Where's Bulgaria? Bulgarian history - a map showing where Bulgaria is Bulgaria is at the northern edge of the Aegean Sea, between modern Greece and Turkey. This land was part of the Roman Empire. The Romans called this area Thrace, and the people who lived there were Thracians. In the 300s AD, they [...]
Primate evolution: The earliest primates probably looked something like this little marmoset monkey. When did the first primates evolve? The first primates evolved out of earlier mammals around 56 million years ago, in the Tertiary period. (Or possibly as early as 85 million years ago, even before the dinosaurs died.) Why did primates [...]
Mapuche fight off Spanish invaders In the 1530s AD, the Mapuche people in Chile had recently fought off an Inca invasion and were fiercely determined to stay independent. And the Mapuche were good at fighting! So when the first European colonizers came to Chile, the Mapuche fought them off, too. Mapuche people quickly got Spanish [...]
Ancient Egyptian religious rituals: a scarab amulet from ancient Egypt Good-luck charms People in ancient Egypt worshipped the gods in many different ways. There were normal, everyday, little things. And there were big ceremonies involving thousands of people. Many people, for example, wore a little amulet - a bead on a string around [...]
History of Paraguay: Guarani people performing a dance in the 1800s The Guarani in the 1500s AD In 1500 AD, the Guarani were living and farming in what is now the country of Paraguay. Paraguay is in the center of South America, south of Brazil and east of Chile. The Guarani regularly fought battles [...]
The Old Gumbie Cat (1939) I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots. All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat; She sits and sits and sits and sits—and that's what makes [...]
Music links Early bone flutes, about 60,000 BC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHy9FOblt7Y Rock gong, at least 7000 BC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kr1D5-GW44 African drumming from about 3000 BC or earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0MiMs1Hp-o Playing a shofar – a ram’s horn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKQrBURDtQE Greek aulos about 700 BC. These have reeds like a modern clarinet. They’re [...]
21 history cartoons for the enlightened (and some other cartoons too) Well, we thought they were funny. All original history cartoons and political cartoons, mostly with a leftist, feminist, anti-racist slant (like the rest of the articles on this site). They're all copyrighted to Quatr.us Study Guides. Feel free to repost any of these cartoons, [...]
Khosrau II King Khosrau II, of the Sassanian Empire, on a gold coin (600s AD) Khosrau II was only twenty years old when he became king in 590 AD. Probably the powerful Sassanian families - particularly his mother's brothers - thought he would be easier to push around than his father had been. [...]
A later illustration from the Shahnameh of the execution of the prophet Mazdak The Sassanians in decline In 500 AD, in the early Middle Ages, the Sassanian empire in Iraq and Iran was falling apart, just like the Roman Empire further west. King Kavadh had almost no power. Province after province was declaring independence. [...]
