Although often engaged in conquest, the Sassanids also entered into peace treaties and engaged in widespread trade....
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The Achaemenid Empire was a period of artistic growth that left an extraordinary architectural legacy. Introduction Achaemenid...
Persepolis has a long and complex history, designed to be the central city of the ever expanding...
Iran has inherited numerous architectural traditions over the course of history. Introduction From the Islamic period the...
This period is characterized by major cultural and political changes. Historical Overview During the Early Dynastic period...
Like its American counterpart, the burgeoning British underground scene held comics in high esteem. By John Harris...
The history of transgender and gender nonconforming people in the United States is one of struggle, but...
How knowledge, belief, sex, and power were viewed in the medieval world. Knowledge The way medieval eyes...
A rough genealogy of the way in which the central narrative of Buddhism ended up in a...
States with more restrictions on reproductive health care have higher maternal and infant mortality rates. Abortion access...
This is probably the best expression of of Pizan’s views of contemporary medieval women. The Woman Question...
Women in ancient Egypt were the equals of men in every area except occupations. Introduction One of...
Advocates of a more socially conscious economic system must take steps to ensure that their vision takes...
During the war, the top “marginal rate” was 94%, but 94% of what? Recent history shows tax...
Marketers decided to focus on the ‘purity’ of factory food processing – a successful strategy that other...
The economic decline was marked by a severe drop in population. By Dr. Murray N. RothbardHistorian and...
Wealthy landowners enclosed (privatized) the commons for their own profits, impoverishing many villagers. By Jay Walljasper Medieval...
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Regional, inter-regional and international trade was a common feature of the Roman world....
Even citizens found their city confusing. A city – a free city – was where a man...
Chamberlain and Wilson had aimed to prevent war entirely; instead they made it almost inevitable. In 1941,...
With the stroke of a pen 75 years ago, two men changed the world and sealed the...
Establishing a nation in which the people were sovereign and the aristocracy had no place. The North...
The excised passage was not then without effect and ought not now to be without effect. In...
Journalists face daily oppression from an authoritarian regime. Turkey is notorious as a leading jailer of journalists...
They were part of the Armenian millet until the Tanzimat reforms in the nineteenth century equalized all...
The Byzantine Empire had an important cultural legacy, both on the Orthodox Church and on the revival...
The war ended in a stalemate with the border between North and South Korea near where it...
The young people of Africa’s urbanized populations are ushering in a modernization process founded on services and...
A brief introduction to famous African rulers and their impact on medieval and Renaissance European culture. By Dr....
They formed the king’s personal bodyguard and were also considered the shock troops of the infantry in...