Ancient Indian government
Indian government: Sanchi Stupa Northern Gateway (ca. 50 BC) Early Indian government Nobody knows what Indian government was like in the Harappan period. Probably they had a king over each city, the [...]
Indian government: Sanchi Stupa Northern Gateway (ca. 50 BC) Early Indian government Nobody knows what Indian government was like in the Harappan period. Probably they had a king over each city, the [...]
Who was Aristotle? An ancient Egyptian papyrus with a scrap of Aristotle's "Politics" Aristotle's family Aristotle's father was Nicomachus, a doctor who lived near Macedon, in the north of Greece. [...]
Thebes bell in the shape of a person, 700 BC (Louvre Museum, Paris) In Greek mythology, Thebes was where Oedipus lived with his mother-wife Jocasta. It was where Oedipus' daughter [...]
The ruins of Sparta and the valley around it Sparta in the Bronze Age Sparta was a town in southern Greece. It was already a town in the Late Bronze [...]
Government of ancient Greece: the Mask of Agamemnon, from Mycenae, Greece (1500 BC). Now in Athens What kind of government did Ancient Greece have? Ancient Greece had a lot of [...]
Corinth, Greece: Corinthian aryballos (perfume jar) in the shape of an owl (now in the Louvre, Paris) Corinth, Greece: A Greek city-state sells perfume and pottery In the 800s and [...]
Obol minted under Pisistratus with the head of Medusa At first people were happy with Solon's changes. They had their farms back, and they didn't owe any money, and they [...]
Archaic Athens: The Acropolis of Athens Athens in the Late Bronze Age Athens was a city-state in the center of Greece. People moved there because it has a good seaport [...]
Kritios Boy statue from the time of the tyranny in Athens In Greece and West Asia, mainly in what is now Turkey, there was a period of time around 650-400 [...]
Remains of the ziggurat at Warka, in Iraq, from about 3000 BC Probably the first states began in Sumer, around 3500 BC. There were also early states in Iran, India [...]