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7 hours ago · History of Cilicia. Cilicia is the Latin and English language name of a region of southern Anatolia and the northern Levant from the 2nd millennium BC. The region was part of many different cultural and political spheres in succession, including the Hittites, Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Abbasid Caliphate, the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, and ...
31 minutes ago · According to Xuanzang, entering the Great Monastery required clearing an oral examination conducted by its gatekeepers. Historian RK Mookerji, in his monumental study of ancient Indian education, described these gatekeepers as “expert religious controversialists, who were always ready with difficult problems to try the competence of the claimants for admission.”
7 hours ago · Whilst, previously, it was assumed that Stone Age farming communities were the first to build permanent settlements, accompanied by defensive structures, the Amnya sites show this wasn’t the case. Hunter-gatherer groups were behind these ancient buildings, an international team of archaeologists concluded, proving that these foragers were ...
7 hours ago · In the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq is a well-preserved ziggurat (a pyramidal stepped temple tower) from the Neo-Sumerians who rose to power in ancient Mesopotamia – or, at least, two ...
7 hours ago · Summary. Political Realism has been described as the “oldest theory” of international politics, as well as the “dominant” one. Central to the realist tradition is the concept of “security.”. Realism sees the insecurity of states as the main problem in international relations. It depicts the international system as a realm where ...
7 hours ago · “A study of skeletons from the Bronze Age and Iron Age in Rogaland, Western Norway, showed that over 40 per cent of the deceased were infants, children, or teenagers,” he says. Reiersen notes that large burial sites from this period are not very common in Norway, but present-day Østfold is one of the areas that seems to have the most of them.
7 hours ago · 2. Modelling making a timeline. When studying past events, it is important to help pupils understand the passage of time and how things change from generation to generation. Developing the ways that young pupils look at their family histories will help them link events together as well as put them in sequence.
