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The first legal text is the Law of the Twelve Tables, dating from the mid-5th century BCE....
The establishment of petroleum as a tradable commodity and natural resource triggered a paradigm shift in the...
There have been three great world pandemics of bubonic plague recorded, in 541, 1347, and 1894 CE....
The notion of religious liberty and of freedom of conscience was not recognized. Introduction Inquisition, (capitalized I)...
The Papacy in the Late Middle Ages had a major secular role in addition to its spiritual...
Christianity began in first century C.E. Jerusalem as a Jewish sect, but quickly spread throughout the Roman...
The earliest surviving examples of Chinese painting are fragments of painting on silk, stone, and lacquer items....
The name “Byzantine Empire” is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries. Introduction...
Three types of historical writing flourished in the Middle Ages: chronicles, hagiography, and the rhetorical monograph. By...
Evora’s history dates back over five millennia. By Kim MartinsHistorian Introduction The sunbaked plain of the Alentejoregion...
From a semi-nomadic tribal society to an agrarian-based society with a vast network of trade and a...
From Clovis’s conquest of Gaul to Charlemagne’s coronation, the Frankish realm transformed post-Roman western Europe while repeatedly...
Human remains, the “Palestine Man”, found south of Lake Tiberias in the Zuttiyeh Cave, date back as...
Discussions of economics have existed since ancient times but it was not a separate discipline until the...
In the philosophy of science, empiricism refers to an emphasis on those aspects of scientific knowledge that...
In the western intellectual tradition, philosophical reflection on ethical codes began with the Greek Sophists of the...
The history of logic from the ancient world to modern times, tracing its role in philosophy, science,...
The surprising history behind the world’s most famous collection of folk tales. Two hundred years ago, two...
What the history of the First Folio tells us about our greatest playwright. Hidden away in a...
Introduction Even medievalists have a hard time determining the precise moment when the Middle Ages started and...
The Catholic Church didn’t finally officially recognize their own error until John Paul II in 1992. Introduction...
Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia all punish blasphemy harshly – even with death. Junaid Hafeez, a university...
First encountered in the 17th century in the form of bhang, an intoxicating edible which had been...
Ukraine has been occupied since the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) and the Sredny Stog culture from 4500 BCE....
In the Middle Ages, Constantinople was the richest European city and was known as the “Queen of...
The period was characterized by a fluidity of design accented by a sense of drama. Introduction The...
Introduction The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican culture, noted for having the only known fully developed written...
Fascism in Italy was strongly identified with the cult of Mussolini and with the idea, even with...
The causes of the Industrial Revolution were complex and remain a topic for debate, with some historians...