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15 09, 2017

West Asian people – families, schools, slavery

By |2019-09-04T07:31:22-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on West Asian people – families, schools, slavery

West Asian people: Ur-Nanshe, the king's chief musician in Mari, 2400s BC Oppression of women What we notice most about the way people lived in West Asia is the widespread [...]

10 09, 2017

World history timeline: from Jesus to 400 AD

By |2017-10-14T14:56:41-07:00September 10th, 2017|History, Romans, When|Comments Off on World history timeline: from Jesus to 400 AD

Roman amphitheater (El Jem, Tunisia) The great empires formed during the last years before Christ continued peacefully through much of this period. In India, the Mauryan Empire collapsed. There was a period of [...]

4 09, 2017

Roman sacrifice – animals and incense – Roman religion

By |2018-04-09T10:31:19-07:00September 4th, 2017|Religion, Romans|Comments Off on Roman sacrifice – animals and incense – Roman religion

Sacrificing a cow, a sheep, and a pig in the Late Republic Probably around the time people began farming their food and raising tame animals for their meat, which in Italy was [...]

23 08, 2017

What is the Trinity? Christianity – Religion

By |2018-04-09T23:07:28-07:00August 23rd, 2017|Religion, Romans|Comments Off on What is the Trinity? Christianity – Religion

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (Perugino, about 1482 in Rome) Christian people all believed that there was one God. But many people thought God existed in three forms: God the Father, Jesus the [...]

21 08, 2017

History of Easter – Christian holidays

By |2019-04-05T06:43:53-07:00August 21st, 2017|Religion, West Asia|Comments Off on History of Easter – Christian holidays

Wheat and barley on the Warka Vase (Sumeria, ca. 3200-3000 BC) Why celebrate spring? When people moved out of Africa further north to West Asia and then to Europe, about 60,000 BC, they began to [...]

21 08, 2017

What is Christian communion? History of religion

By |2019-04-21T08:03:09-07:00August 21st, 2017|Religion, Romans|Comments Off on What is Christian communion? History of religion

Maybe our earliest image of the Last Supper - from the Catacombs of Domitilla, 100s AD The Last Supper At the Last Supper, Jesus gave his disciples bread and wine. What's the Last Supper? [...]

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