Infanticide and exposure in history
Infanticide? Pasiphae holds the baby Minotaur What is infanticide? From the Sumerians down to the time of Augustine, all over Europe and Asia, most people agreed that if you had a newborn baby [...]
Infanticide? Pasiphae holds the baby Minotaur What is infanticide? From the Sumerians down to the time of Augustine, all over Europe and Asia, most people agreed that if you had a newborn baby [...]
Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu fight a monster, on an Assyrian cylinder seal from the 600s BC Why were friends important? Friends were very important to people in the ancient [...]
History of the family: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, in a medieval ivory carving Were families the same as they are now? Families in the ancient world were very different from [...]
Ara Pacis Augustae - the Altar of Peace, in Rome You can see why ancient life expectancies were low for yourself: figure out the average age at death of the following group [...]
The Middle Passage: Slave fort in Ghana Millions of people enslaved Although other people, both white and Native American, have been held as slaves in North America, the experience of the African people [...]
A Pueblo family with a donkey in 1885 (Detroit Publishing Company) Since 1500 AD North American people's relationships to one another have seen big changes. In the 1500s, most kids lived in [...]
An Apache woman holding a baby in a cradleboard Most kids in North America lived with their mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters. Most families lived in one room [...]
Replica of Cherokee summer house Cherokee women lived in the same house for their whole life, with their mothers. When they got married, their husband moved into their house with them. When [...]
Madonna and child (Donatello) Medieval families The way people thought about each other in the Middle Ages, everyone was involved in complicated systems of relationships with each other. The first relationships [...]
Mohammed with his daughter Fatima (she's in the front) Mohammed's views on women Mohammed loved and admired the women in his life. He tried to give women more rights than [...]