Unfortunately for the Soga, their constant promotion of the gospel worked too well. Empress Suiko’s second-in-command, Prince Shotoku, embraced the Buddhist philosophy. No, he bear-hugged it. The student had become the master. He was even more devout than the Soga leaders.
The leader exercised both religious and secular rule. Indigenous peoples of the Americas Historian Jack Weatherford has argued that the ideas leading to the American Constitution and democracy derived from various indigenous peoples of the Americas including the Iroquois. Weatherford claimed this democracy was founde...
Of course, a crowd of 6,000 people trying to speak at the same time would not have made for effective government. So the Athenian system also relied on a 500 member governing council called the Boule, to set the agenda and evaluate proposals, in addition to hundreds of jurors and magistrates to handle legal matters. ...
In 1914, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of the central Powers, and they were defeated in October 1918. The title of the Sultan was officially eliminated in 1922 and this marked the official end of the once mighty Ottoman Empire. The remaining lands of the Empire became the Republic of Turkey under...
It was actually called the United East India Company, or VOC for short and its creation marked a new chapter in the history of the Netherlands. The political motivations were clear: the Dutch needed a new economic engine to fight off the Spanish and to restore their wartorn country. The VOC was their only hope which ...
in a grave that was already an exceptional find, a tomb that had never been raided. Mysterious music Inside was a skeleton, and on the skull the beehive hairstyle studded with jewels. The skeleton was of a young woman named Li Chew a minor descendant of the Tang royal family. For 18 months, the team carefully picked ...
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