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Book Preview: #1 The North-West Bend of the Aegean Sea forms a great Gulf-the Thermaic Gulf-enclosed by land on three sides. To the west, the gently rolling plains of Pieria and Emathia are surrounded by the rich Amphaxitis plain.
#2 The question of the ethnicity and language of the ancient Macedonians has been caught up in the identity politics of the modern peoples and states of...
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Get the Summary of Erik Sass's The Mental Floss History of the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Mental Floss History of the World" by Erik Sass provides a sweeping overview of human history, from the earliest nomadic groups to the complexities of the modern world. It traces the development of agriculture, the rise of cities and empires, and the evolution of societies and religions. The book delves into...
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#1 The Roman Empire was in decline by the third century, and the Roman people were becoming increasingly apathetic and enervated. The military, which had once been a source of strength for the empire, fell victim to the sickness of the age.
#2 The Roman Empire was beginning to fall apart. The economy was suffering, people were becoming scared, and the government was unable to respond...
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Harris's The Lost World of Byzantium in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Lost World of Byzantium" by Jonathan Harris explores the rich tapestry of Byzantine history, focusing on the empire's cultural, religious, and political transformations. The book delves into the reign of Emperor Constantine, whose conversion to Christianity marked a significant shift in the Roman Empire's religious...
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Book Preview: #1 The people of Mesopotamia, who lived in the area now known as Iraq, fought against the effects of time. They lived as if in sand castles, constantly building and rebuilding a world that would eventually be washed away. Nothing endured.
#2 The Mesopotamians were able to overcome the constraints of time only in their record keeping, and this led to the habit of kings...
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#1 The Romans developed a story about how their city was first founded, which traced its origins back to a remote past beyond even the age of Romulus and Remus. The Romans wanted to connect with the more ancient civilization of the Greeks, and so they adopted a Trojan Aeneas as their founder.
#2 The Roman Empire was founded on the rural virtues of the Roman peasant,...
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#1 After the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC, Octavian rose to power. He used military force to defeat the tyrannicides Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, and then eliminated his erstwhile allies, among them Mark Antony.
#2 The Roman Empire used the term cohors praetoria to describe a group of soldiers who were selected from the bravest. They were exempt...
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Get the Summary of Stefanie Caponi's Guided Tarot in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Guided Tarot: A Beginner's Guide to Card Meanings, Spreads, and Intuitive Exercises for Seamless Readings" by Stefanie Caponi is a comprehensive resource for those embarking on the journey of tarot reading. The book emphasizes tarot as a tool for self-discovery, personal growth, and spiritual connection rather than mere fortune-telling....
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#1 I was allowed to enter Iraq, and when the border guard saw that I was bringing supplies into the country, he gave me a permit. But my two Kuwaiti assistants were afraid that the Iraqi soldiers would target them as Arabs, so they stole their plates.
#2 I knew that being a neutral South African would not help me when it came to dealing with Iraqi gunmen. I was a visible...
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#1 The first wheels were used for turning clay pots and were later attached to axles to improve the efficiency of moving across dry ground for agriculture and warfare. The first great breakthrough in communication happened nearly two million years earlier when our distant ancestors developed a larynx position lower in the throat than other primates.
#2 The intelligence...
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#1 Ineni, the well-regarded royal architect, supervised the excavations of a secret burial chamber for Tuthmosis I. The prisoners had spent five years in a remote valley excavating the tomb, and by day they had endured withering summer heat and surprisingly frigid blasts of desert cold. At night they slept under a sky shot through with stars.
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#1 The city-state of Sparta was known for its powerful military, but was actually very small in size. It was noted by the Greeks that Sparta was unremarkable.
#2 The geography of the Peloponnese had a profound effect on the history and psychology of the Spartans. The dew-claw of this dragon-like peninsula is the Argolid peninsula in the north-east, and above it lies...
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#1 The Great Sphinx is a monolith, carved out of the limestone bedrock of the Giza plateau, two hundred and forty feet long, thirty-eight feet wide across the shoulders, and sixty-six feet high. It is worn down and eroded, but nothing else that has reached us from antiquity even remotely matches its power and grandeur
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Get the Summary of Simon Winchester's Knowing What We Know in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Simon Winchester's book "Knowing What We Know" explores the evolution of knowledge transmission from ancient times to the modern era. It begins with the story of Shukla Bose, who transformed from a hotel executive to an educator, providing free education to impoverished children in Bengaluru, India. The book examines the...
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#1 The paintings and sculptures at the Knossos museum were largely recreations of the early twentieth century AD. It was easy for Waugh, visiting soon after the restoration, to spot how little of the art was actually Minoan.
#2 Evans, the son of a well-known antiquarian, was appointed Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in 1884. He developed the collection into a research...
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Book Preview:#1 The Greeks, who were the first to make this distinction, felt that they were different from any other people. They felt that they were not barbarians, but they were foreigners who did not speak Greek.
#2 The Greeks were the first civilization to create a written law, and they were also the first to develop a sense of freedom. They were ruled by Law, which respected...
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#1 I bought a book called The Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple in 1979. It was a historical detective story about an African tribe that every sixty years enacted a ceremony called the Sigui, during which their priests put on masks and performed a complex dance. This was a renewal ceremony based on the apparent motion of Sirius.
#2 The Egyptians were the greatest...
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Get the Summary of Matt LaCroix's The Stage of Time in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Stage of Time" by Matt LaCroix delves into the mysteries of ancient civilizations, advanced knowledge, and the suppression of historical truths. LaCroix explores ancient texts, megalithic structures, and symbols to argue that Earth was once home to advanced civilizations with profound understandings of energy, reality, and...
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#1 The midwife had brought along a couple of small statuettes, neither of which were particularly attractive. The god Bes was there to help, and he was depicted as a short, pudgy, ugly dwarf. The fertility goddess Heqet was prominently displayed in the home.
#2 Weret places both of the images in a position overlooking the birth to enhance their influence. Taweret,...
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#1 Caesar was very ambitious, and when he returned to Rome after serving with Marcus Thermus in Asia, he began trying to advancement. He was offered a lot of positions by Marcus Lepidus, but he turned them down. He had little confidence in Lepidus' abilities, and he found the political atmosphere less promising than he had been led to believe.
#2 When he became...
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