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A History of Ancient Greece Ancient History Sourcebook:Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE):The Spartan War Machine, c. 375 BCE In the first instance, the ephors announce in proclamation the limit of age to which the service applies for cavalry and heavy infantry; and, in the next place, for the various arti...

Persia The International History Project, 2004 Edited By: Robert Guisepi The History Of the Ancient Persian Empire From Rise To Fall A history of the Persians including their empire, rulers like Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes as well as their cities, rise and fall Persia, conventional European designatio...

What was it like, that first time under fire? In real battle during the U.S. Civil War? Brothers of the native soil against brothers of the same good earth? Said (or wrote) an officer from Maine sometime after: "The behavior of those who were hit appeared to be singular; and, as there were so many o...

A History of Ancient Greece Philosophy Of HistoryBook: Part II. The Greek World.Author: Hegel, G.W.F.Date: 1857 Translation: Sibree, J., M.A.Section I. The Elements Of The Greek Spirit.Greece is [that form of] the Substantial [i.e. of Moral and IntellectualPrinciple,] which is at the same time indiv...

Mesopotamian/Sumerian Calendar In Mesopotamia the solar year was divided into two seasons, the "summer," which included the barley harvests in the second half of May or in the beginning of June, and the "winter," which roughly corresponded to today's fall-winter. Three seasons (Assyria) and four sea...

Dawn Of Civilization B.C. 5867 Author: Maspero, G. C. C. It is a far cry to hark back to 11,000 years before Christ, yet borings in the valley of the Nile, whence comes the first recorded history of the human race, have unveiled to the light pottery and other relics of civilization that, at the rat...

Hammurabi Code of Laws Translated by L. W. King When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they...

A History of Ancient Greece Religions Of GreeceAuthor: Foot Moore, GeorgeDate: 1913Religion In Early GreeceThe Aegaean Civilisation - The Hellenic Migrations - Prehellenic andGreek Religion - The Land - The Gods - Zeus - Artemis - Apollo - Hermes -Athena - Aphrodite - Hera - Hephaistos - Ares - Othe...

The American Civil War, Frederick Douglass Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 A General Survey of the Slave Plantation by Frederick Douglass It was generally supposed that slavery in the State of Maryland existed in its mildest form, and that it was totally divested of those harsh and terrible peculiari...

The following would have been a typical day in the life of a Battle of Britain pilot The sequences are based on the works of different authors with the exception that the names have been changed. This is just to give you an idea as to how a pilot may have spent his day at the height of the battle. ...

Holy Roman Empire, TheCareer Of Charlemagne Author: Guizot, Francois P. G. Part I. 772 - 814 In Charles, the son of Pepin the Short, later known as Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, the Carlovingians saw the culminating glory of their line, while in French history the splendor of his name outshine ...

Travels Of Marco PoloBook: PrologueAuthor: Polo, MarcoPrologue Great princes, emperors and kings, dukes and marquises, counts, knights,and burgesses! and people of all degrees who desire to get knowledge of thevarious races of mankind and of the diversities of the sundry regions of theWorld, take t...