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1 day ago · Modern. ↓ Future. v. t. e. Archaic humans emerged out of Africa between 0.5 and 1.8 million years ago. This was followed by the emergence of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens) in East Africa around 300,000–250,000 years ago. The earliest known recorded history arose in Ancient Egypt, [1] and later in Nubia, the Horn of Africa, the ...
5 days ago · The spear, the scroll, and the pebble: how the Greek city-state developed as a male warrior-citizen collective. Richard A. Billows / Bloomsbury, 2023. Reviewed by Adam Schwartz. BMCR 2024.06.14.
2 days ago · Jesus Washing Peter's Feet, painting by Ford Madox Brown (1852–1856), Tate Britain, London. Christianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus (c. 27 –29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles (c. 100) and is thus also known as the Apostolic Age.
22 hours ago · The great tribes of Berbers in classical antiquity (when they were often known as ancient Libyans) were said to be three (roughly, from west to east): the Mauri, the Numidians near Carthage, and the Gaetulians. The Mauri inhabited the far west (ancient Mauretania, now Morocco and central Algeria). The Numidians occupied the regions between the ...
2 days ago · Italy - Renaissance, Art, Culture: Against this political and economic background stands the cultural development of Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries. The term Italian Renaissance has not gone unchallenged; its meaning and boundaries have aroused much controversy. From the 1340s the idea of “rebirth” was a commonplace in critical writing. Authors spoke of how, with Dante and Giotto ...
2 days ago · Aristotle [A] (384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition ...
5 days ago · The terminology used here can be confusing since it involves the word classical, which is used to describe a lot of things. In this case, the time frame of the Graeco-Roman World is also called classical antiquity, and classical antiquity begins with Homer.
