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2 10, 2017

Who built Great Zimbabwe? Central African history

By |2019-08-22T23:46:16-07:00October 2nd, 2017|Africa|Comments Off on Who built Great Zimbabwe? Central African history

Central Africa in the Middle Ages: Great Zimbabwe Iron comes to Central Africa Besides South Africa, central Africa is the most isolated part of Africa. For many years, the people who [...]

15 09, 2017

Zoroastrianism – Iran – West Asian religion

By |2019-09-04T05:58:45-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Zoroastrianism – Iran – West Asian religion

An Iranian fire sacrifice Zoroaster/Zarathustra himself Around 1000 BC (probably), about the same time that people in India were writing the Rig Veda, a man named Zoroaster (also called Zarathustra) was a priest in a small [...]

15 09, 2017

Who is Tammuz? Mesopotamia – West Asian religion

By |2019-09-04T05:58:59-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Who is Tammuz? Mesopotamia – West Asian religion

The god Tammuz (probably) with grain growing from his shoulders A West Asian god Tammuz (or Dumuzi) was a West Asian god who personified growing food, like Persephone in Greece or Osiris in Egypt. [...]

11 09, 2017

Scythian art history – Central Asian art

By |2019-09-05T06:00:05-07:00September 11th, 2017|Central Asia|Comments Off on Scythian art history – Central Asian art

Scythian deer from about 700-500 B.C. It is made out of gold, and it's now in St. Petersburg. The Scythians were horse-riding nomads, who traveled around the western part of Central Asia taking care of [...]

23 08, 2017

Abraham and the Jews – Bible stories

By |2019-01-16T18:15:48-08:00August 23rd, 2017|Religion, West Asia|Comments Off on Abraham and the Jews – Bible stories

Abraham and Isaac (Egypt, 300s AD) The Jews leave Mesopotamia Shortly after the episode with the Tower of Babel, the Bible tells us that some of the Jews decided to leave Mesopotamia where the Sumerians were, [...]

23 08, 2017

The end of animal sacrifice – History of religion

By |2018-04-21T12:09:34-07:00August 23rd, 2017|Religion|Comments Off on The end of animal sacrifice – History of religion

Sacrificial procession (Pitsa, ca. 530 BC) People probably began to do animal sacrifice around the time they began farming and keeping domesticated animals, about 10,000 BC. They were certainly sacrificing animals to their gods all over Europe and Asia [...]

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