History of Chile – South America
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 [...]
Ancient Egyptian religious rituals
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 [...]
History of Paraguay – colonization and independence
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 [...]
T.S. Eliot – American poetry project
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 [...]
Early music videos
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 [...]
21 History Cartoons (with a political edge)
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 [...]
Khosrau II and the end of the Sassanian Empire
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 [...]
Who were the Mazdakites? Sassanian reformers
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 [...]
Sassanian kings Khosrau and Hormizd – the 500s AD
Khosrau becomes king A silver bowl showing the Sassanian king Khosrau I hunting deer; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the Sassanian ruler Kavadh died in [...]
Sassanian kings and queens in the 400s AD
Yazdegerd Yazdegerd I, the Sassanian king When the Sassanian king Bahram IV was killed in 399 AD, his brother Yazdegerd took control of the Sassanian empire. Yazdegerd maintained peace with the Roman [...]
