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  • Los Angeles 1920–90

    Los Angeles 1920–90

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    Los Angeles 1920–90

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    Aldous Huxley disparagingly described LA as ‘nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis’ in 1925. The celebrated author’s presence in Los Angeles (as a screenwriter) is a clue to its explosive growth, its magnetic appeal transcending class, culture and continents. After the San Francisco earthquake (1906) stymied its main west... More
  • Medieval Edinburgh

    Medieval Edinburgh

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    Medieval Edinburgh

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    The natural defensive properties of Arthur’s Seat, an ancient volcano that rises 823 ft (251 m) above the site of Edinburgh have been exploited since antiquity. A Roman, then Celtic, hillfort, it became the northern outpost of the Northumbrian kingdom, before being ceded to Scotland (973). In the 1120s, King... More
  • Mississippian Mound-Builders c. 900–1450 CE

    Mississippian Mound-Builders c. 900–1450 CE

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    Mississippian Mound-Builders c. 900–1450 CE

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    The mound-building cultures of North America appear to have suffered a ‘Dark Age’ roughly contemporaneous with the European version, with the revival beginning in the lower Mississippi valley in the last quarter of the first millennium. This segued into the Plaquemine culture, but was soon be eclipsed by the middle... More
  • Old Testament Sites

    Old Testament Sites

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    Old Testament Sites

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    Set in the ancient Middle (or Near) East, events in the Old Testament focussed around the ancient land of Canaan in Palestine. The Jordan River Valley served as a central artery through this mountainous land, from the Sea of Galilee in the north, to the Dead Sea in the south.... More
  • Paris 1190

    Paris 1190

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    Paris 1190

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    Philip II (r. 1180–1223) began the conversion of Paris into a capital befitting the growing power of France. The city walls and fortress of the Louvre were both commenced in 1190. Completed in 1220, the walls encompassed ten gates and 75 watchtowers: the security they afforded encouraged the rapid commercial... More
  • Paris in 1789

    Paris in 1789

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    Paris in 1789

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    By 1789, Paris was the largest city in France and, on the eve of the Revolution of 1789, had a population of 600,000–650,000. Many had migrated from the Paris basin and from other parts of northern France. 1789 Paris remained largely unchanged since 1701, when Louis XIV relocated the royal... More
  • Persepolis

    Persepolis

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    Persepolis

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    The Persian Empire founded by Cyrus the Great had a number of capitals, in part, because the Achaemenids rotated their court between regional centres according to the season, but also because certain locations became functionally specialized. Ecbatana was the favoured summer residence, Susa for Spring, while Babylon was the commercial... More
  • Phoenix Municipal Expansion 1930–87

    Phoenix Municipal Expansion 1930–87

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    Phoenix Municipal Expansion 1930–87

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    The name Phoenix was suggested because the city in Arizona was founded on the remains of the Hohokam civilization and their canal networks. But its explosive growth (48,000 in 1930; 980,000 in 1990) derived from a more muscular harnessing of water: the Roosevelt (1911) and Coolidge Dams (1930). The early... More
  • Plan of Baghdad City 762 CE

    Plan of Baghdad City 762 CE

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    Plan of Baghdad City 762 CE

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    In c. 758–762 the Islamic Abbasids built Baghdad, the capital city of their empire. Located next to trading routes and the River Tigris, the city took four years to build, with construction beginning under the astrological sign of the lion, Leo, signifying fire and strength. The original city plans show... More
  • Roman Londinium c. 225 CE

    Roman Londinium c. 225 CE

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    Roman Londinium c. 225 CE

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    Roman Londinium was built in c. 50 CE where the City of London is now located. It grew around the northern end of a garrison timber bridge (Thames Bridge). The Thames allowed easy movement of goods between Britain and the continent. After Queen Boudicca burnt Londinium to the ground during... More
  • The City of Rome c. 1000

    The City of Rome c. 1000

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    The City of Rome c. 1000

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    Following the end of the Roman Empire the ‘patrimony of Saint Peter’ consisted of a jumble of far-flung estates bequeathed to the papacy by wealthy Romans in the twilight of the Empire. However, the Byzantine Emperor had confiscated papal estates in southern Italy, Sicily and Illyricum during the great Iconoclastic... More
  • The City of Rome c. 14 CE

    The City of Rome c. 14 CE

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    The City of Rome c. 14 CE

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    In his memoir, the Roman Emperor Augustus claimed ‘I found a city made of sun-dried brick, I left her clothed in marble’. Above all, Augustus brought the gift of peace, after the protracted civil war that saw his emergence. In his long reign (31 BCE–14 CE) he went on to... More