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- Boudicca (6973 bytes)
1: ...y two historians, [[Tacitus]] (in his ''[[Annals (Tacitus)|Annals]]'' and ''[[Agricola (book)|Agricola]]'')...
9: ...unger]], chose this point to call in their loans. Tacitus does not mention this, but does single out [[proc...
11: ...e Trinovantes, under Boudicca's leadership. Their first target was [[Camulodunum]] ([[Colchester]]), t...
13: ...n ([[archaeology]] shows extensive destruction by fire at this time), slaughtering anyone who had not ...
15: ... only four hundred Romans. Boudicca, according to Tacitus, poisoned herself; Dio Cassius says she fell sick... - Isis (20790 bytes)
5: ...[mortal]], and she may simply have represented deified, real, [[Queen regnant|queen]]s.
7: ... dynasty of Egypt|5th dynasty]] which is when the first literary inscriptions are found, but her cult ...
16: ...s ''ee-set'' or the more correct ''ee-sa'' (''the final 't' in Her name was a feminine determinative w...
20: ...ithin their mother's womb. Temples dedicated specifically to Isis become wide-spread only in the Roman...
24: ...-Roman]] world, Isis becomes one of the most significant of the [[mystery religion]]s, and many classi... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...[Polar Aurora|aurora]] and [[Polar ice]], and the first to mention [[Germanic tribes]].
4: ...ere is some evidence he used the [[Pole Star]] to fix latitude and understood the relationships betwee...
6: ...tain's east coast, Kent, [[Helgoland]], returning finally to Marseille.
18: ...term used for "marine lung" actually means [[jellyfish]], and modern scientists believe that Pytheas h...
31: ...eco-Roman Conception of the North from Pytheas to Tacitus (in Arctic, vol. 37, no. 4, Dec. 1984, p. 341-346... - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
9: ...for a while, but these theories have not been verified.
18: ... [[Vulcanalia]], the festival of the Roman god of fire.
20: ...letter to the historian [[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus|Tacitus]]. Pliny saw a strange phenomenon occurring over ...
30: ...us campaign was started to unearth them. Giuseppe Fiorelli took charge of the excavations in 1860. It ...
36: ... are used to seeing in Roman towns, due to the difficult terrain. But its streets are straight and lai... - Leonardo Bruni (2706 bytes)
2: ...[chancellor of Florence]]. He has been called the first modern historian.
6: ... during his time in office. He was succeeded in office by [[Carlo Marsuppini]].
8: ==Significance==
10: ...conception can be found with [[Petrarch]] who had first written, a generation earlier, about a [[Dark ...
14: ...stotle]]. His use of [[Tacitus]]'s ''[[Histories (Tacitus)|Histories]]'' to buttress his republican theses ... - Timeline of Ancient Rome (22347 bytes)
6: ...eation of the [[Roman senate]] and the priestly offices
11: ...us]]'', [[Rome]] gets the first system of sewers; first [[census]]
15: ...[534 BC]] – reign of [[Servius Tullius]]: defined the sacred boundary of Rome - the ''[[pomerium...
17: ...Lucius Tarquinius Superbus|Tarquinius Superbus]]: first [[consul|consuls]] are Lucius Junius Brutus an...
18: * [[508 BC]] – The office of ''[[pontifex maximus]]'' (high priest) is cr... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
9: ...e (from the [[Latin]] word ''princeps'', meaning "first citizen", the only title Augustus would permit...
11: ... [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [[History of Bulgaria|first and second Bulgarian empires]] (see [[List of ...
21: ...or several long-lasting achievements that would define the Empire:
22: *Creation of a hereditary office, which we refer to as [[Emperor]] of Rome.
23: ...le. Duration of Roman military service marked the final step in the evolution of the [[Roman Army]] fr... - Titus (3154 bytes)
9: ...ney relieving victims of both the volcano and the fire. His reign also saw the rebellion led by [[Tere...
13: ...y later emperors, especially those known as the [[Five Good Emperors]]. - Nero (23127 bytes)
4: ...[October 13]], [[54]]. In [[66]] he added the prefix [[Imperator]] to his name. In [[68]] Nero was d...
8: ...lly if there is an involvement of movements or selfish motives.
27: ...a. Caligula proceeded in having her deified, the first woman in Roman history to achieve this honor.
34: ...uard]] helped Claudius gain the throne. Among his first decisions was the recalling of his nieces from...
42: ...ero Caesar Drusus'''. The marriage would last for five years. - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
3: ...aga]]. The existence of a common identity is testified by the fact that they had a name for non-German...
5: In the absence of large-scale political unification, such as that imposed forcibly by the [[Anc...
10: ...age probably arrived ca [[2000 BC]]) is also testified by the fact that no pre-Germanic place names ha...
20: ...eem to have come under the leadership of Germanic figures from outside, according to some scholars.
23: ...]] invoked the threat of such attacks as one justification for his annexation of Gaul to Rome. - Sweden (27111 bytes)
1: ...pe]]. It is bordered by [[Norway]] on the west, [[Finland]] on the northeast, the [[Skagerrak]] Strait...
3: The official [[list of Swedish monarchs]] starts about a 1...
5: ...he early [[20th century]]. The country is today defined by liberal tendencies and a strong national qu...
18: official_languages = Swedish (''[[de facto]]'') <sup>2...
65: ...oned in the [[1st century]], by Roman historian [[Tacitus]], who wrote that the [[Suiones]] lived out in th... - Demographics of Estonia (4738 bytes)
1: ...nic]] group of the Finno-Ugric peoples, as do the Finns and Hungarians. [[Archaeology|Archaeological]...
3: ...n, which is free and compulsory until age 16. The first book in Estonian was printed in 1525.
5: ...t era, the [[Russia]]n language was imposed for official use.
17: * 1,356,045 (official, [[January 1]], 2003)
59: ..., Russian 25.7%, Ukrainian 2.1%, Belarusian 1.2%, Finn 0.9%, other 2.3% (2003) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
9: ...skᬠPodkovice, Hubina, and Radošinare These findings are the most ancient evidence of commercial...
11: ... and by delicate linear decoration, revealing the first attempts at coloring. These shapes reveal a de...
15: ...ry. During the 'fluted-pottery' era, several fortified sites were built and some vestiges remain today...
19: ... expanded the building of strong and complex fortifications, the appearance of large permanent buildin...
27: ==First Arrival of the Slavs== - Charlemagne (11466 bytes)
5: ...g some to suspect the Easter birthday was a pious fiction concocted as a way of honoring the Emperor. ...
10: ... Crown.--Costumes of the Court of Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century.--Fac-simile of a Miniature of the...
12: ...[[771]], leaving Charlemagne the leader of a reunified Frankish kingdom. Charlemagne was engaged in al...
14: ...[[Harun al-Rashid]], gave Emperor Charlemagne the first historically recorded elephant in northern Eur...
32: It is difficult to understand Charlemagne's attitude toward h... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
12: ...rnelius Tacitus.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work abo...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front... - Livia (5714 bytes)
3: ...d great-great-grandmother to [[Nero]]. She was deified by Claudius who acknowledged her title of '''Au...
6: ...e Alfidia. Her mother Alfidia was a daughter of Aufidius Lurco, a Roman Magistrate from an Italian tow...
13: ...clients and pushed many prot駩s into political offices, including [[Otho]]'s grandfather and [[Galba]...
15: ...ry historians or even later ones with access to official documents (like [[Suetonius]]). Most modern h...
18: ...g her into a patrician, and granted her the honorific title of Augusta. These dispositions permitted h... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
12: ...rnelius Tacitus.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work abo...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
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