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Burials in the Mausoleum of Augustus Marcus Claudius Marcellus42-23 B.C.son of Augustus' sister OctaviaMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa63-12 B.C.husband of Augustus' daughter JuliaOctavia>63-11sister of AugustusDrusus Maior38-9son of Livia, stepson of AugustusLucius Iulius Caesar17 B.C.-2 A.D.grandson of...

Crassus by Plutarch Marcus Crassus, whose father had borne the office of a censor, andreceived the honor of a triumph, was educated in a little housetogether with his two brothers, who both married in their parents'lifetime; they kept but one table amongst them; all which,perhaps, was not the le ...

The State The Earliest Forms Of Government Author: Wilson, Woodrow Part II. 18. Of the theories of the origination of government in individual lawgiving or in divine dictate, it is sufficient to say that the one exaggerates the part played by human choice, and the other the part played by man's im...

The Origins Of Civilizations The Agrarian Revolution And The Birth Of Civilization Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Agriculture And The Origins Of Civilization: The Neolithic RevolutionThere was nothing natural or inevitable about the development of agriculture. Because cultivation of plant...

woman suffrage Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and Republican Rome, as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century. When the franchise was widened, as it was in the United Kingdom in 1832, women continued to be denied all voting rights. ...

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi The Rise And Triumph Of Christianity The Rise And Triumph Of Christianity Through the long centuries that witnessed the decline of the Roman Empire and the invasions of the Germans, an increasingly powerful force became evident in the Mediterranea...

Women In Patriarchal Societies The Origins Of Civilizations Date: 1992 Most agricultural civilizations downgraded the status and potential of women, at least according to modern Western standards and to the implicit standards of hunting-and-gathering societies. Agricultural civilizations were cha...

A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The Sources Of Vitality In The Postclassical West Why did western Europe begin to demonstrate new vigor around A.D. 1000 - forming new schools and a more elaborate culture; expanding trade and towns, while loosening the most res...

Statutes of Willliam The Conqueror (Stubbs' "Charters," p. 83-85.) Here is shown what William the king of the English, together With his princes, has established since the Conquest of England. 1. Firstly that, above all things, he wishes one God to lie venerated throughout his whole kingdom, one fai...

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...

The Hittites A history of the Hittites including their cities, kings, art and contributions to civilization Hittite Gods B = Babylonian ALALUS: Father of Anus. Anus removed him from the throne. ANUS: Sky God. Removed his father Alalus from the throne, and was, himself, removed by his son Kumarbis....

The Dynamic Culture of the Middle Ages The European High Middle Ages, which lasted from about 1050 to 1300, evoke for many people romantic images of knights in shining armor, magnificent castles, and glorious cathedrals. And to many people, the word medieval (Latin medium aevum; "middle age") wrong...