Search results for "History of"
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Van De Mieroop, Marc

Debate 8.1 Who were the habiru? When in the 1880s the Amarna letters first became known, scholars soon noticed the many references to a people in the Syro-Palestinian area called ...
( Category: Bible Study May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Mitchell, Stephen [Mitchell, Stephen]

The first book of the Justinianic Code was concerned with religious legislation, leaving no doubt that the emperor's legislative priorities were significantly different from those of his predecessors. Active measures ...
( Category: History May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Parker, Victor [Parker, Victor]

The account in Diodorus closely follows that of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. The few minor differences are easily explained: Diodorus was not using the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia directly, but was summarizing the ...
( Category: History May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-07 | Author:Hall, Jonathan M. [Hall, Jonathan M.]

Document 7.3 Another fragment of Tyrtaeus' exhortatory martial poetry, this time preserved in the fifth-century ce anthology of Stobaeus. Take heart, for you are the progeny of unconquered Heracles – ...
( Category: History & Theory May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Price, Simon & Peter Thonemann [Price, Simon]

Map 24. Cosa and its territory. The centuriation is shown by the rectilinear grid north-east of the town. An important linguistic consequence of the creation of colonies was the spread ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-17 | Author:Crawford, Michael [Crawford, Michael]

* * * 1. The arrangements made by C. Gracchus for the upkeep of side roads perhaps involves, as do others of his measures, borrowing from Greek experience. 2. It ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Mommsen, Theodor [Mommsen, Theodor]

The situation which Caesar found upon his arrival in Gaul in the spring of 58 B.C. was a difficult one. The Celtic culture of Gaul, prevented by the Romans from ...
( Category: Philosophy May 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-03-30 | Author:Thucydides

656 The four major Panhellenic athletic festivals were the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian, and an extension was needed because the Pythian took place in late summer while the truce ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Murray, Oswyn [Murray, Oswyn]

( Category: History May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Osman, Ahmed [Osman, Ahmed]

14 THE TOMB OF AKHENATEN ALTHOUGH not a shred of evidence has been found to confirm the date of Akhenaten’s death, Egyptologists have assumed that it must have taken place ...
( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-06 | Author:Weaver, Stephan [Weaver, Stephan]

Portrait of Henry VIII of England, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1537) He was fifteen years of age when he acceded to power. So during his first years in rule ...
( Category: History May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Douglas Brinkley [Brinkley, Douglas]

Roosevelt’s Reforms As defined by historians, the Progressive era embraced three U.S. presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, all of whom would oppose one another for the ...
( Category: History May 24,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jo Walton

OTHER CATEGORIES BEST NOVELLA Winner: Enemy Mine, by Barry B. Longyear (Asimov’s, September 1979) Nominees: The Battle of the Abaco Reefs, by Hilbert Schenck (F&SF, June 1979) Ker-Plop, by Ted ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Leslie Howsam (ed)

Technological revolution In the eighteenth century, technological progress had been a limited force in the book trades, restricted to typefounding and design, and to a lesser extent to paper manufacture ...
( Category: other May 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-30 | Author:Nick Mccamley

There can be little doubt that chemical weapons research in Germany throughout the mid-1930s was exclusively defensive in nature, such research being actively encouraged by the Reichswehr, particularly after the ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation May 15,2019 )