Chinese culture as a whole has been shaped by the influence of ancient intellectual leaders. Introduction Chinese...
Ancient
Ancient Chinese artists were not professionals but gentlemen amateurs (and a few ladies) who were also scholars....
India has often been overlooked, especially in the West, about the contributions of its rich history and...
He is traditionally viewed as the second of the so-called “Mad Emperors,” the first being Caligula. Introduction...
Cyrus was far different from other kings of his time in the ways he chose to rule....
Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states. Introduction The Constitution of the...
They wanted to create a utopian state different from the current Confucian form of government. By Ryann...
A dynasty was considered just and worthy to rule only as long as it upheld divine will,...
Censors were elected every four or five years by the comitia centuriata, the assembly of Rome with...
The census dates back to the Babylonians in 4000 BCE. The census is older than the Chinese,...
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The career of Pericles and of the extension of Athenian democracy that took shape under his direction....
Each of the two tombs was built in a dome-shape structure known as a tholos. A team...
By 600 CE, the Slavs had split linguistically into southern, western, and eastern branches. Introduction The East...
Their annihilation on the Raudian plain was not the last time they would clash arms with Rome....
Over the course of 700 years, the site drew many worshipers to its temple. Chavín de Huántar...
Darius thoroughly revised the Persian system of administration and also the legal code. Introduction Darius the Great...
Complex societies took the forms of larger agricultural villages, cities, city-states, and states, which shared many features....
Did you know the ancient Greeks measured the circumference of the earth, invented robots and the first...
Studying animal tooling can provide clues to the mysteries of human evolution. Human beings used to be...
It is often referenced as a Zoroastrian heresy because it departed significantly from central Zoroastrian beliefs. Introduction...
It was developed from an oral tradition founded by the prophet Zoroaster sometime between c. 1500-1000 BCE....
Zoroastrianism was adopted by the Achaemenid Empire, the Parthian Empire, and found its fullest expression under the...
Introduction Zoroaster (also known as Zarathustra) was an important religious figure in ancient Persia (present-day Iran and...
Ancient Persia had the same interest in what happens after death as any culture in the present...
The ancient Persian religious tradition was passed down orally, and the only written texts relating to it...
Its name is derived from the Persians who settled in the area in the 7th century BCE....
Developments here had a decisive impact on the progress of human history. Introduction Iran, officially the Islamic...
Jerusalem has been an urban center for approximately 5,000 years. Introduction Jerusalem is the capital of the...
The beginning of Ptolemaic influence in Nubia began when Ptolemy II led a campaign against the kingdom...
Researchers have extracted a complete ancient human genome from birch pitch, a 5,700-year-old type of ancient “chewing...