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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION: Phoenician Empire
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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION. Thursday, April 25, 2013. Phoenicians had become a major trading empire after the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization around 1200 BC. Phoenician era was well under way by the start of the 1st millennium BC. They had rebuilt their major cities after destruction by the Sea Peoples. They newfound political independence helped the Phoenicians expand the trade that was already the foundation of their propriety. In the late 8th century BC, the Assyrians annexed most Phoenici...
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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION: Seleucid Empire (312 BC – 63 BC)
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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION. Sunday, December 15, 2013. Seleucid Empire (312 BC – 63 BC). The empire was created by Alexander the Great’s general Seleucus constituted the largest Hellenistic kingdom of the successor states. Seleucus began his career as a Macedonian noblemen and soldier under Alexander. After Alexander’s death he was one of the several Macedonian generals, known collectively as the Diadochi or Successors, who seized portions of the conqueror’s domain. Seleucus was succeeded by his son...
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History of City and Town: Founding of Detroit
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History of City and Town. Thursday, July 18, 2013. In the mid 14th century, long before Columbus’s first voyage, a party of Norseman sailed into Hudson and James Bay and made their way south into the Lake Superior country. The theory said that they saw the site of Detroit. In the late summer 1669, young Explorer named Adrien Jolliet paddled down the lakes. He travelled down the Detroit River and along Lake Erie’s north shore. He was the first white man who saw the Detroit area. The first large group of i...
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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION: Zhou dynasty (1045 - 256 BC)
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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION. Monday, February 9, 2015. Zhou dynasty (1045 - 256 BC). The first urban settlements in the People’s Republic of China emerged some 4000 years ago. Many historians considered Shang dynasty as the first true dynasty of China. Shang dynasty rules the Chinese civilization from about 1700 to 1027 BC before it was succeeded by the Zhou dynasty. The origins of Chinese culture, literature and philosophy developed during the Zhou Dynasty. In the last period of the Zhou, Confucius ...
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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION: The origin of Bithynia Kingdom
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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION. Thursday, July 23, 2015. The origin of Bithynia Kingdom. Bordering the Sea of Marmara, the straits of the Bosporus and the southern shores of the Black Sea and situated opposite Constantinople (Istanbul), Bithynia is today part of Turkey. Bithynia was anciently inhabited by various nations, differing in their manners, customs, and language, namely the Bebryces, the Caucones, the Dolliones, the Cimmerii, and the Mariandyni occupied the northeast part. Bithynia became a sep...
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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION: Hittite Empire
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ANCIENT EMPIRE AND CIVILIZATION. Monday, July 22, 2013. The Hittites first appeared in history in the 20th century BC, as inhabitants of the Anatolian plateau with city of Hattusa. Historians trace the origin of the Hittites to areas beyond the Black Sea. It began spread outward around 1600 BC. The Hittites were a composite people, fundamentally of Asian origin, but dominated by Indo-European aristocratic elements from the neighborhood of the Bosporus. By 1190 BC Hittite power was at an end. The Hitt...
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History of City and Town: History of Berlin as a Prussia capital city
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History of City and Town. Sunday, December 01, 2013. History of Berlin as a Prussia capital city. In 1244 Berlin was founded as a trading post. It was merged with Colln in 1307, into a single town for reason of power and security. Berlin comes under the rule of the Hohenzollern dynasty, the ruling house of Brandenburg in 1415. This was the heartland of the state that would later known as Prussia. In 1701, his son Freidrich III, crowned himself as Friedrich I, King in Prussia. He made Berlin a royal r...
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History of City and Town: History of San Francisco prior to 1900
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History of City and Town. Tuesday, September 24, 2013. History of San Francisco prior to 1900. Around 10,000 Native Americans are thought to have inhabited the peninsula immediately prior to the eighteenth-century Spanish. By the time European arrived, the Native Americans around the bay had been living in a sustainable, balanced relationship with the fish, trees and wildlife around them for thousands of years. Through the critical years of the 1848-52 gold rush when San Francisco’s population expl...
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History of City and Town: Kuwait City
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History of City and Town. Friday, August 14, 2015. City of Kuwait is the capital of a country that is also named Kuwait. The city lies on a bay of the Persian Gulf, in the Middle East. Its name comes from the Arabic work kut, meaning ‘fort’. In contrast to its current prominence, Kuwait was a remote part of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century, largely left to manage its own affairs. The country started producing oil in the middle of the 1900s. As a result Kuwait city grew much bigger and wealthier.
