Tag: world history

Persia Xerxes Author: Grote, George Xerxes (486-465 BC), Darius' eldest son by Queen Atossa, was born after his father had come to the throne; he had been designated official heir perhaps as early as 498 BC, and while crown prince he had ruled as the King's governor in Babylon. The new king quickly ...

Plutarch's Lives: FLAMININUS What Titus Quintius Flamininus, whom we select as a parallel toPhilopoemen, was in personal appearance, those who are curious maysee by the brazen statue of him, which stands in Rome near that ofthe great Apollo, brought from Carthage, opposite to the CircusMaximus, with...

THE GREAT HYMN TO SHAMASH Among the longest and most beautiful of the hymns that have come down to us in cuneiform, this ranks as one of the best products of Mesopotamian religious writing. 21. You climb to the mountains surveying the earth, 22. You suspend from the heavens the circle of the lands....

Unforgotten Sons of God They did not know it themselves--those boys of ours whose remembered faces in every home should be cherished symbols of the true, for life or death--what were their lofty deeds of body, mind, heart, soul, on that tremendous day. Unknown--but kept! The earth itself shall be i...

Ancient Sumerian/Mesopotamian Laws 1. BE it enacted forever and for all future days: If a son say to his father, "You are not my father," he [the father] can cut off his [the son's] locks, make him a slave and sell him for money. If a son say to his mother, "You are not my mother," she can cut off h...

William Lloyd Garrison b. Dec. 10/12, 1805, Newburyport, Mass., U.S.d. May 24, 1879, New York City U.S. Garrison was a journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831-65), and helped lead the successful Abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States. Garrison was the...

The Hurrians The Rise of the Hurrians Robert Antonio The Hurrians enter the orbit of ancient Middle Eastern civilization toward the end of the 3rd millennium BC. They arrived in Mesopotamia from the north or the east, but it is not known how long they had lived in the peripheral regions. There is a...

The Turning Point For the last two months, the great air battle that had raged over south-east England was to go down in history as one of the most important battles that Britain had to overcome. We cannot argue that the German Luftwaffe was by no means an inferior opponent, on the contrary, as far...

Australia And The Islands Of The Sea, Part Three Author: Larkin, Dunton Chapter VII. Tasmania. Tasmania lies a hundred and thirty miles south of Australia, from which it is separated by Bass Strait. It was known formerly as Van Diemen's Land, and contains an area of more than twenty-six thousand sq...

The American Civil War, Frederick Douglass Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002One of the most influential Americans of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly for the freedom of all Americans. He was amongst the first to speak out in favor of Woman's rights. Yet, few people today are aware...

THOMAS JEFFERSON Written by, Dr. Joseph John Ellis Here was Buried THOMAS JEFFERSON Author of the Declaration of American Independence of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and Father of the University of Virginia The third president of the United States was Thomas Jefferson. He had bee...

Harold II (born 1022?, ruled 1066), the last king of the Anglo-Saxon period, reigned for only nine months. He was the son of the powerful Earl Godwine and was himself earl of East Anglia and of Wessex before he was chosen king. Most of the time from 1055 until 1066 was spent in conflict with other c...