Boys in wealthy families would go to school, and studied what were called ‘wisdom texts’ with lessons about literacy and practical information for careers. Many Egyptian students' families wanted important jobs in the royal palace, the temples or army, a government job, tax collector or even practicing medicine w...
Life was pretty tough for these women, but on the upside Virginia was kind of a swamp of pestilence, so their husbands typically died, and that created a small class of widows or even unmarried women who, because of their special status, could make contracts and own property, so that was good, sort of. OK. A quick wo...
But how did the people of Taiwan come to see themselves during this period? Upon acquisition of Taiwan in 1895, Japanese political leaders were faced with a 5-month war of resistance, and once concluded, a Taiwan in difficult circumstances- the ravages of war, disease, ethnic tensions. To deal with this, the Japanese...
The typical romantic play focused on a hero who was fighting against an unjust society to maintain his rights as a human being. These plays embraced nature and the supernatural. The most popular of these was the melodrama, a play where the hero always succeeds. There was usually a battle of good and evil, complete wi...
So this system was dependent on an elected president to be fair and democratic and because of this, presidential powers to suspend the constitution, to abandon civil liberties, to abandon elected governments, were extensive. So Germany faced several specific problems from 1918 to 1923. From 1918 onwards, Allied troop...
We are used to thinking very highly of democracy and by extension, of Ancient Athens, thcivilizationon that gave rise to it. The Parthenon has become almost a byword for democratic values, which is why so many leaders of democracies like to be photographed there. Its therefore very striking to discover that one of An...
