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14 09, 2017

Who were the Lydians? West Asian history

By |2019-11-20T05:41:34-08:00September 14th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Who were the Lydians? West Asian history

A Lydian gold coin King Gyges About 687 BC, according to the Greek historian Herodotus, King Gyges started the new country of Lydia (LID-ee-ah), in modern Turkey where the Hittites had ruled before the [...]

13 09, 2017

Neo-Babylonians – Mesopotamia – West Asian history

By |2019-09-05T05:40:24-07:00September 13th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Neo-Babylonians – Mesopotamia – West Asian history

The Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon, built during the Neo-Babylonian period (600s BC). Now in Berlin. As the Assyrians got weaker, pieces of their empire began to break off. People saw their [...]

24 08, 2017

Persia and the Jews – West Asian history

By |2019-10-16T08:35:34-07:00August 24th, 2017|History, Religion, West Asia|Comments Off on Persia and the Jews – West Asian history

Persia and the Jews: The remains of the Second Temple in Jerusalem The Persians let the Jews go home In 536 BC, Cyrus the Great, the king of the Persians, conquered the Babylonian [...]

18 07, 2017

Who was Anaximander? Infinity and Greek science

By |2019-01-26T12:31:48-08:00July 18th, 2017|Greeks, Science|Comments Off on Who was Anaximander? Infinity and Greek science

Theater of Miletus, where Anaximander the mathematician lived Where was Anaximander from? Anaximander the mathematician was born about 610 BC in the Greek city of Miletus, in what is now Turkey. So [...]

11 07, 2017

Who was Xenophon? What’s the Anabasis?

By |2018-04-23T09:12:24-07:00July 11th, 2017|Greeks, History, Literature|Comments Off on Who was Xenophon? What’s the Anabasis?

A later portrait of Xenophon (now in the Prado museum in Madrid) Xenophon, like Thucydides, was an Athenian from a rich family who lived during the Peloponnesian War, in the [...]

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