Search results

Create the page "Bronze Age History" on this wiki! See also the search results found.

How did Public Sanitation Develop
==Early History of Sanitation== ...rm sewage canals for overflow during heavy rains. <ref> For more on Bronze Age sanitation, see: Eslamian, S. (Ed.). (2014). Handbook of engineering hyd

11 KB (1,779 words) - 18:48, 1 October 2021
Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States
...pieces, often composed of the same statues and plinths from the Monumental Bronze Co. of Bridgeport, Conn., can be found as far north as Pennsylvania and New ...were portrayed as victors on the field of morality, vindicated by accepted history.

15 KB (2,347 words) - 18:54, 13 September 2021
How Did Wine Develop
...with religion, cooking, feasting, and our forms of social gatherings. The history of wine also shows it has long been associated with human societies since t ...Places where grape wine has been located from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.]]

13 KB (2,091 words) - 06:35, 22 September 2021
How Did Croesus Become the Wealthiest Man in the Ancient World
...y BC Greek historian Herodotus, who has often been called the “father of history,” the Lydian King Croesus (ruled ca. 560-540s BC) was the world’s wealt ...as a revolutionary step forward in economics. Up until that point in world history, most people traded gold as dust or in ingots, which was often unreliable a

11 KB (1,807 words) - 04:41, 5 October 2021
What is the Deep Impact of Ferrous Metallurgy
...gly found in Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. In fact, in the Late Bronze Age, from around 1400-1300 BCE, iron weapons are found in tombs, including that ...eadrick, Daniel R. 2009. Technology: A World History. The New Oxford World History. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, pg. 37.</ref>

13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:12, 29 September 2021
What is the Deep Impact of Gold
...ns, and culture, see: Bernstein, Peter L. 2004. The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession. Illustrated ed. New York: Wiley.</ref> ...iu C. 2011. Money and Market in the Economy of All Times: Another World History of Money and Pre-Money Based Economies. London and New York.</ref>

13 KB (2,154 words) - 22:06, 29 September 2021
How did the Social War (91-88 BCE) change the Roman Republic and Italy
[[File: 622px-Ancient bronze greek helmet -South Italy.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left| A Samnite helmet c 2nd ...n increasingly powerful group, both locally and nationally in the Augustan age. By that time, it was not uncommon for members of local Italian elites to

13 KB (2,187 words) - 21:59, 28 September 2021
How Were the Assyrians able to Conquer the Ancient Near East
...n trade and merchant activities. Modern scholars generally divide Assyrian history into three periods known as the Old, Middle, and Neo-Assyrian periods or dy ...the Egyptians, Hittites, and Babylonians. <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC. 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell,

13 KB (2,175 words) - 00:34, 19 November 2020
How Did Universal Religions Change the World
...e monotheistic faiths--Judaism, Christianity, Islam: an analysis and brief history. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.</ref> ...ment, see: Bowden, Brett. (2017). The strange persistence of universal history in political thought. New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.</ref>

11 KB (1,689 words) - 23:16, 22 September 2021
Could Another Alphabet Have Developed
...s such as the Hittites and Egyptians that were powerful in the Late Bronze Age. However, Ugarit was a wealthy merchant town that had extensive trade netwo ...e, see: Steel, Louise. 2013. Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean. Routledge Studies in Archaeology v.8. New York: Routledg

10 KB (1,707 words) - 20:49, 22 February 2022
How Did the Activities of the Ancient Vandals Lead to the Creation of the Modern Term ‘Vandalism’
...ermed “vandals.” A historical examination of the term reveals that its history is much more interesting and important than some broken windows or graffiti For a brief period in world history, the Vandals were one of the most important peoples in late antiquity as th

12 KB (2,011 words) - 00:38, 1 October 2021
What Was the Importance of Ziggurats in Ancient Mesopotamia
...y were their many deities' earthly homes. <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC. 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell, ...ng the actual abode of the god or goddess. <ref> Frankfort, p. 21</ref> As history progressed and more resources and better building techniques became availab

15 KB (2,430 words) - 01:03, 21 September 2021
How Did Globalism Begin during the Bronze Age
...he “Great Powers Club” of the ancient Near East during the late Bronze Age. For a period of over 300 years, the leaders of the greatest kingdoms of th ...d Arzawa (southwest Anatolia) were added. <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC. 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell,

13 KB (2,167 words) - 21:15, 22 November 2018
How Did the Ancient City of Nineveh Fall
...the details concerning how the city fell are as important to the city’s history as its great monuments. As great as Nineveh once was, it fell victim to a c ...BC. 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell, 2007), p. 3</ref> For most of Assyrian history, the primary political capital was located in the city of Ashur. Still, Nin

11 KB (1,869 words) - 19:14, 17 September 2021
What Role Did Inflation Play in the Collapse of the Roman Empire
...rfect storm” of civilizational destruction. Some past scholars of “big history,” such as Oswald Spengler and to a lesser extent, Arnold Toynbee, have ev ...ed one denarius. During the Republic, sesterces were made from silver, but bronze during the Empire. The as was the smallest form of currency used in

13 KB (2,087 words) - 21:15, 22 November 2018
How Did Cremation Emerge as a Death Ritual
.... In central and northern Europe, cultures from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age (about 3000 years ago) appear to switch at times from burial to cremation. ...ions in the United States, see: Prothero, S.R. (2001) Purified by fire: a history of cremation in America. Berkeley, University of California Press.</ref>

10 KB (1,675 words) - 05:23, 5 October 2021
Who exactly was Sacagawea
[[File:Sacagaweastatue.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|A bronze statue recognizing Sacagawea.]]__NOTOC__ ...mission without Sacagawea's assistance. She is a common figure in Western history and the subject of countless articles and books.

6 KB (1,009 words) - 21:46, 22 September 2021
Who Were the Sea Peoples
...fferent groups who sacked countless cities and kingdoms in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean region from about 1220 BC until 1170 BC. Wherever the ====The Late Bronze Age System====

15 KB (2,505 words) - 00:37, 24 September 2021
Why Were the Phoenicians Such Successful Merchants
Phoenician culture began in the Levant region sometime in the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 BC), probably as a branch of the older Canaanite culture. Si ...h to be close to other peoples who were literate so that by the early Iron Age, or sometime just after 1200 BC, they were able to develop their own alphab

11 KB (1,840 words) - 00:38, 24 September 2021
How Did the Hittites Influence the Late Bronze Age Near East
The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 BC) was a great abundance and political stability in the anc ...ritory, which contributed to the collapse of one of the other great Bronze Age Near Eastern kingdoms – Mitanni. Once the Hittites subdued Mitanni, they

16 KB (2,633 words) - 23:46, 23 September 2021