In particular, I’m going to be showing you how history can be divided into various time periods – or ages – and I’ll be explaining how these divisions end up highlighting some of the most important turning points in world history. Intro Let me start by explaining the basics of how this chart works. The vertic...
Meaning, all the gods that were worshiped in Arabia were now collected in a single place. So if you conduct violence here your god and all the other gods are going to kick your ass. As a result of all this Mecca became a trading hub. Meccas would tax this trade. they’d get a cut of everything bought and sold in the city.
France sees an opportunity to avenge its defeat in the Seven Years War. Having invested heavily in its military fleet, the country has the means to compete with the Royal Navy. France allies with the patriots. Spain and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, in turn, go to war against Great Britain. In 1783, the pa...
The emperor’s spiritual authority came from the fact that he or she was the high priest of kami worship. Promote Buddhism too much and it may replace the native religion, which would demolish a key pillar of their power. They needed the two religions to coexist. When emperor Tenmu came to power in 672, he made his ...
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They saw it as a central part of what God was doing for all humanity. And, these prophets, were literary geniuses. Really? Yeah, they expertly crafted the Hebrew language to write epic narratives, very sophisticated poetry, they were masters of metaphor, and storytelling, and they leveraged all this to explore life's...
Elections are the epitome of democracy, right? Well, the ancient Athenians who coined the word had another view. In fact, elections only played a small role in Athenian democracy, with most offices filled by random lottery from a pool of citizen volunteers. Unlike the representative democracies common today, where vo...
