in higher than people anticipated? When were the financial markets beginning to think, oh, this is a bit...
and there are 13 phases of the Moon in each solar year.tricky/ˈtrɪk.i/adj.难对付的phase/feɪz/n.阶段coincide with/ˌkəʊ.ɪnˈsaɪd/v.与...同时发生solar calendar n.阳历Some of the earliestcivilizations o...
during the reduction of the rural population to the status of serfs, slavery disappeared from Europe. At a time when it was possible for elites to reduce the entire rural population to serfdom, it did not seem necessary to have a separate class of slaves as every previous society had had....
It was the version of Scripture translated from the temple Hebrew canon under the oversight of the high priesthood used by Greek-speaking Jews and Gentile “God-fearers” of the Roman Empire, our Lord Jesus and the Apostles. The Septuagint was received into the Church in its Greek, Aramaic ...
There have been places and periods of history, when only a congenital optimist could have had any hope for the future of our species. Think of the end of Athens' golden age, the fall of the Roman Empire, the petering out of the Renaissance, the end of the Enlightenment, the rise of ...