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The History Of PontusBook: Chapter I.Author: Rollins, CharlesDate: 1731Section I, Part I.This book includes the space of sixty years, which is three more than thereign of Mithridates, from the year of the world 3880 to the year 3943.Mithridates Ascends The Throne Of Pontus. Library Of Athens Carried...

Venetians And Crusaders Take Constantinople Author: Pears, Edwin Venetians And Crusaders Take Constantinople Plunder Of The Sacred Relics, A.D. 1204 In the treaty arranged at the end of the Third Crusade (1192) it was stipulated that all hostilities between the Christians and the Moslems should cea...

Sumerian Territorial States More difficult than describing its external relations is the task of shedding light on the internal structure of a state like Lagash. For the first time, a state consisting of more than a city with its surrounding territory came into being, because aggressively minded rul...

History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire State Of Italy Under The Lombards. Author: Gibbon, Edward Date: 1782 (Written), 1845 (Revised) Part III. So rapid was the influence of climate and example, that the Lombards of the fourth generation surveyed with curiosity and affright the portr...

De Soto Discovers The Mississippi Author: Abbott, John S. C. De Soto Discovers The Mississippi 1541From the eastern coast of Florida the Spaniards made early explorations of the interior until they reached the Mississippi River. Florida, which was discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513, was soon v...

Lydians, The History Of TheAuthor: Rollin, CharlesDate: 1731 The kings who first reigned over the Lydians, are by Herodotus calledAtyades; that is, descendants from Atys. ^1179 These, he tells us, derivedtheir origin from Lydus, the son of Atys; and Lydus gave the name of Lydiansto that people, who,...

The Origins Of Civilizations The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The Middle East By 4000 B.C.: The Causes Of Civilization As you have seen, one reason that civilization first appeared in the Middle East was because agriculture had taken ho...

The American Civil War, Abolition, Jefferson Davis During the Civil War, Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States and Abraham Lincoln led the United States. Both were born in Kentucky, several months apart, Davis on June 3, 1808. The Lincolns moved to Indiana soon after, then to Illin...

KANT, Immanuel (1724-1804). The philosopher of the 1700s who ranks with Aristotle and Plato of ancient times is Immanuel Kant. He set forth a chain of explosive ideas that humanity has continued to ponder since his time. He created a link between the idealists--those who thought that all reality was...

Ancient Rome The Roman Way of Declaring War 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 permis...

The Battle of Britain 1940 Groups and Sectors of the RAF Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force was divided into a number of groups and Great Britain was covered by four operational groups in total. 10 Group covered the south-west, 11 Group covered the south-east, 12 Group covered the Midlands whi...

Goths Goths, ancient Teutonic people, who in the 3rd to the 6th century AD were an important power in the Roman world. The Goths were the first Germanic peoples to become Christians. According to the 6th-century Gothic historian Jordanes, the Goths came from Sweden across the Baltic Sea to the basi...