What Was Ancient Rome? The Rise, Structure, and Fall of the Western World's Greatest Empire
A comprehensive guide to Ancient Rome: its legendary founding, the Republic and Senate, the Imperial era, social structure, economy, and the...
May 2024
What Was Ancient Persia?
Ancient Persia encompassed the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanid empires. Explore Cyrus the Great, Darius, Persepolis, Zoroastrianism, and Persian...
What Was Ancient Mesopotamia? The World's First Cities, Writing, and Empires
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, Philosophy, and the Foundations of Western Civilization
A thorough guide to Ancient Greece: the polis system, Athenian democracy, Socrates and Plato and Aristotle, Alexander the Great's conquests, Greek...
June 2022
What Is the History of Writing?
A comprehensive history of writing: from Blombos Cave proto-writing and Sumerian cuneiform to the Phoenician alphabet, Mayan glyph decipherment,...