What is the origin of word city?

The word "city" comes from the Old French word "cité", which in turn comes from the Latin word "civitas". The Latin word "civitas" was used to refer to a town or city that was inhabited by Roman citizens. The word "city" has been used in English since the 13th century.

How has Aristotle influenced western culture?

What were mongols other than barbarians?

Rollo
ROLL (Rollo)(Died c. 930.) Norman leader, first duke and prince of Normandy (911-927). His life is not well known because we should probably only give credit relative to the abundant details given about him by a canon of Saint-Quentin, Dudon, in his History of the Dukes of Normandy. Of Danish origin
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels he was one of the great names of Nazism. He held the post of Minister of Propaganda and he was responsible for all the spread of the political ideology that manipulated the German population during the 1930s. He was also heavily involved in anti-Semitism, which resulted in the Holoca
Shāhnāmé, the longest verse epic ever written by a single author, which allowed the Persian language to be preserved
Almost all towns have a book that tells their story in the key of an epic. The Aeneid , commissioned by Augustus to Virgil to narrate a glorious origin of Rome, is perhaps the quintessential example, but there are others and we have seen some here, such as the Secret history of the Mongols . In Sp
Aetius, the man who led the defense of the Roman Empire against the barbarian peoples
We already talked in another article about the Gemitus britannorum , the Wail of the Britons, a dramatic plea for help made to Rome by the rulers south of Hadrians Wall in the mid-5th century AD. to face the raids of Picts, Scots, Saxons and Franks. According to the cleric Gildas, author of De excid