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A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was Greece Author: Jewsbury, Lewis Date: 1992 The Agora The Agora in ancient Greek cities was an open space that served as a meeting ground for various activities of the citizens. The name, first found in the works of Homer, connotes both the assembly of th...

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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...

A History of Ancient Greece Author: Robert GuisepiDate: 1998 AEGEAN CIVILIZATION The earliest civilization in Europe appeared on the coasts and islands of the Aegean Sea. This body of water, a branch of the Mediterranean Sea, is bounded by the Greek mainland on the west, Asia Minor (now Turkey) on t...

ENKI, A SUMERIAN HIGH GOD 'Enki and the World Order' is one of the longest and best preserved of the extant Sumerian narrative poems. The poem begins with a hymn of praise addressed to Enki; some of it is destroyed and unintelligible, but generally speaking, it seems to exalt Enki as the god who wat...

Terrorism In Early AmericaThe U.S. Wages War Against The BarbaryStates To End International Blackmail and Terrorism By Thomas JewettThe events of September 11, 2001 shocked the United States out of its complacency concerning its invulnerability. Even though the U.S. has the most powerful military ma...

Birth Of Modern Scientific Methods, Bacon And Descartes Author: Lewes, George Henry 1620 Three centuries of modern thought have not sufficed to settle the dispute as to its own origin. Many Englishmen still claim insistently that Lord Bacon, in his Advancement of Learning, and still more positive...

b. Sept. 15?, AD 53, Italica, Baetica [now in Spain]d. Aug. 8/9, 117, Selinus, Cilicia [now in Turkey] Latin IN FULL CAESAR DIVI NERVAE FILIUS NERVA TRAIANUS OPTIMUS AUGUSTUS, also called ( 9798) CAESAR NERVA TRAIANUS GERMANICUS, ORIGINAL NAME MARCUS ULPIUS TRAIANUS, Roman emperor (AD 98-117), the f...

World War Two Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001 The Holocaust We played, we laughed, we were loved. We were ripped from the arms of our parents and thrown into the fire. We were nothing more then children. We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, teachers, rabbis, wives, doctors, mothers. ...

The Iberian Golden AgeEuropean Expansion: Exploration And Colonization, 1400-1650Author: Allen PikermanDate: 2002IntroductionDuring the fifteenth century, Europe began a process of unprecedentedexpansion that by 1650 had affected all areas of the world. This was actuallypart of a global tendency tow...

Ancient Rome Caesar Conquers Gaul Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed by permission) "Reme...

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT. Passed by Congress in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act has been called the most momentous piece of legislation in the United States before the American Civil War. It set in motion events that led directly to the conflict over slavery. In January 1854, with the support of President ...