Tag: world history

Mesopotamia Edited By: Robert Guisepi Mesopotamia is a region, not a country. Refer to the individual Peoples that made up Mesopotamia; the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and to some degree the Hittites, Phoenicians and PersiansIn the narrow sense, Mesopotamia is the area b...

SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD In the ancient world there were seven great man-made structures for travelers to see on a world tour. Lists of the so-called seven wonders of the world sometimes varied. The following list, dating from about the 6th century AD, was a commonly used and standard one: (1) the...

Australian ConfederationAuthor: Grey, J. GrattanAustralian Confederation1901It has always been a question with geographers whether to class Australiaas an island or as a continent, some arguing that it is too small for the one,and others that it is too large for the other. However that may be, itsis...

Persia Darius The Great Author: Grote, George DARIUS THE GREAT, king of Persia in 522-486 BC, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty, who was noted for his administrative genius and for his great building projects. Darius attempted several times to conquer Greece; his fleet was destroy...

The Sumerian king list: translation (In the following translation, mss. are referred to by the sigla used by Vincente 1995; from those listed there, mss. Fi, Go, P6, and WB 62 were not used; if not specified by a note, numerical data come from ms. WB.) After the kingship descended from heaven, the k...

Beginnings Of ChinaAuthor: Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992A Bend In The River And The Beginnings Of ChinaThe region that gave birth to Chinese civilization was less promisingthan the once-fertile Indus plains. The Yellow River, from its source on theTibetan plateau, turns and bends its way through the...

Attila FLAGELLUM DEI (LATIN: SCOURGE OF GOD), king of the Huns from 434 to 453 (ruling jointly with his elder brother Bleda until 445). He was one of the greatest of the barbarian rulers who assailed the Roman Empire, invading the southern Balkan provinces and Greece and then Gaul and Italy. In lege...

Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Egypt The pre-dynastic and early dynastic periods The peoples of pre-dynastic Egypt were the successors of the Paleolithic inhabitants of northeastern Africa, who had spread over much of its area; during wet phases they had left remains in regions as inhospitable as the Gr...

The Story of Science Civilizations Past And Present The European Dream Of Progress And Enlightenment Impact Of The Scientific Revolution Science, Art, And Philosophy In The Eighteenth Century Introduction In the eighteenth century, while royal absolutism faced serious problems, many learned and tho...

Saint-Simon's Portrait of Louis XIVfrom "Parallele des trois premiers rois Bourbons" (written in 1746), Ecrits inedits de Saint-Simon I, 84 sqqin J.H. Robinson, Readings in European History 2 vols. (Boston: Ginn, 1906), 2:285-286.Scanned by Brian Cheek, Hanover College. November 12, 1995. Louis XIV'...

Persia Darius as an administrator. Author: Grote, George Although Darius consolidated and added to the conquests of his predecessors, it was as an administrator that he made his greatest contribution to Persian history. He completed the organization of the empire into satrapies, initiated by Cyrus t...

The History Of Spain To The Conquest Of GranadaAuthor: Hallam, Henry Part IKingdom of the Visigoths - Conquest of Spain by the Moors - GradualRevival of the Spanish Nation - Kingdoms of Leon, Aragon, Navarre, andCastile, successively formed - Chartered Towns of Castile - Military Orders -Conquest of...