Aramaic alphabet replaces cuneiform
This inscription from Kandahar, in Afghanistan, has Greek writing at the top, translated into the Aramaic alphabet at the bottom. The Mauryan Indian king Ashoka put it up about 258 BC. [...]
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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 [...]
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09, 2017
Polybius and the rise of Rome – Roman history
Snow in Athens (thanks BBC!) Polybius (po-LIB-ee-us) was a rich Greek man, who was born in the Greek city of Athens, about 200 BC. When the Romans conquered his city-state, they demanded some hostages from that [...]
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History of the Jesuits – Catholicism
History of the Jesuits: Ignatius of Loyola, who started the Jesuits Ignatius of Loyola In the early 1500s AD, the Protestants were the new thing in Europe. Protestants were getting more and more popular. [...]
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08, 2017
European writing – books, poetry, Bibles
Reproduction of a press from Gutenberg's time The invention of the European printing press with moveable type in northern Europe in the late 1400s AD was no accident: publishers had set out to find [...]
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Roger Bacon – Medieval science
Roger Bacon's diagram of a human eye When did Roger Bacon live? Roger Bacon was born in England maybe about 1210 AD. It was late in the reign of King John. (That's the one [...]
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Anna Comnena’s Alexiad – Byzantine literature
Anna Comnena, author of the Alexiad Who was Anna Comnena? Anna Comnena was born a princess in 1083 AD. She was the oldest child of the Byzantine emperor Alexios. She was named [...]
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What is pi? Simple geometry – Math, circles, circumference, diameter
What is pi? The geometry of a circle What is pi? Pi is a number that is just a little bigger than 3.14. It is the number you get if you divide [...]
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07, 2017
Greek alphabet – writing in ancient Greece
Before the Greek alphabet: Linear B writing from Bronze Age Greece Before the alphabet - Linear B The first writing in Greece got started in the Late Bronze Age, and [...]
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Ancient Greek Architecture
Greek architecture: a Bronze Age palace in Knossos, Crete The first buildings in Greece The earliest buildings people built in Greece, in the New Stone Age, are small houses or [...]
