Alexandria, Egypt, became the cultural center of the Hellenistic world, where easterners and westerners met and exchanged ideas about science, art, philosophy, and religion. Although Hellenistic civilization provided a common cultural framework, it often shaped only the lives of the elites and city-dwellers. What city was the cultural center of…
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Some of the successes that were achieved throughout the American Indian Movement were for the protection of native nations guaranteed in treaties, sovereignty, the U.S. Constitution, and laws, as well as self- determination. Its goals eventually encompassed the entire spectrum of Indian demands—economic independence, revitalization of traditional culture, protection of…
Valkyrie is, in essence, a thriller more than it is a war movie, and it’s a damn good one at that. Charting the real-life events that saw a number of high-ranking Nazi officers attempt to overthrow Hitler, the movie stars Tom Cruise as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the…
Akbar was Muslim but took an active interest in the various religions of his realm, including Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity, in his efforts to consolidate the diverse empire and to promulgate religious tolerance. Was Akbar a Muslim or Hindu? Akbar was Muslim but took an active interest in the various…
In ancient Egypt, the flooding of the Nile was predictable enough for the Egyptians to plan their yearly crops around it. It flooded annually sometime from June to September, as a result of monsoons in Ethiopia. The famine resulted when there was inadequate or surplus flooding. In ancient Egypt, the…
The empire was dominated by the Turks but also included Arabs, Kurds, Greeks, Armenians and other ethnic minorities. Officially the Ottoman Empire was an Islamic Caliphate ruled by a Sultan, Mehmed V, although it also contained Christians, Jews and other religious minorities. What nationality was the Ottoman Empire? Ottoman Empire,…
About 2,300 years ago, the Persian Empire covered over two million square miles and held nearly half the world’s population. Although Alexander the Great may have disagreed, this was the world’s first great empire. Was the Persian Empire large? The Persian Empire was the largest Empire that had ever been…
Warwick appeared on Celebrity Apprentice in 2011, where she lasted four weeks on the show before asking Trump to fire her. “It got to the point where I felt this was not what I was supposed to be doing with my 50-year career,” she said. NeNe Leakes is opening up…
That boxer was Melankomas. Mel rose to fame in Greece (then part of the Roman Empire) back in the first century AD when it really didn’t take much to become famous. He was a defensive fighter who relied on superior conditioning to avoid his opponent the entire contest. Melankomas was…