Gudea

MÖ 2125 civarında Akad sonrası dönemde Lagash'ın hükümdarı, Tello'daki çok sayıdaki yazıtlı heykelinden bilinmektedir. Bunlar Sümer sanatının en bilinen nesneleri arasındadır.

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Maximian

Maximian, MS 286 ile 305 yılları arasında Roma İmparatoru oldu ve lakabı "Herculius"tu; Diocletianus ile birlikte yönetimde bulundu. 285'te Galya'daki isyanı bastırmak, German kabileleriyle mücadele etmek ve Bagaudae'ye karşı kampanya başlatmak gibi zorluklarla karşılaştı. Carausius, 28...

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Maximian

Maximian, Roman emperor from 286 to 305, nicknamed Herculius, ruled alongside Diocletian. He faced challenges, suppressing Gaul rebels in 285, battling Germanic tribes, and launching a campaign against the Bagaudae. Carausius rebelled in 286, leading to the secession of Britain. Maximian failed t...

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Maximian

Ashurbanipal

MÖ 668-627 yılları arasının son büyük Asur kralı olan Ashurbanipal, antik Orta Doğu'da ilk sistemli olarak düzenlenmiş bir kütüphane kuran kişiydi. Sarayında ve büyükbabası Sennacherib'in sarayında büyük bir Asur kil tablet koleksiyonunu oluşturdu...

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Shulgi

III. Ur hanedanını kuran Ur-Nammu'nun oğlu ve halefi. İmparatorluğun ekonomisi üzerinde kontrolü ele geçirdi ve topraklarını Dicle Nehri'ne ve Zagros Dağları'na kadar genişletti. En önemli zaferi Elam'a karşı kazanıldı. İmparatorluk, Shulgi'nin üçüncü halefinin hükümdarlığı sırasında çöktü. İmpar...

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Sargon

Akkad İmparatorluğu'nun kurucusu olan Sargon, MÖ 24. yüzyılın sonlarında Mezopotamya'nın ilk başarılı hükümdarıdır. Sargon, Agade adında yeni bir başkent kurarak güney Mezopotamya'nın tamamını ve Suriye, Anadolu ve Elam'ın (batı İran) bazı bölgelerini fethetti. Bölgenin ilk Süryanî hanedanlığını ...

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Donatello, St. Mark

Donatello's bronze statue of St. Mark is a Renaissance masterpiece, created between 1411 and 1413. It is located in the Orsanmichele Church in Florence, Italy. The statue stands at over seven feet tall and is considered to be one of the earliest examples of Renaissance sculpture. It is a free-sta...

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Donatello, St. Mark

Epicurus

Epikur, M.Ö. 341 yılında Atina yakınlarındaki Samos adasında doğmuş bir Yunan filozofudur. Öğrenimlerini Atina'da tamamladıktan sonra, M.Ö. 306 yılında Atina yakınlarındaki Kardena'da kendi öğretilerini öğretmek için kendi okulunu kurdu. Okulunda, dünyevi zevk...

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Cassivellaunus

Cassivellaunus war ein britischer König, der im 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. regierte. Er war ein Anführer des Stammes der Catuvellauni, der einige Teile des heutigen England und Wales kontrollierte. Er kämpfte gegen Julius Caesar, als dieser 55 v. Chr. in Britannien einfiel. Obwohl er z...

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Cassivellaunus

Cassivellaunus était un chef de guerre britannique qui a mené une rébellion contre Jules César et ses légions romaines lors de la conquête de la Grande-Bretagne par les Romains en 54 av. J.-C. Il était le chef de la tribu des Catuvellauni, qui contr...

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Menes

Geleneğe göre Yukarı ve Aşağı Mısır'ı tek bir merkezi monarşide birleştiren birleşik Mısır'ın ilk kralı. MÖ 3. yüzyılda Mısırlı bir tarihçi olan Manetho, ona Menes adını verdi; MÖ 5. yüzyıl Yunan tarihçisi Herodotus ondan Min olarak söz etti; ve 19. hanedanın (MÖ 13. yüzyıl) iki yerli kral listes...

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Cassivellaunus

MÖ 54'te Caesar'ın Britanya'ya yaptığı ikinci baskında Julius Caesar tarafından yenilgiye uğratılan güçlü bir İngiliz reisi.

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Boudicca

MS 60'da Roma yönetimine karşı bir isyana öncülük eden Iceni kabilesinin veya Norfolk'un eski İngiliz kraliçesi. Boudicca, Romalıların ailesine, kendisine ve kabilesine eziyet etmesinden sonra, Doğu Anglia'da bir isyan çıkardı. Camulodunum (Colchester), Verulamium (St. Albans), Londinium (Londra)...

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Djoser

Either the first or the second pharaoh of the Third Egyptian Dynasty, c2660 BC. Later tradition was probably correct in regarding him as the effective founder of the Old Kingdom. His most lasting monument is his burial place, the step pyramid complex at Saqqara, designed by the royal architect Im...

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Charlemagne

Charles the Great [Charlemagne] is one of the greatest historical and legendary heroes of western romance. The son of Pepin the Short, he became sole king of the Franks and leader of the Amulfing dynasty in 771. The monk Einhard, Charlemagne’s court biographer, gives the impression of a cultured,...

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Boudicca

[inaccurately Boadicea]. Queen of the Iceni, a British tribe inhabiting a large area of East Anglia. Under a special client-king agreement (dependent sovereignty), their King Prasutagus was permitted to continue ruling after the Romans began to occupy Britain in AD 43. Upon his death (c60), Rome ...

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Boadicea

See Boudicca.

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Boadicea

Alexander the Great

Bom in 356 bc, Alexander was tutored for six years by the philosopher Aristotle before he succeeded his father Philip as king of Macedonia and the mainland of Greece. He realized the Greeks’ long-felt ambition to be free from Persian domination by crushing Darius, but extended the defeat of Persi...

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Khasekhemwy

Mısır'da 2. hanedanlığın (M.Ö. 2775-2650) altıncı ve son kralıdır. 2. hanedanın iç mücadelelerini sona erdirip ülkeyi yeniden birleştirdi. Son Abydene/Abydos hükümdarıdır. Muhtemelen Hierakonpolis'ten başlayarak, tüm krallık üzerindeki kontrolünü genişletti. Anıtları, Yukarı ve Aşağı Mısır'ın bi...

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Djoser

Kral Djoser, Mısır'ın en eski önemli taş binasının yapımını üstlenen Mısır'ın 3. hanedanının ikinci kralı (MÖ 2650-2575).

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Shulgi

The son and successor of Ur-Nammu, who founded the Ur III dynasty. He gained control over the economy of the empire and extended his holdings up the Tigris River and through the Zagros Mountains. His most important victory was over Elam. The empire collapsed during the reign of Shulgi's third suc...

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Shulgi

Holmes, William Henry

American archaeologist who extinguished the more bizarre theories of the origins of humans in North America and who helped establish professional archaeology in the US. Holmes opposed a popular belief that there was a period in New World prehistory comparable to Upper Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) ...

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Holmes, William Henry

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great (Alexander III), king of Macedonia, began his career of conquest in 335 BC. He overthrew the Persian Empire and laid the foundation for the territorial kingdoms of the Hellenistic world. Born in Macedonia in 356 BC, he was the son of Philip II and Olympias. He was taught by th...

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Alexander the Great

Cassivellaunus

A powerful British chieftain who was defeated by Julius Caesar during Caesar's second raid of Britain in 54 BC. Cassivellaunus is the first man in England whose name we know and he led his tribe, the Catuvellauni, a group of Belgic invaders from the River Marne area. He used guerrilla tactics and...

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Cassivellaunus

Menes

The first king of unified Egypt, who, according to tradition, joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single, centralized monarchy. Manetho, a 3rd-century-BC Egyptian historian, called him Menes; the 5th-century-BC Greek historian Herodotus referred to him as Min; and two native-king lists of the 19th ...

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Menes

Sargon

The founder of the Akkadian empire in the late 24th century BC, the first successful ruler of Mesopotamia. Sargon founded a new capital at Agade, conquering all of southern Mesopotamia as well as parts of Syria, Anatolia, and Elam (western Iran). He established the region's first Semitic dynasty ...

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Sargon

Djoser

The second king of the 3rd dynasty (c 2650-2575 BC) of Egypt, who undertook the construction of the earliest important stone building in Egypt. His reign was marked by great technological innovation. He and his architect / minister, Imhotep, who was himself deified, constructed the Step Pyramid a...

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Djoser

Tutankhamun

A minor Egyptian pharaoh of the late 18th Dynasty who came into great prominence when his tomb in the Valley of Kings at Thebes was found with minimal disturbance by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in 1922. A son of Amenhotep III, he succeeded the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten. During an undistingui...

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Tutankhamun

Boudicca

Ancient British queen of the Iceni tribe or Norfolk who led a revolt against Roman rule in 60 AD. After suffering many cruelties to her family, herself, and her tribe at the hands of the Romans, Boudicca raised a rebellion throughout East Anglia. They burned Camulodunum (Colchester), Verulamium (...

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Boudicca

Strabo

Greek geographer and historian whose multi-volume "Geography" is the only extant work covering the whole range of peoples and countries known to both Greeks and Romans during the reign of Augustus (27 BC-14 AD).

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Strabo

Ashurbanipal

The last of the great kings of Assyria (668-627 BC), who established the first systematically organized library in the ancient Middle East, a huge collection of Assyrian clay tablets in his palace and that of his grandfather, Sennacherib. The library has been extremely valuable in revealing the a...

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Ashurbanipal

Khasekhemwy

The sixth and last king of Egypt in the 2nd Dynasty (c 2775-2650 BC) who ended the internal struggles of the mid-2nd dynasty and reunited the country. He was the last Abydene/Abydos ruler. Probably starting from a base at Hierakonpolis, Khasekhemwy extended his control over the whole kingdom. His...

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Khasekhemwy

Tlatoque

An Aztec ruler of a city-state in the Basin of Mexico. Such a ruler was supported by the produce grown on communal land and by tributes paid in labor and services. The tlatoque claimed descent from Quetzalcóatl through the Toltecs.

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Tlatoque

Charlemagne

The king of the Franks from 768-814 AD, who conquered the Lombard kingdom in Italy, subdued the Saxons, and annexed Bavaria to his kingdom. He is one of the greatest historical and legendary heroes, son of Pepin the Short, restored the kingdom's laws and economy, and re-established the institutio...

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