What Was Ancient Rome? Rise, Structure, and Fall of the Empire
A comprehensive guide to Ancient Rome: its legendary founding, the Republic and Senate, the Imperial era, social structure, economy, and the...
May 2024
The Role of Ancient Persia in Global History
Ancient Persia encompassed the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanid empires. Explore Cyrus the Great, Darius, Persepolis, Zoroastrianism, and Persian...
The Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia and Its Innovations
A comprehensive guide to ancient Mesopotamia: the Sumerians, cuneiform writing, Hammurabi's Code, the Assyrian and Babylonian empires, and how the...
What Was Ancient Greece? Democracy and Western Foundations
A thorough guide to Ancient Greece: the polis system, Athenian democracy, Socrates and Plato and Aristotle, Alexander the Great's conquests, Greek...
June 2022
The History of Writing from Prehistoric Times to Today
A comprehensive history of writing: from Blombos Cave proto-writing and Sumerian cuneiform to the Phoenician alphabet, Mayan glyph decipherment,...