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14 09, 2017

Who were the Parthians? Iran – West Asian history

By |2019-09-05T05:39:23-07:00September 14th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Who were the Parthians? Iran – West Asian history

Grasslands of Central Asia - the steppe that the Parthians came from Parthians invade Iran Around 300 BC, some new people invaded West Asia from the north. These people were [...]

11 09, 2017

West Asian architecture – Ancient Mesopotamian architecture

By |2019-09-05T06:00:48-07:00September 11th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on West Asian architecture – Ancient Mesopotamian architecture

Mesopotamian architecture: The Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon, built during the Neo-Babylonian period (600s BC). Now in Berlin. Mesopotamian architecture Builders in Mesopotamia always had a serious problem. There was not [...]

7 09, 2017

What is malaria? History of diseases and medicine

By |2019-11-24T11:28:37-08:00September 7th, 2017|Africa, Science|Comments Off on What is malaria? History of diseases and medicine

A baby with malaria (from World Health Organization) - Malaria history How do you get malaria? You catch malaria by being bitten by a mosquito that has malaria parasites living inside it. [...]

18 07, 2017

Who was Eratosthenes? Astronomy and math

By |2019-05-30T20:45:26-07:00July 18th, 2017|Africa, Egypt, Science|Comments Off on Who was Eratosthenes? Astronomy and math

Eratosthenes of Cyrene went to school here! A classroom at the University of Alexandria (al-Ahram 2004). Who was Eratosthenes of Cyrene? Eratosthenes of Cyrene was born about 276 BC. He was [...]

16 07, 2017

What is an astrolabe? Greek science

By |2019-02-04T09:56:46-08:00July 16th, 2017|Greeks, Science|Comments Off on What is an astrolabe? Greek science

An Islamic astrolabe (832 AD) Who invented the astrolabe? About 140 BC, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes invented the science of trigonometry. What's trigonometry?  Greek astronomy History of astronomy All our [...]

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