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Fake Monks and False Envoys: To Live and Lie in the Khan’s Court
It may come as some surprise that a Mongol khan’s encampment was a pretty international place to be. When the Flemish Franciscan, William of Rubruck, arrived at Mongke Khan’s court ...
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The wars of the Diadochi
The successor Wars
The four Successor Wars centered on the aspirations of three individuals and their descendants: Antigonus Monophthalmus I (382 - 301 BC), Seleucus I Nicator (358 – 281 BC) and Ptolemy I Soter...
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Social Structure in Ancient Egypt
The society of ancient Egypt was strictly divided into a hierarchy with the king at the top and then his vizier, the members of his court, priests and scribes, regional governors (eventually called 'nomarchs')...
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Hesiod, sort of an Ancient Greek Bible
Much time and care is taken to bring the ancients to life; to imbue modern society with the idea that they were just like us in all their goodness and evil, their intoxication and sobriety, their love and lust...
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French Revolution - The Constitution of 1791
The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts...
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Ancient Greece -Thesmophoria, the feminine fertility festival
Thesmophoria, the feminine fertility festival, dedicated to the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone, was literally for women only. Citizen males of ancient Greece...
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THE PYRRHIC WAR
With the conclusion of the Samnite Wars, Rome had consolidated its position as master of central Italy. With its rising power in the Mediterranean, conflict with the Greek city-states (Magna Graecia) of southern Italy was inevitable...
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Education in ancient Egypt
Education in ancient Egypt was similar to modern education, both in style and in curriculum, and recent archaeological evidence verifies this. Images depict children in a classroom, seated at desks, with an instructor...
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Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers:
Bata served his elder brother Anubis like a son. Bata had prodigious strength and the power to understand animals. One day as they were plowing, Anubis sent Bata back to the house for more seed…
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