Medicine

16 08, 2017

Challenges and disabilities in the ancient world

By |2019-05-13T08:57:23-07:00August 16th, 2017|Medieval, Romans, Science|Comments Off on Challenges and disabilities in the ancient world

(Bosch, the Ship of Fools) - medieval disabilities Were a lot of people disabled in the past? In the ancient and medieval worlds, many more people were physically and mentally [...]

10 08, 2017

Early Native American science

By |2020-01-11T07:38:48-08:00August 10th, 2017|Native American, Science|Comments Off on Early Native American science

Native American science: Sunflowers growing in a field Domesticating sunflowers Probably the greatest contribution of Native American people to science before 1500 AD was the domestication of several plants, especially sunflowers in eastern North America. These plants [...]

3 08, 2017

Anna Comnena’s Alexiad – Byzantine literature

By |2019-01-22T11:03:06-08:00August 3rd, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on 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 [...]

27 07, 2017

Maimonides – a Jewish doctor in medieval Cairo

By |2019-11-22T18:14:12-08:00July 27th, 2017|Islam, Science|Comments Off on Maimonides – a Jewish doctor in medieval Cairo

Saladin's castle in Cairo, where Maimonides worked Maimonides and health care In the 1100s AD, when Maimonides wrote his book about medicine, doctors didn't have very many medicines or medical treatments that worked. The Guide [...]

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