Athens was the main historical center of the region called Attica, located southeast of Continental Greece. It is a rocky, triangular-shaped peninsula that penetrates the Aegean Sea. Despite being a mountainous region, it has three important plains. Eleusis, Athens and Marathon . The port of Athens
Sparta , was located in the upper valley of the Eurotas river, in the region of Laconia , south of the Peloponnese peninsula. This city was characterized by its mountainous soil, with winding valleys, separated by buttresses, that reach the shores of the sea. Its territory is crossed by two mountai
The Indian Culture was located in the central peninsula of South Asia and has a pre-eminent place in the history of human culture for its wonderful spiritual creations and for its contributions to universal culture and art. Extensive and varied climates, it is still part of a great cultural triangl
The Persian Empire It was formed in the union of the Medes and Persians, they developed on the plateau of what is now Iran, around 1500 BC. They spread throughout the Middle East. Dario I was its main promoter at an economic and territorial level, although its territorial expansion began with the re
In the battle of Salamis ,the Greeks inflicted a crushing naval defeat on the invaders and preserved the flower of Western culture By land and sea, the great Persian king Xerxes mobilized with enormous forces against the Greek city-states, mainly Athens and Sparta. At Thermopylae, a mere 300 Spartan
It is called First Medical War to the first invasion of the Persians. In the year 493 B.C. While the Persian fleet and navy were massing for a great expedition against the Greek world, Themistocles appeared on the Athenian political scene. Themistocles began the construction of the fortifications of
Its called Second Medical War The second Persian invasion of Ancient Greece. The invasion was led by Xerxes I, as revenge and retaliation for the defeats of the First Persian War. They lasted two years, from 480 B.C. until 479 BC Background of the Second Persian War The Persian Empire in Persia. on
The Assyrian Empire was one of the major nations in Mesopotamian history. If the maximum splendor of the Assyrian State corresponds to the first half of the 1st millennium BC (Neo-Assyrian Empire), its origins date back to the end of the third millennium BC. The original geographic core of the Assy
Prehistory It is the part of History that studies the life of primitive man, from his appearance on Earth, to the invention of writing. It covers the longest period of human development, during which the first advances were made, such as the appearance of language and the domestication of animals an
Socially, the human organization evolved from the simplest to the most complex. In ancient times, human groups adopted various forms of human organization with their own characteristics: The Hordes This type of human organization was formed by human groups instinctively united by common needs; for
Human migrations they were given by the search for food and new territories in which they would allow them to survive. Until recently before the Holocene (10 thousand years ago), the human race had suffered insignificant changes in its long pilgrimage of almost a million years and the number of inha
Currently numerous fossils of the first men on Earth have been found and of which many studies have been carried out. According to the theory of evolutionism, man comes from lower zoological species. To reach his current state, he has undergone many transformations, both physical , to stop walking w
The Neolithic is the last stage of Prehistory, between 9000 and 6000 BC, when human beings went from simply collecting the products of nature, to modifying it to artificially produce new types of resources. At that time, human groups, in different places and times and without any relation to each ot
The fossilized remains of different individuals found in 1997 near the town of Herto, in Ethiopia, testify that, about 160,000 years ago, human beings very similar to us already existed in Africa. According to the data handled by scientists, Homo sapiens , the subspecies to which we all belong, woul
Paleolithic art could be in a stage prior to the Upper Paleolithic, the oldest artistic manifestations that are preserved are those made by man about 35,000 years ago and that are clearly linked to the hunter-gatherer way of life . Art traveled with humans in their diaspora across the planet and th
Contrary to what has been maintained for decades, the latest advances in the studies of the Paleolithic in America and the use of more modern dating methods yield increasingly older dates, until they gradually match those of Europe. In America, the Paleolithic period corresponds to the stage of cult
Although it was named after a change in the way of working stone, the Neolithic is a complex phenomenon that marks the end of predation as a way of life and the beginning of agriculture and livestock. About 12,000 years ago, the way of life of human beings who inhabited certain geographical areas b
Jericho, in present-day Israel, is thought to have been one of the worlds first cities and its history dates back to approximately 10,000 years BC. It appears in history for the first time in the Bible, where we see its walls fall at the sound of the trumpets of Joshuas army, an event dated around 1
Çatal Hüyük is a very old city . It was built by Neolithic people in southern Anatolia (present-day Turkey) about 8,000 years ago and it was kept there for more than 800 years, approximately between the years 6250 and 5400 BC. Excavations, begun in the 1960s, have shown that much of the city is sti
We know as Cyclades a large group of more than 200 Greek islands that are in the Aegean Sea. They get this name from the Greek word kyklos, which means circle , because the Greeks thought they formed a circle around the central island of Delos. Delos and the other Cyclades were first inhabited seve
The figure of the merchant in the Middle Ages is one of the most important, especially in the period after the Commercial Renaissance. By Me. Cláudio FernandesIn the context of the Low Middle Ages, one of the outstanding events was the Commercial Renaissance in Europe, which took place between th
In the Russian land, for centuries, there were peoples who produced excellent light horsemen. The most famous were the Cossacks. They followed various Asian tribes, such as the Tatars or the Kalmuks. The Cossacks gradually joined the Russian, tsarist armies, from the 16th century and remained loyal
The pagophagy It is a disease that causes the sufferer to eat only ice, snow and frozen drinks. Although it is not very clear what causes it, there are actually multiple possible causes, it is considered one of the variants of Pica, an eating disorder that consists of the irresistible desire to eat
An inseparable element of the silhouette of the US soldier of the Second World War, the USM3 combat knife (USM3 Trench Knife) was originally created to arm elite troops (paratroopers, rangers, etc.). In the field, it was actually distributed to combat troops that did not have bayonets. The first ne