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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...

LAMENT FOR UR For the gods have abandoned us like migrating birds they have gone Ur is destroyed, bitter is its lament The country's blood now fills its holes like hot bronze in a mould Bodies dissolve like fat in the sun. Our temple is destroyed Smoke lies on our city like a shroud. blood flows as ...

The Middle Ages Political Organization In The Early Middle Ages The centralization of the Carolingian state was not long a source of political stability in western Europe in the early Middle Ages. In those areas where the Carolingian Empire had little impact, and even in the regions which were at s...

Poem of the Righteous Sufferer The Babylonian Job Ancient Mesopotamian literature shows the eventual rejection of the pre-moral beliefs and practices that are described in epic tales and early hymns. The following lines from a hymn to the great Sumerian god Eniii reflect the once close relationship...

A History of Ancient Greece LegacyAuthor: Robert Guisepi Date: 1998 A Vital LegacyThe final complexity in dealing with classical Greece (and then Rome)involves its relationship to us - to contemporary residents of North America.For most Americans, Greece constitutes the first phase of "our own" clas...

Trajan 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)...

Description of Huns and Goths About AD 390 By Ammianus Marcellinus Source: Robinson, James, ed. Readings in European History. Vol. I. Boston & New York: Ginn & Co., 1904. Ammianus Marcellinus, a retired Roman soldier, wrote his descriptions of the Huns and Goths more than a decade after 376...

First Swiss Struggle For LibertyAuthor: Baker, Grenfell F.First Swiss Struggle For Liberty1308Owing to the fact that the house of Hapsburg had its origin inSwitzerland, the accession of Rudolph I, founder of the Hapsburg dynasty, tothe throne of Germany (1273), with the virtual headship of the Holy ...

Amerigo Vespucci's Account Of His First Voyage Author: Vespucci, AmerigoDate: 1497Amerigo Vespucci's Account Of His First Voyage Introduction Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence in 1452 and died in Seville in 1512. He was employed in the latter city in the business house which fitted out Columbus...

Ancient Rome Rome Established As A Republic 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 "Remember, Roman, tha...

A History Christianity Nearly all that is known about the life of Jesus, also called Jesus Christ, after whom Christianity is named, is contained in the four Gospels of the New Testament, particularly those of Mark, Matthew, and Luke. These accounts were written 60 to 100 or more years after the b...

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...