The Library at Nineveh, a.k.a the Library of Ashurbanipal, is the oldest surviving royal library. It was found in the ancient city Nineveh, which is surrounded by Mogul, Iraq. It was built sometime during Ashurbanipal’s reign, which was 668 to 630 BCE. Was Nineveh the first library? The world’s oldest…
The Corfu Incident was seen as a serious failure for the League. It showed that powerful nations could still bully a less powerful neighbor (Greece was a small, weak country with no powerful friends on the Council). In 1946 the League dissolved itself, and its services and real estate (notably…
“He’d be in my corner and rooting for me the entire time. That’s just the way he was.” “Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story” (9 p.m., Lifetime). Based on a true story, this drama focuses on a New York schoolteacher who goes to South Korea to reclaim her 7-year-old…
Among the artifacts the Templars are said to have unearthed during their time on Temple Mount were the fabled Holy Grail, the Turin Shroud, the head of St. Did the Templars find the Holy Grail? Among the artifacts the Templars are said to have unearthed during their time on Temple…
Questions and answers about the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Puritans established a theocratic government with the franchise limited to church members. What made Massachusetts Bay Colony a theocracy? It encouraged religious tolerance and was open to colonists of differing beliefs. It did not encourage religious tolerance, but it did not…
One of the great successes of the early American space program, the Mariner 4 mission journeyed to Mars — making its closest approach on July 15, 1965 — and took the first photos of another planet from space. What did Mariner 4 accomplish? Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to…
Although the Maji Maji Uprising was ultimately unsuccessful, it forced Kaiser Wilhelm’s government in Berlin to institute reforms in their African colonies as they realized the potential cost of their brutality. The Maji Maji Rebellion failed because of the Tanganyikan belief in a magical water and their limited weaponry. The…
The Mayflower Compact can be described as an example of direct democracy in that it was composed and signed by the passengers of the Mayflower without… See full answer below. What type of democracy is the Mayflower Compact? The agreement set forth principles of a self-governed body not completely separate…
Because the populace eventually forced the council to allow towns to send deputies, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was technically the first representative democracy (excluding all people who were not white, male, property owners, and members of the churches approved by the Council). IN THE 1630S, ENGLISH PURITANS IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY…
Movies inspired by Akira include The Matrix, Chronicle, and Looper – but more than just films take notes from this incredibly powerful feat of both animation and storytelling. What was The Matrix inspired by? Neuromancer (1984) The biggest and perhaps most famous influence on The Matrix is William Gibson’s genre-transforming…