Civilization 31

Walk a day in a Roman’s sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world’s most powerful and bustling cities – one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? ……続きを見る

For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activ……続きを見る

It is strange to think of a very old world, when men knew nothing of the great salt sea that washed their shores, and nothing of the wonderful lands, that lay beyond. Each day the sun rose and set a……続きを見る

Today, you hear stories and see movies depicting the strength of the Persian Empire. You get to understand how and why Persian leaders made important decisions.studying ancient history will allow yo……続きを見る

Conozca la civilización que dominó el mediterráneo durante la Edad del Bronce, creando rutas comerciales desde oriente hasta la Península Ibérica. La apasionante expansión de las ciudades-estado Tir……続きを見る

Why does a 5th grader have to learn about the Sumerian Writing System and Literature? Surely you don’t use Sumerian writing these days. However, it is important to learn these things to acquire a be……続きを見る

Antium was situated on the sea-coast about thirty miles south of the Tiber. A bold promontory here projects into the sea, affording from its declivities the most extended and magnificent views on ev……続きを見る

THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its political and religious ideas by the Reformation, reconstructed its political system upon the principle of territorialism under th……続きを見る

Narraciones contemporáneas de la guerra por la Federación en el Cauca (1859-1863), es un libro que recoge diez textos elaborados por testigos de los acontecimientos, con diferentes procedimientos ex……続きを見る

Thisbook helps students to understand Graphic design world history. 続きを見る

Thisbook helps students to understand Graphic design world history. 続きを見る

Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he ……続きを見る

The way in which the demes and trittyes of Attika were grouped for the formation of the Kleisthenic tribes is an important historical problem. The ten coastal demes lying between Athens and Sounion ……続きを見る

Ce livre porte sur les armoiries de femmes des origines au XVIe siècle en France. À travers une vaste étude iconographique, nous sont révélés les sources, les usages et la fonction de l’héraldique f……続きを見る

Once the envy of the world for its quality and variety, Indian cotton today is mired in uncertainty and despair. Though India is the largest producer of cotton, its farmers are trapped in debt, and ……続きを見る

»Ein intellektueller Genuss.« DeutschlandRadio Kultur. Patchwork, Homo-Ehe, In-vitro-Fertilisation – was die einen als Untergang des Abendlandes bezeichnen, ist für andere eine Öffnung unserer Konze……続きを見る

The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as ……続きを見る

The Norsemen are a Germanic race, and belong, accordingly, to the Aryan family. Their next of kin are the Swedes and Danes. Their original home was Asia, and probably that part of Asia which the anc……続きを見る

They who have read the history of Mary Queen of Scots, will remember that it was the great end and aim of her life to unite the crowns of England and Scotland in her own family. Queen Elizabeth was ……続きを見る

Greek literature opens with a problem of the first magnitude. Two splendid Epics have been preserved which are ascribed to Homer, yet few would agree that Homer wrote them both. A fascinating look a……続きを見る

It was well for the development and civilization of the ancient world that the Hebrew fugitives from Egypt were not able to drive at once from the whole coast of Syria its old inhabitants; for the a……続きを見る

The history of Arabia naturally divides itself into three periods, the Ancient, the Military, and the Modern. The first carries us down to the age of Mohammed, and is called by the Arabs the Times o……続きを見る

Serving the Byzantine Emperor Justinian during the 6th century A. D., Belisarius defeated a superior Persian force that threatened to extinguish Constantinople; his small army next drove the Vandals……続きを見る

At a period earlier than the dawn of written history there lived somewhere among the great table-lands and plains of Central Asia a race known to us only by the uncertain name of Aryans. These Aryan……続きを見る

The Life of Anskar, written by his companion and successor Bishop Rimbert, which we have here translated, contains nearly all that is known of his life and work. A brief summary of what is told us b……続きを見る

The history of this world begins, according to the chronology of Archbishop Ussher, which is generally received as convenient rather than probable, in the year 4004 before Christ. In six days God cr……続きを見る

We may think and talk about civilization as one pattern or level of culture, one stage through which human life flows and ebbs. In that sense we may regard it abstractly and historically, as we rega……続きを見る

Two centuries ago when the kingdoms of Northern Europe were struggling for supremacy on the Baltic and control of the narrow portal to the sea, there appeared a young prince, the marvel of his age, ……続きを見る

Will the past become our future? The book provided humanity's side of the story concerning our origins at the hands of the Anunnaki, "those who from heaven to Earth came". Lord Enki, an Anunnaki god……続きを見る

Der Mensch hat seit seiner Entstehung und Entwicklung in Afrika einen langen Weg nach Mitteleuropa hinter sich: Er wanderte mehrmals von Afrika nach Eurasien, überlebte Wärmephasen und Kaltzeiten, b……続きを見る