Cassander embarked on an ambitious plan to control the region and solidify his power in Macedonia. Cassander’s...
History
The late 19th century saw the creation of a modern industrial economy during the rise of robber...
During the Civil War Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1861 which included a tax on personal...
These wars were between supporters of the king’s right to absolute authority, and supporters of the rights...
Roger Bacon believed people should test their beliefs rather than accepting what they’re told. Introduction It seems...
In Britain rabies was certainly known in 1000 CE and probably much earlier. Introduction On the 17th...
From the 1880s through the 1960s, Chicagoans engaged in a passionate debate over how government should respond...
Families were deeply divided after the Civil War and Kentucky was the most violent state in the...
When the Norse went on raids to other countries, they carried enough provisions for the trip and...
Yggdrasil stands at the absolute center of the Norse cosmos. This article, Yggdrasil: The Sacred Ash Tree...
There is growing evidence that our closest extinct human relative wasn’t as dumb as scientists had long...
Eisenhower’s plan for controlling the flu epidemic at Camp Colt helped establish health care protocols later adopted...
The new imperialists set up the administration of the native areas for the benefit of the colonial...
The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil-service systems elsewhere. Introduction The...
Among the earliest inventions were the abacus, the “shadow clock,” and the first flying machines. Introduction The...
English writers found federalism attractive because it seemed a solution to the problems posed by Europe’s emerging...
The Bibliophile’s vision of the bookless future is in some ways prescient. This article, Octave Uzanne’s “The...
People have used drum telegraphy to communicate with each other from far away for centuries. Developed and...
Three hundred years is a long time to suffer a bad reputation. The sheer longevity of the...
Little is known about their lifestyle due to the numerous conflicts and combinations of cultures that occurred...
It was built in five constructional stages spanning a period from around 3000 to 1500 BCE. Stonehenge...
The early depictions of hell were meant to use fear as a moral guide to help others....
In 63 B.C.E. Pompey was invited to settle a dispute between two Maccabeans. Thus came the Romans....
A place for the performance of rituals of congregation. Abstract The discovery of the early bronze age...
The close of the 19th century also witnessed dramatic discoveries in the new science of bacteriology that...
A comparison of the concept of the “general will” in revolutionary France. Introduction The concept of the...
Reexamining Charlemagne through evidence from his own time, as a ruler of a recognizably European empire and...
Other Mesoamerican cultures also engaged in human sacrifice and built tzompantlis, but the Mexica brought it to...
Examining nine different civilizations that practiced ritual human sacrifice. Originally published by ESRI, republished with embed permission...
This was intended to be “read” by intarsia workers (artists who inlay sections of wood to decorate...