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- Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
1: '''Anna Comnena''' ([[December 1]] [[1083]] - [[1153]]) was a daughter of ...
3: ...red, she entered into a conspiracy in [[1118]] to depose her brother [[John II Comnenus|John]] after h...
5: ... enforced status as a nun, but becomes especially defective afterwards, as she was obviously isolated ...
13: ....PDF Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade]", ''Reading Medieval Studies'' v.9 (1983)
14: ...Comnena's Alexiad as a source for the Second Crusade?]", ''Journal of Medieval History'' v. 29 (2003) - Greek language (35285 bytes)
9: '''Modern Greek'''
13: ...story of some 3,000 years. It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
17: ...n the armies and conquered territories of [[Alexander the Great]], but after the [[Hellenistic]] colon...
21: ...poken by approximately 15 million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in [[Greece]].
32: ... since the [[2nd millennium BC]]. The earliest evidence of this is found in the [[Linear B]] tablets d... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: '''''Ancient Greece''''' is the term used to describe the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]]-speaking world ...
4: ...ns use the term more precisely. Some writers include the periods of the [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]]...
6: ... the Ancient Greek period is the death of [[Alexander the Great]] in [[323 BC]]. The following period ...
10: ...ystems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during the [[Renaissance]] ...
15: ... died in [[323 BC|323 BC]]. Subsequent events are described in [[History of Hellenistic Greece]]. - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ...ducation, work, relationships and death. It also delves into the emotions of experiencing such events...
8: ...of some of the earliest biographies in existence, detailing the lives of [[chief]]s, [[kings]], [[trib...
12: ...lassical biographies include ''Memorabilia'' by [[Xenophon]], ''Parallel Lives'' by [[Plutarch]] and ''Lives...
16: ...]s used this historic period to write the first modern biographies. Their subjects were usually restr...
20: == Modern forms == - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
3: ...m]], ([[1925]]-[[1965]]), US Black Nationalist leader
11: *[[Xenophon]], ([[431 BC|431]]- c. [[360 BC]]), [[Athens|Athe... - Aelianus Tacticus (2273 bytes)
1: ... of the [[2nd century]] [[Anno domini|A.D.]], resident at [[Rome]]. He is sometimes confused with the...
3: ...nd tactics. Moreover, his works, with those of [[Xenophon]], [[Polybius]], [[Aeneas]] and [[Arrian]], were ... - Aeneas Tacticus (752 bytes)
1: ...e Arcadian general [[Aeneas of Stymphalus]], whom Xenophon (''Hellenica'', vii. 3) mentions as fighting at t... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...n and instead encouraged the decoration of Alcibiades. During such campaigns, he also showed his extra...
7: ...ates that he teaches for a living, paid by his students, and that he thinks this is the most important...
9: ...g and everyone, and apparently it offended the leaders of this time. He was found guilty as charged, a...
11: ...hy for much longer than this and include [[Parmenides]], [[Anaxagoras]], [[Prodicus]], the priestess [...
15: See [[Trial of Socrates]] for more detail and background about Socrates' trial and exec... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
8: ...eity [[Zeus]] had instated the festival after his defeat of the [[titan (mythology)|Titan]] [[Cronus]]...
10: ...ds. The [[Sparta]]n adversary of Iphitos then decided to stop the war during these games, which were c...
12: ...ed. Pelops married the princess but not before murdering Myrtilus, whose curse later resulted in the f...
18: ...ympia, Greece, a sanctuary site for the [[List of deities|Greek gods]] near the towns of Elis and [[Pi...
19: ...]]. This statue was one of the ancient [[Seven Wonders of the World]]. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - History of the Kurds (8244 bytes)
3: ... original Mitanni leadership. However, Kurds consider themselves as much Indo-European as they do any ...
5: ...they seem to have preserved a more-or-less independent political position.
7: ... fall of Nineveh the Gutii coalesced with the [[Mede]]s, and, in common with all the nations inhabitin...
9: ...ing men to his successors, being thus mentioned under the names of "Saspirians" and "Alarodians" in th...
11: ... Gutii", was traditionally believed to be the founder of the Gurans, the principal tribe of southern [... - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
1: ... name, Iran. Some Persian scholars protested this decision because changing the name separated the cou...
4: ...n the south of Iran, called ''[[Fars]]'' in the modern [[Persian language]] and ''Pars'' in [[Middle P...
11: ...9 BC. Eventually the Medes came to rule an independent Median Empire, and the Persians were subject to...
13: ...nt region of [[Anshan (Persia)|Anshan]]. Teispes' descendants branched off into two lines, one line ru...
15: ...r, the king promised not to terrorize Babylon nor destroy its institutions and culture. Cyrus was kill... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
3: ...sia Minor]] (546 BC) left the [[Ionia]]n Greeks under Persian rule, while the other Greeks were free, ...
5: ...ties sacked, although they were permitted to have democratic governments afterwards.
7: ... in the end the Athenians and [[Plataea]]ns alone defeated the Persians in the [[battle of Marathon]].
9: ...ek ships to flank and destroy them. Following the defeat, Xerxes and his fleet retired to Asia, where ...
11: ...eet commanded by the Spartan king [[Leotychides]] destroyed the remaining Persian fleet in the [[battl... - Cappadocia (7924 bytes)
4: ...an extensive inland district of [[Asia Minor]] (modern [[Turkey]]). In the time of [[Herodotus]] the C...
5: ...ia_03.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Cappadocia|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
6: ... great central salt lake. But it is impossible to define its limits with accuracy. [[Strabo]], the onl...
9: ...tional Central Anatolian Turkish House.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
12: ..., son of [[Japheth]], "and the Mosocheni were founded by Mosoch; now they are Cappadocians." [[AotJ]] ... - Achaemenid dynasty (14622 bytes)
2: ...Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
3: ...;ی''' - transliterated ''Hakamanshee'' in Modern [[Persian language|Persian]]) was a dynasty in ...
5: ...lthough the Egyptians twice regained their independence from Persia. After the practice of [[Manetho]...
7: ...conquest, the Persian Empire was annexed by Alexander.
11: ...ambyses I of Anshan]] (''Kambūjiya'', "the Elder"), and [[Arsames]] (''Aršāma'' "Having... - History of political science (4644 bytes)
2: ===Antecedents of political science===
3: ...eone studying politics and increasing political understanding.
5: ...ato's analysis to include historical empirical evidence in his analysis.
7: ... history, understanding methods of governing, and describing the operation of governments.
9: ...with those of [[Christianity]], redefining the borders between what was religious and what was politic... - Nineveh (10193 bytes)
3: ...cient [[Assyria]], lying within the area of the modern city of [[Mosul]] in [[Iraq]]. This "exceeding ...
8: ...eafter successive monarchs kept in repair and founded new palaces, temples to [[Sin]], [[Nergal]], [[N...
10: ...f the principal doorways were flanked by human-headed bulls. At this time the total area of Nineveh co...
13: ...d. The Assyrian empire then came to an end, the Medes and Babylonians dividing its provinces between t...
15: ...ving ruled for more than six hundred years with hideous
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