Incorporating the papyrus technology into a conference that seeks to discuss the history of Egyptians begins by understanding how the technology worked, including its significance to modern developments and hence the reason for including this [...]
This work is an analysis of Abdul's assignment on the importance of the River Nile to the Ancient Egyptians. This work analyses Abdul's task in terms of the satisfaction of the demands of literacy and [...]
The leading opinion on the matter suggests that the true reasons for the collapse of the state include both internal and external factors; brought together into a system, they have served to destroy the once [...]
As the family is rich, the floor mosaics should be an integral part of the villa demonstrating the wealth of the family.
One of the great ancient civilizations known to man is that of the Mayan people. As such, this calendar was the center of the life and culture of the Mayan people.
To understand whether Herodotus provides the reliable considerations about the aspects of the Scythians life and society, it is necessary to analyze the narrative of Herodotus with references to the discussion of the archaeological evidence [...]
The ruins of Tikal, the main Mayan city, in Guatemala shows the architecture and the scope of the ancient builders - even now it is difficult to create the city like this.
Hence, the myth concerning the emergence of the Olympic Games involves Zeus. The Olympic Games owed their integrity and significance to religion.
In essence, the Twelve Tables were a set of rules that were used to govern Roman citizens by the empire's rulers.
The information in the book is thoroughly researched and the author gives the reader an insight into one of the most misinterpreted period of the Roman Empire.E.A.
This was not a mere rhetoric considering that writers on the Roman agriculture also highlighted the decline in land productivity either due to the land being old or because of humans' failure to preserve the [...]
Agriculture was one of the very prominent activities that the Maya people engaged in.the ancient agricultural feature of the community still can be found in many available archaeological records; these records stretch from the old [...]
The elite were the rich people, and majority of the population that comprised of the common farmers, artisans, and merchants known as the plebeians occupied the low status.
This was after the evolution of the use of herbs as poisons that were used to kill people. Herbal knowledge in the region revolved around the army quite a bit and the soldiers gained from [...]
The sarcophagus of Ahiram is considered to be the mysterious discovery which tells much about the history of the city and the king who ruled it. To the long side of the sarcophagus there is [...]
Alexander the Great used the Roman Empire to spread Greek civilization to Europe and the rest of the world. The Greek Macedonian Empire that was established by Alexander the Great extended to many parts of [...]
The Julian calendar was an initiative of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar, designed to streamline the obsolete system. The Julian calendar took into account these observations, and founded the concept of a leap year.
The temple was meant to accommodate the new gigantic sculpture of the goddess by Pheidias and to announce to the world that Athens had beaten the attacking Persian troops under Xerxes and Darius as the [...]
For the longest time in the period from the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, the Caucasian theory of the origin of the ancient Egyptians dominated.
Now, Mesopotamia is understood mainly as a valley in the lower reaches of these rivers, and lands are added to it east of the Tigris and west of the Euphrates.
In the era of the Qin Dynasty, the social division was based on the criteria of wealth and usefulness to the state.
The Matsaba of Mereruka is a great example of the Old Kingdom tomb and its purpose of ensuring a prosperous afterlife for the buried one. The first mention of the king of the afterlife was [...]
The passages will be examined and evaluated better understand the social and cultural history of the period and learn more about the social order in Ancient Greece. It can be asserted that the issue of [...]
Nevertheless, technological developments in the ancient civilizations were compelled by some factors that either led to the formation of new technologies or improvements of the existent ones. A factor that led to the creation of [...]
The Ottoman Empire had the ground for boasting. It was an Islamic empire that was called “the largest and the most influential of the Muslim empires of the Modern period”.
With this insight into the fall of the Roman empire, we realize that there's still a cultural line between ancient Rome and the contemporary world.
The particularity of the Tomb of the Augurs is the fact that it is one of the first monuments in Tarquinia to have "figural decorations on all four walls of its main chamber".
The first and maybe the main point in this opposition of times and customs is the role of a ruler. There is a great contrast between the idealized picture of the young emperor and his [...]
In the picture of a gold necklace placed in the Field Museum it is visible to the naked eye that the work is so fine and marvelous that it is even hard to believe the [...]
Owing to this growing level of dissatisfaction by the Roman citizens, a consul system was incepted by the latter. His success was largely attributed to the system of the Republic.
This was due to the need to know the past in order to understand the present and be able to predict the future as an effort to satisfy human curiosity through knowledge The socioeconomic practices [...]
Bentley and Ziegler examine the world as a whole and focus on the development and formation of the world's major societies, 'traditions', and also interactions and connections that have always been established among societies, 'encounters'."Traditions [...]
One of the greatest legacies of Greek civilization is their contribution to the development of arts and sciences. Christianity and its pacifism are also said to have killed the militantism of the Romans.
The author was intended to show and describe in detail the ancient facts of state formation beginning with Aeneas and then Romulus and Remus and other dominant figures in the historical framework of ancient times.
The first characteristics of the nobility appeared to be described from the period of Roman Greece, when the Roman Empire won the battle of Corinth and made the capital Byzantium city.
The history of Mesopotamia traces back to the emergence of the urban centers in the Middle East in the 4th millennium.
Western countries have experienced such disasters in the past, and according to the mandate of heaven, this is a sign of unjust rule.
His reign was a time of considerable turmoil throughout the Mediterranean that saw the Trojan War, the fall of Mycenae and a great surge of displaced people from all over the region that was to [...]
It is the mid-tier period in the classification of ancient societies following the evolution of tools from stone to bronze and then the Iron Age.
The monument received the name Colosseum in the Middle Ages from the distorted Latin word "colosseum", while in Imperial Rome, it was called the Flavian amphitheater in honor of the imperial dynasty.
The passage is critical in the understanding of the Osiris myth since it depicts the position of women in the Egyptian traditional society.
To emphasize the cruelty of Sulla, Plutarch provides examples of Sulla's multiple murders and accuses him of slaughter against the city. The second act of Sulla that gave offense to the Romans and the Senate [...]
The death of Alexander the Great shook the empire, beginning the process of the division and undoing of his legacy as many of the conquered regions saw opportunities to relinquish the Hellenistic rule.
In a Roman society of the 1st century AD, the social position of a person was primarily defined in terms of social status, as opposed to merely being rich.
Therefore, the drought theory could be considered as the most reasonable for explaining the Mayan civilization's disappearance mystery. Two most reasonable hypotheses of Mayan civilization's disappearance were examined: the drought theory and the environmental theory.
The lack of technology has made it a difficult practical concept to accept, leading to the rise of various theories on the construction of the Pyramids at Giza.
An umbrella in ancient China was not only the item of sun protection, but it was also a symbol of a high rank and nobility of its owner.
The population bordering the Roman Empire included "the Irish and Picts of the British Isles, the highly civilized Persians on the Syrian Frontier, the Berbers of North Africa, Asiatic nomads like the Sarmatians, and many [...]
In addition, Egyptians believed that both animals and the human soul were inseparable from the rest of the body. The Egyptians felt that such practices were important in the well being of every individual in [...]
The Spartans were the key leaders of the Peloponnesians, and they fought the Athenians because of bitterness. According to Thucydides, this was the major cause of the war between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians.
This was just before they sailed to Troy for battle where Agamemnon's insults resulted to them being disciplined as the winds died so that they were unable to navigate, until Agamemnon made a sacrifice to [...]
In Mesopotamia, civilization sprung from the River-Valley and spread throughout the entire Middle East where as in Egypt, the origin and decline of civilization focused on the River Nile and the surrounding deserts.
With the help of such a deep analysis of the conflict, described in The Histories, and the events, which happened in real, the reader gets a wonderful opportunity to clear up the major elements of [...]
The Agricola and the Germania are the two educative works which describe the achievements of the Roman Empire from different perspectives: the Germania is based on the traditions which were set by the Roman government [...]
Camilla Townsend endeavors to establish the true foundation of the origin of the thought that the Spaniards were gods and to dispel the wrong belief by arguing that that the Indians regarded the Spaniards as [...]
The cultures of the people greatly influenced the works of art during the Roman Empire and this was is evident in their sculptures.
This article gives the historical perspective of the coming into existence of the Romans, the leadership of the Romans and the circumstances that gave way to the establishment of the Roman Republic.
The discovery of tools is recognized to be one of the most important events of human development, as it is a well-known fact that "The development of tools such as flint points, axes, weapons such [...]
The civilization of ancient Egypt happened at the same time Mesopotamian civilization was taking place in other areas in the nations of the Akkadians, Babylonians and the Sumerians. Indeed, religion in ancient Egypt led to [...]
Under the Greeks and Romans, slavery was pervasive and profoundly ingrained in the Mediterranean region's political, economic, and social structures. Slavery was a fundamental component of ancient Roman culture and significantly impacted the rise and [...]
The civilizations of the Americas and those of Asia shared many similarities and differences in their political structure and religious beliefs.
In Alison Futrell's The Roman Games: Historical Sources in Translation, the author explains the objectives of games in Ancient Rome and discusses the changes in the goals and attitude between the Republic and the Empire.
By opening the poem with the line, "Now I will teach you how to captivate and hold the woman of your choice," the defendant unambiguously undermined the moral foundations of a new Roman society. The [...]
The discussion should turn to the bottom of what Thucydides has to say about the nature of war and how one might learn from his writings.
The circumstances around the changing political situation and the tone of Pericles' speeches may indicate several essential factors, such as the tactical actions of the army and the position of a leader in society.
While the former discusses the dangers and consequences of tyranny, the latter chronicles the ambitious reforms of a Spartan king. The writer warns against the dangers of a single ruler having absolute power and the [...]
The operational practices of the empires helped shape the cultural and political footprint and the future of the Mediterranean and China.
The study of Stonehenge and the Great Wall as two of the most important archaeological sites is a crucial aspect to which this paper is devoted.
In 1814, he began his work on interpreting the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone as depicted in the documentary, 'Mystery of The Rosetta Stone: Documentary on Ancient Egypt and the Rosetta Stone.' During this process, [...]
All of these landmarks of civilization were shown to be unique to the region and not derivative of the Yellow River civilization.
Both Assyrians and Persians differ significantly in their approaches to invasions, with the former murdering their enemies and the latter valuing human lives and religion. The kings of Persia, in contrast, were renowned for their [...]
The Romans built some of the most impressive buildings in the world, including the Pantheon and the Colosseum. Thus, the Romans were ahead of their time, and their legacy continues to shape modern engineering and [...]
The Byzantine Empire, which emerged in the East, claimed to be the legitimate successor of the Roman Empire, and its rulers continued to use the title of 'Emperor.' The Byzantine Empire maintained much of the [...]
The current essay demonstrates the importance of interaction between civilized peoples and barbarians by explaining the outcomes of cultural exchange and potential reasons for conflict.
However, due to a lack of provisions, the Goths rose and drove the Romans out from the Greuthungi battlefield. Overexpansion was a primary factor in the decline of Rome and other great civilizations.
Any democracy which, at least formally, is based on the power of the majority, equality of citizens, protection of their rights and freedoms, a system of separation of powers, and electability of authorities implies a [...]
The Hebrews used a stunningly symmetrical image of Yahweh, the king in heaven, and David, the king on earth. Even when kings no longer have any relevance to modernity, the images of God as king [...]
The Pipiltin were referred to as the nobles in the Aztec society. Macehualtin were the vast majority of the commoners in the Mexica Empire.
The social ideals of the ancient Nile Valley cosmology and religion differ from those inherent in the cosmologies and theologies of Western civilization.
According to some sources, the reasons behind the inequality in wealth and power in ancient empires is not mere monopolies. In Rome alone, the capital of the empire, the population throughout the first and second [...]
The felling of forests could lead to the swamping of territories and later to the shift in the species composition of trees.
However, the king did not control all aspects of the kingdom: some branches were controlled by the elites, for example, the Chief of the Scribes.
The main topic of the article is the study of the characteristics of various ethnic groups and social organizations in the Ancient Egyptian civilization.
Some argue that the Ancient Egyptians must have been Black Africans, while others state that cannot be true, at least in terms of physical appearance, Combined with the peculiarity of Egyptian culture, from this emerges [...]
Among the sources of ancient Rome stand out the civil conflict between Catilina and Cicero; the depiction of everyday life and cultural values in the poems of Catullus; Caesar's work Gallic wars; Virgil's poem Aeneid.
The ORBIS website provides an opportunity to explore the Roman world and its road and river networks. As can be seen, the map of the Roman world reveals its interconnectedness, and people had various options [...]
The concept of a single Greek civilization arose during the time of the Romans, who called all the tribes in the west of the Balkan Peninsula Greeks; The Greeks themselves called their country Hellas and [...]
Successes in the military operations facilitated the development of the African province and fortified the influence of the Roman Empire's culture and religion.
Children with deformities were also considered a threat to the economy, and they would drain the family if the child were sick from the deformation.
In the end, despite the bewitching story at the junction of mysticism and reality, the nobleman is still depressed and afraid of the court. The words of the Serpent once again confirm that the island [...]
In ancient Greece, the body was the material means of constructing and transmitting social values; the body's visual representation exemplified the moral codes of the time.
The Romans rose from a backwater colony to being the dominant city on the Italian peninsula due to the superiority of the political institutions of this state in comparison to others.
To be more particular, Egyptians used hieroglyphics as captions for their art to elaborate on the meaning and the idea of the piece; hence, they "complete and elaborate on the scenes".
And all of this by the time he died at the age of 32, raising the question of what Alexander could have accomplished if he had lived longer.
The fact that according to most of the myths, Rome started from fratricide seems to be quite relevant as the city's history is famously filled with civil conflicts and wars.
Furthermore, the Romans were influenced by the Etruscans, a neighboring tribe to the northwest of Rome, who were allied with and then conquering the newly formed city-state.
From the lecture, I discovered that the word democracy partly originates from the word demes which means the small division of the bigger sections that Athens was divided into during the ancient time.
The Nova documentary film entitled "Riddles of the Sphinx" discusses the building of the Great Sphinx, the largest statue in Egypt.
The initial religion of ancient Egypt was to realize the Gods in the form of birds and beasts. With the beginning of agriculture, the Egyptians became more dependent on nature, so they started to revere [...]
The tomb of Mereruka at Saqqara is one of the most famous monuments, which is the tomb of the non-royal person.
One notable difference between Caesar's and Plutarch's descriptions of the siege of Alesia is how the authors list the numbers of the Gauls.
One of the essential functions of the Pharaoh was the connection with the cosmos. The Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom were the heydays of the divine status of kings.
The icon is defined as a representation of a sacred image or other piece of religious art work which serves an object of devotion.
Whilst the Colosseum and the Pantheon symbolized the greatness and power of The Roman Empire, the roadways outlined how tremendous and resourceful it was.
2 The dual attitude towards magic in Ancient Greece is deeply rooted in those people's focus on knowledge and the use of the scientific method that was born during that period.
The Battle of Talas in 751 between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang Dynasty for control of Central Asia was the turning point initiating mass conversion into Islam in the region.
Thus, it was important for the people of Ancient Greece, Rome, and China to have faith and praise the gods they chose.
The Celts have been reported to have been diverse. Their empire has been reported to have spanned the European continent.
The continuing growth of confederations and federations throughout African history was interrupted by the invasion of the West. Ancient Egypt in the pharaonic times is immensely enlightening in the reconstruction of the African past.
Through his work on arithmetic, Arabic numerals were introduced to the west which was based on the numeral system of the Hindus and Arabic.
The essay summarizes the several answers to the question above starting from the origins said to be classical Greece and Rome to middle ages all the way to world wars and the Gulf wars.
The given battle was a turning point in Greek history because the Roman Republic became the rulers of the Greek lands.
Another element that can be taken into focus as regards the distinguishing peculiarities of the Roman Domus is the use of arches and vaults for the construction of spacious buildings.
All of the Athenians were involved in the process of selecting the candidates for the positions of the Archons the advisors to the ruler of the city.
That was the home to the earliest culture of the black people in Africa. It is claimed in the article that the first rulers of Egypt were black.
Caral, excavated by the archeologist Ruth Shady in the Peruvian desert is believed to be the candidate to the mother city as far as it is a 5,000 years old city of pyramids. It was [...]
In the Roman law, the man is recognized as the head of the household owning the entire property under the family's name.
Due to the fact that the river overrode the Ethiopian lowland, the inclined gradient of the River Nile sent the water torrent which overflowed the river banks resulting in over flooding of the river.
They include The Roman empire, the Persian empire, Indian empire and the Parthian empire, there are also a lot of other empires that were also formed. The British empire was also able to withstand a [...]
This led to the death of many young people in the nation which resulted in one of the failures for them to reach the standards of the Romans of establishing an empire.