Ancient Civilizations
mobi |eng | 2010-11-17 | Author:Reden, Sitta von [Reden, Sitta von]
Banking Banks through their functions of both exchanging and testing coins and providing credit lubricated the flow of cash. Once again, most scholars have discussed ancient banks against the commercial ...
( Category:
Money & Monetary Policy
April 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-18 | Author:Michael Beer
(1) See Williams (2000), 306: ‘...Diasporan Jewry is of far greater relevance to the issues of culture, identity and power in the Roman empire [than the Jews of Judea]’. (2) ...
( Category:
History
April 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Michael D. Coe
112 Plan of central Uxmal, by far the largest Puuc site. 113 The Nunnery Quadrangle at Uxmal, looking northeast. A causeway, or sakbih, 11.25 miles (18 km) long runs southeast ...
( Category:
Native American Studies
April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Steven Mithen
24 Engraved bone plaque from Grotte du Taï, Drôme, France. Length, 8.8 cm. It is likely that all types of artifacts, including those that might appear to be mundane tools ...
( Category:
Cognitive
April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Mary Beard
In the fourteenth century Dante cast the Roman poet Virgil as his guide in his poem Inferno (or Hell—part of his Divine Comedy). In this painting, Dante and Virgil in ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Max Weber [Weber, Max]
We now come to the problem of whether there was in the classical period a ‘capitalist invasion’ of the countryside in Attica and in other Greek states outside of Sparta ...
( Category:
Economic History
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Peter G. Tsouras
Ahuítzotl name hieroglyph. In effect, Tlacaélel was promising to act as regent. With that reassurance, the lords of Tenochtitlan followed by great crowds of the people went to the calmecac ...
( Category:
Mexico
April 5,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-04-02 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy
THE MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN, 48 BC The pretence on both sides of hoping for a negotiated settlement had prevented either leader from overtly massing troops. In previous months Pompey had blithely ...
( Category:
Rome
April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-26 | Author:Anthony Esolen [Esolen, Anthony]
Witches were a real preoccupation of the Middle Ages, right? Not really. As I’ve said, probably more people have been shot in American shopping malls and high schools than were ...
( Category:
Conservatism & Liberalism
April 1,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Halperin, David M M [Halperin, David M M]
[In the case of friendships based on pleasure and utility,] the friendships are most enduring when they [the two friends] get the same thing—e.g. pleasure— from each other, and, moreover, ...
( Category:
LGBT
March 31,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Tom Bissell
This is the only time in the gospel tradition that the author turns to his audience and claims to be witness to the events recorded. It would seem that this ...
( Category:
Christianity
March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Stephan Weaver [Weaver, Stephan]
Temple of Zeus (1999) The master of marble and stone, Myron, structured the Discus Thrower. Hippocrates, ‘the Father of Medicine,’ began his practice. Historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides rose ...
( Category:
Greece
March 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-03 | Author:Mike
Mr. Powell was never one to get right to the point; he always wanted me to work for the meaning or lesson he wanted to teach me. He once said ...
( Category:
Europe
March 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Immanuel Velikovsky [Velikovsky, Immanuel]
God's Land and Rezenu1 The present chapter shows the conquest of Palestine by Thutmose III to have taken place, not in the Canaanite period, but in the days of the ...
( Category:
Egypt
March 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Lionel Casson [Lionel Casson]
Sometime in the second century A.D. a young fellow named Apion left his little village in Egypt to join the navy. He was promptly shipped to the great base at ...
( Category:
Rome
March 6,2016 )
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