Overview. The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period.Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century, its influence was felt in art, architecture, philosophy, literature, music, science, technology, politics, religion, and other aspects of intellectual inquiry.Renaissance …

13/12/2021 · This lesson will cover Spartan culture, key figures, religion, and traditions. Spartan Gods & Goddesses As in many Greek communities and city-states, Spartan culture included the worship of many ...

The early Slavs were known to the Roman writers of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD under the name of Veneti. Authors such as Pliny the Elder, Tacitus and Ptolemy described the Veneti as inhabiting the lands east of the Vistula river and along the Venedic Bay (Gdańsk Bay).Later, having split into three groups during the migration period, the early Slavs were known to the …

The Phrygians (Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) were an ancient Indo-European speaking people, who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity.They were related to the Greeks. Ancient Greek authors used "Phrygian" as an umbrella term to describe a vast ethno-cultural complex located mainly in the central areas of Anatolia rather than a name …

In 508, after a short period of old-fashioned aristocratic party struggles, the Athenian state was comprehensively reformed by Cleisthenes, whom Herodotus calls “the man who introduced the tribes and the democracy,” in that order. The order is important. Cleisthenes’ basic reform was to reorganize the entire citizen body into 10 new tribes, each of which was to contain elements …

Sparta (Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, Spártā; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, Spártē) was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece.In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the …

Sir Arthur Evans, in full Sir Arthur John Evans, (born July 8, 1851, Nash Mills, Hertfordshire, England—died July 11, 1941, Youlbury, near Oxford, Oxfordshire), British archaeologist who excavated the ruins of the ancient city of Knossos in Crete and uncovered evidence of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization, which he named Minoan. His work was one of …

Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) is an American geologist and oceanographer, and a former government official and NASA astronaut, who flew on three Space Shuttle missions. Sullivan was one of six women selected in NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to include women.During her first mission, STS-41-G, Sullivan performed the first spacewalk by an American woman. …

The Andronovo culture (Russian: Андроновская культура, romanized: Andronovskaya kul'tura) is a collection of similar local Late Bronze Age cultures that flourished c. 2000–1450 BC, in western Siberia and the central Eurasian Steppe. Some researchers have preferred to term it an archaeological complex or archaeological horizon. The slightly older Sintashta culture …

Early history. c. 3200 BCE: Sumerian cuneiform writing system and Egyptian hieroglyphs are first used 3200 BCE: Cycladic culture in Greece 3200 BCE: Caral-Supe civilization begins in Peru 3200 BCE: Rise of Proto-Elamite Civilization in Iran; 3150 BCE: First Dynasty of Egypt 3100 BCE: Skara Brae is built in Scotland c. 3000 BCE: Stonehenge construction begins. In its first …