2000 AD The Ultimate Collection is a fortnightly partwork collection of hardback books published by Hachette Partworks.The series is made up of 180 volumes featuring some of the biggest stars of 2000 AD’s 45-year history. The spine art on the books combine to display a new image by artist Boo Cook.. The series is the second collaboration between Hachette Partworks and 2000 AD …

The 13th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1201 through December 31, 1300 in accordance with the Julian calendar.. The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan, which stretched from Eastern Asia to Eastern Europe.The conquests of Hulagu Khan and other Mongol invasions changed the course of the Muslim world, most notably the Siege of Baghdad …

Adiabene was an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, corresponding to the northwestern part of ancient Assyria. The size of the kingdom varied over time; initially encompassing an area between the Zab Rivers, it eventually gained control of Nineveh, and starting at least with the rule of Monobazos I (late 1st-century BC), Gordyene became an Adiabenian dependency.

The Year of the Four Emperors, AD 69, was the first civil war of the Roman Empire, during which four emperors ruled in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. It is considered an important interval, marking the transition from the Julio-Claudians, the first imperial dynasty, to the Flavian dynasty.The period witnessed several rebellions and claimants, with shifting …

ローマ教皇の一覧（ローマきょうこうのいちらん）では歴代のローマ教皇をあげる。. 初期の教皇たちはカトリック教会に伝えられてきた伝承による。 歴史的には、教皇の称は3世紀から使われるようになり、西方教会ではさかのぼって歴代のすべてのローマ司教に教皇の称をあてた。

The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) was the armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (c. 500 BC) to the Roman Republic (500–31 BC) and the Roman Empire (31 BC–395 AD), and its medieval continuation, the Eastern Roman Empire.It is thus a term that may span approximately 2,205 years (753 …

The Neolithic Revolution reached Europe beginning in 7000–6500 BC when agriculturalists from the Near East entered the Greek peninsula from Anatolia by island-hopping through the Aegean Sea.The earliest Neolithic sites with developed agricultural economies in Europe dated 8500–9000 BPE are found in Greece. The first Greek-speaking tribes, speaking the …

In 1499, a new dynasty arose in Persia. Shah Ismail I, its founder, was related to Uzun Hassan.He is regarded as the first national sovereign of Persia since the Arab conquest, and established Shi'a Islam as the state religion of Persia. He and his successors, Shah Tahmasp I and Shah Abbas I became patrons of the Persian Safavid art.Court manufactories were probably …

Career as a scholar-official. Su Song was of Hokkien ancestry who was born in modern-day Fujian, near medieval Quanzhou. Like his contemporary, Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Su Song was a polymath, a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different fields of study.It was written by his junior colleague and Hanlin scholar Ye Mengde (1077–1148) that in Su's youth, …

Mosul (Arabic: الموصل, romanized: al-Mawṣil, Kurdish: مووسڵ, romanized: Mûsil, Turkish: Musul, Syriac: ܡܘܨܠ, romanized: Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second largest city in Iraq in terms of population and area after the capital Baghdad, with a population of over 3.7 million.