Amazons of legend and very real Scythian tribes were mentioned in the same breath in ancient Greece....
Year: 2019
In mythology, the Amazons were daughters of Ares, the god of war. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction In...
The measles virus probably descended from the ancestors of the modern canine distemper and/or rinderpest viruses. By...
The city-state of Sparta, and much of the eastern Mediterranean, was also struck by the disease. Introduction...
Trump opened the way for Putin to surge in the Middle East, and he’s taking the opportunity....
He looted the city and burned it to the ground. Introduction In the year 330 BCE Alexander...
It was the capital from the reign of Darius I (the Great, r. 522-486 BCE) until its...
The movement toward oligarchy was led by a number of prominent and wealthy Athenians. Introduction The Athenian...
Athenian democracy was indeed a direct democracy, but not for everybody. By Georgios Mavropalias A sequence of...
Wedding trends are constantly changing. Remember the donut walls that were everywhere? They’ve since faded out –...
VAPING AND SMOKING AS HOBBIES NOWADAYS: ALL THE WHYs? Vaping and smoking are becoming more and more...
Writings from the time provide rich insights about their intentions. As the Founding Fathers were drafting the...
The winning supporters of ratification of the Constitution were called Federalists and the opponents were called Anti-Federalists....
By 1796 politics in every state was nearly monopolized by two parties, with party newspapers and caucuses...
Examining the type of anesthesia and techniques employed to prepare patients for invasive surgery in ancient Rome....
Treatments became more well known, and surgery became more sophisticated. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Roman medicine was...
Industrial development usually targets poor communities, but Ascension Parish is one of the richest, and most toxic,...
Air quality has improved for decades across the U.S., but Louisiana is backsliding. Our analysis found that...
Understanding history can deepen our sense of what it means to be human and how fragile our...
What caused the rise and then collapse 2,600 years ago of this vast empire centered on Mesopotamia?...
In the United States, 46.4 percent of adults will experience a mental illness at some point during their life....
Recalling a time when Pinochet along with President Nixon and Henry Kissinger forced upon Chile economic policies...
Works by artists like Velasco, Troya, Chartrand, and Oller offer an alternative to depictions by foreign artists....
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction For the Incas finely worked and highly decorative textiles came to symbolize both...
One of the reasons humans prefer an organized government is that we’ve had them for thousands of...
Banking was highly developed and subject to Roman Law, and money deposits were to be safeguarded and...
Persian governors and the satrapy system established the paradigm recognizable in the present day of a central...
The ‘two rivers’ of the name referred to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land...
Today’s fundamentalist Catholics find themselves embroiled in what they consider a war for the soul of their...
The musical changes that took place in the Counter Reformation were changes that set the precedent for...