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Cosmogony and cosmology Thorkild Jacobsen: Professor of Assyriology,Harvard University, 1962-74. Author of The Sumerian Kinglist; "Mesopotamia"in The Intellectual History of Ancient Man Reprinted by Permission Though the "Eridu Genesis" may have come close to treating existence as a whole, a true co...

DEAD SEA SCROLLS The ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls have been called by scholars "the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times." They include books of the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) and non-biblical texts dating from 100 bc to ad 68. They are not origina...

Kingdom Of Italy EstablishedAuthor: Garibaldi, Giuseppe;Probyn, John WebbBy Giuseppe Garibaldi1860After the suppression of the Italian Revolution, by Austria, in 1849, andthe restoration of Austrian power in Italy, Charles Albert, King of Sardinia,who had headed the movement for Italian independence...

Conquest Of Africa By The Vandals. Vandals, ancient Germanic tribe of Jutland (now in Denmark), who migrated to the valley of the Odra (Oder) River about the 5th century BC. During the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD they settled along the Danube River. They entered Gaul (now France) in 406, invaded Spain ...

Ancient Rome was a powerful civilization that existed from 753 BCE to 476 CE. It was located in the central part of the Italian peninsula and was known for its military prowess, political and legal systems, and architectural and engineering achievements. Ancient Rome is considered to be one of the m...

THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION: To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Conne...

VIETNAM WAR STATISTICS IN UNIFORM AND IN COUNTRY... Vietnam Vets: 9.7% of their generation.9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the Vietnam Era (Aug. 5, 1964-May 7, 1975).8,744,000 GIs were on active duty during the war (Aug 5, 1964 - March 28, 1973).3,403,100 (Including 514,30...

History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians Book: Part II: The Rise Of Assyria And Its Struggles With Kassite Babylonia Author: Godspeed, George Times Of Tiglathpileser I. 1100 B.C. 133. The splendid extension of Assyrian authority to the northwest, achieved by Shalmaneser I. and his successors (sect....

COMPROMISE OF 1850. At the close of the Mexican War, in 1848, the United States owned vast stretches of territory without local government. All the land now included in New Mexico, Arizona, and California was then unsettled. In 1848, however, gold was discovered in California. Thousands of people, c...

Mesopotamia The International History Project Date: 2003 Mesopotamia is a region, not a country. The emergence of Mesopotamian civilization The Late Neolithic Period and the Chalcolithic Period. Between about 10,000 BC and the genesis of large permanent settlements, the following stages of developme...

The Renaissance Beginning And Progress Of The Renaissance Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Fourteenth To Sixteenth Century Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. The Italian Renaissance had placed human beings once more in the center of life's stage and infused thought and...

The Middle Ages Date: 1992 During the decline of the Roman Empire, the migrations of a strong, rude people began to change the life of Europe. They were the German barbarians, or Teutonic tribes, who swept across the Rhine and the Danube into the empire. There they accepted Christianity. The union o...