Ancient Egypt has been one of the most impressive cultures, in each of its stages. Cultural manifestations in the Ancient Kingdom of Egypt have not been the exception. Literature in the Old Kingdom The oldest preserved literary texts are of three classes:religious poetry, moral exhortations and bio
In the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt it was characterized by an evolution in religious ideas . Instead of being considered as in previous times, as a god, the kings will now be considered as mere mortals, although of great ability and bravery. The relationship between humanity and the divinity of
The cultural manifestations in the New Kingdom are many, a change in the language, with abandonment of the classical Egyptian in which it was written during the Middle Kingdom, and adoption of a language closer to the spoken one, the Amarna revolution is indicated as a starting point of this transfo
In the thirteenth century a. C. (around the year 1279), the king of Babylon complained about the bands of the akhlamu , that is to say, of the nomads who later, according to the name of one of their clans, would be called aramu or Aramaic , although it is also possible that these nomadic bands were
The organization, administration and society were changing in each Period, in the Old Kingdom, the monarchy reached its maximum degree of centralization before falling into the first of the recurring periods of territorial disintegration that occurred throughout Egyptian history. That centralization
The Third Holy War began in 356 BC and lasted until 346 BC. C, between the armies of Fócida and Tebas by the control of Delphi. This war was longer and more violent than the Second Holy War. Fócida was fined by the Amphictyons (religious league that grouped twelve towns of Greece) which angered the
When Sparta, in the second half of the sixth century, had managed to conquer a large part of the Peloponnese and had reorganized its Constitution, it continued to have one of its most dangerous enemies in the neighboring polis of Argos. To safeguard the survival of his regime, as well as control ove
After the victories of Sesto and Micala, in 479 B.C., the Greek cities believed it convenient to maintain a Panhellenic League that would protect them from the Persian threat, headed by Sparta and before its resignation, by Athens. In the year 478 BC, the allies decided to form an alliance among th
The king of Sparta, Archidamus II, belonged to the Eurypontidae family, and the name of the Archidamic War is due to him. His friend in Sparta was Pleistoanax, sent into exile in 445 BC. Therefore, Archidamus II was, for some time, the sole king of Sparta. King Archidamus II besieged Plataea in 42
The expedition to Sicily It began in the year 415 B.C. and culminated in 413 B.C. The complex situation created after the Peace of Nicias brought Alcibiades to power, a character with a controversial personality, who seduced the Athenians and was elected Strategist in 420, signing with Argos. Mantin
The Ionian War, also called the Ionian or Decelic War, was the last phase of the Peloponnesian War and receives this double name, due to the two main fronts where it took place: Decelia , was a town near Athens, located about 21 km north of the city, from where the capital was incessantly attacked b
It is called Peloponnesian War which he faced the entire Greek world for almost thirty years, between 431 B.C. and 404 BC. It developed in three areas:Hella, Magna Graecia and the coast of Asia Minor and it took place in three phases:the Archidamic war, the Sicilian war and that of Decelia or Ionia
Egyptian civilization began with the unification of Egypt under a single king, this stage called the protodynastic or pretinite period. Tradition attributes her to Narmer or Menes, who were once supposed to be the same person. Also, from a mace head from Hierakonpolis, preserved in the Ashmolean Mus
The Archaic or Tinite Period of Egypt spans from Dynasties I to Dynasty II. The I Dynasty spanned from 3050 B.C. until 2860 BC in which the most important character was Narmer. All these periods are included in the culture of ancient Egypt. Dynasties of the Archaic or Tinite Period Dynasty I (Nagada
This Memphite era is called by the name of its capital, Memphis (which would be throughout the entire Old Kingdom), in the I nome, today about 25 km southeast of the capital, Cairo. The Old Kingdom comprises Dynasties III to VI. International situation Its chronological period corresponds approxima
The First Intermediate Period is the period from the end of the VI Dynasty to the reunification of Egypt by Mentuhotep II, a Theban prince. Historically speaking, it supposes the collapse of the political scheme of the Old Kingdom, the rise to power of the nomarchs, the appearance of a kingdom in th
The Middle Kingdom comprises the XI and XII Dynasties approximately, as it was seen, since the reunification with the fourth king of the XI Dynasty would take place. In both the Saqqara List and the Abydos List as the last king of the XI Dynasty, Mentuhotep III appears for the beginning of the Dynas
The Second Intermediate Period is the darkest period in Egyptian history, as few monuments remain from this time to report on the events. It was a time when power was not under a single pharaoh and is characterized by the appearance in Egypt of the Hyksos, whose kings make up the XV and XVI dynastie
The Roman Empire began its decline from the third century AD suffering a long and painful agony, due to the inability of their emperors. They were unable to control the internal crisis and were unable to stop the barbarian invasions. 1. Internal causes 1.1 Weakness of the Roman government It had i
The Hebrew culture or Jews who formed the Hebrew culture settled in the region of Palestine, a territory that currently forms Israel , called in ancient times the Country of Canaan or Promised Land . It was located southern Syria, in Asia Minor . Limited to the north with Phoenicia and Syria to the
Preserved thanks to the sand of the salty desert, one of the most inhospitable on Earth, the ancient city of Shahr-i Sokhta it would have arisen around 3200 BC in the province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, in Southeast Iran . The reasons for its disappearance under the desert sands as early as 2,
The Siege of Khe Sanh is a battle of the Vietnam War which opposed the American army to the Vietnamese Peoples Army and the troops of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Viet Cong). It took place at the beginning of 1968, during the famous Tết offensive. It began on January 21, and laste
In the eyes of many, Nicolas Machiavelli is the author of Prince . Nothing more. The universal echo of this political essay has earned him a detestable reputation. According to the Robert dictionary , a Machiavellian person uses trickery, bad faith, does not keep his promises, to achieve his ends.
Cuba , former African kingdom inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo , is bordered by the Kasai and Lulua rivers to the southwest and the river to the north Sankuru River , a tributary of the Kasai. It was built around 1600 by migrants from the lower Kasai River founded and was