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  • 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
  • Megalithic Europe c. 3000 BCE

    Megalithic Europe c. 3000 BCE

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    Megalithic Europe c. 3000 BCE

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    Megalithic monuments and extensive chambered tombs have been found at many sites in western Europe, but are often remote and peripheral: along the Atlantic coasts, the Northern Isles of Scotland and the islands of the Mediterranean. The variety is immense, comprising chambered cairns, long barrows, dolmen, cromlech, galleried graves and... More
  • Minoan Crete c. 1500-1250 BCE

    Minoan Crete c. 1500-1250 BCE

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    Minoan Crete c. 1500-1250 BCE

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    The island of Crete was first settled, probably from Asia Minor, in about 3000 BCE. The distinctive and highly advanced civilization that evolved there by the end of the third millennium, was palace-based, with each palace administering a substantial farming hinterland and trading network. Sir Arthur Evans, the archaeologist who... 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
  • Mycenaean Cultural Influence 1600-1100 BCE

    Mycenaean Cultural Influence 1600-1100 BCE

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    Mycenaean Cultural Influence 1600-1100 BCE

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    Mycenaean Greece dominated the Greek mainland, the Aegean Islands and the shores of Asia Minor, amalgamating various peoples into a homogenous culture that had influence that reached, at its furthest extent, to the Levant and Sicily. The Mycenaeans were accomplished sailors, who traded olive oil and ceramic vessels for gold,... 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
  • Plan of Stirling Castle

    Plan of Stirling Castle

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    Plan of Stirling Castle

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    While a Pictish stronghold may have originally existed here, the earliest record of the castle dates to Alexander I’s dedication of a chapel in 1110. As with so much else in Scotland, it was catapulted to prominence by David I, who made it a royal burgh (1124) and a centre... More