another’s business rights also known as robbers‚ where they trade goods without permission.(1)The history of piracy dates back more than 3000 years ago‚ it appears that the word pirate(peirato) was first used in about 140 BC by the Roman historian Polybius.(2)He described pirates as those who attack without legal authority.(2)The Jolly Roger flag was made to be scary with a skull and a black background.(3)As many think‚ pirates were the cause of war between the Persians and the Greeks.(5)Between the
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Greek Literature GREEK LITERATURE. The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can be made regarding Greek literature as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries‚ the ancient Greeks created a literature of such brilliance that it has rarely been equaled and never surpassed. In poetry‚ tragedy‚ comedy‚ and history‚ Greek writers created masterpieces that have inspired‚ influenced
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There were three Punic or Carthaginian Wars is Roman history. These were between 264 and 146 BC. These wars were the first great wars of Roman expansion outside Italy. The enemy of Rome had a large empire that stretched along the coast of North America and southern Spain and some parts of Sicily. This empire was known as Carthage. The purpose of these wars was to decide which power would become the dominant force around the Mediterranean Sea. The first Punic War lasted from 264-241 BC. It was
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EVOLUTION OF SOCIOLOGY Soculita Classical Period - Classical Political Thinkers: Plato‚ Niccolo Machiavelli‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ Polybius‚ Thomas Hobbes and Giambattista Vico * according to them‚ political issues are only parts of the specific concerns of the society - attempts were made to find the connections of political issues with social and other physical factors * Baron de Montesquieu postulated that climate‚ geographic‚ economic and
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Laius‚ took him to the Corinthian mountains where they left him bound at the ankles in hopes that he would die. Little did they know‚ a shepherd found Oedipus and brought him back to the city of Corinth. He was then adopted by the King and Queen‚ Polybius and Merope. Decades later the shepherd told Oedipus of his fate and in order to avoid his fate Oedipus ran away from Corinth trying to avoid it. On his journey he ended up killing a man and ending up in the city of Thebes. There he solved the riddle
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While the Carthaginian government make some valid points in their explanation of the blame for the Second Punic War Hannibal. Both they and Hannibal can be seen to share the responsibility for Carthage’s defeat in the Second Punic War. Hannibal’s quixotic plot to attack Rome without a veritable intention to destroy her left Carthage stranded in a war that would ultimately turn against her. However‚ the circumstances and misfortunes faced in a war on foreign soil against the might of Rome can at
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The main focus in this course‚ broadly‚ was the concept that ideas drive events. It seems sufficient to begin by reflecting back to one of the first few classes. Somewhere in that hour and a half class‚ I remember learning about educational perennialism. This is the notion‚ derived from Robert Hutchins‚ that there are a group of ideas that keep coming back and remain relevant in our present and in our future; in other words‚ it is the concept that history is repeated. The idea behind this concept
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the King is a play written around 430 B.C. by Greek author Sophocles. The story is about the King of Thebes‚ Oedipus‚ who was cursed to kill his father‚ Laius. In fear of this curse‚ Laius tried to kill his son. Oedipus survived and was adopted by Polybius. After years of believing a lie and many twists and turns‚ Oedipus finds out the terrible truth about everything. Oedipus is a tragic hero and displays hubris. He also shows much passion for the people he cared about‚ however in the end‚ he invokes
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C Pythagoras born 470 B.C Socrates born 427 B.C Plato born 347 B.C Plato dies 384 B.C Aristotle born 399 B.C Socrates dies 322 B.C Aristotle dies 100BC. 198 B.C Polybius born 151 B.C Ptolemy inactive 146 B.C Greece came under Roman rule 121 B.C Ptolemy first active 117 Polybius dies 120 B.C Plutarch died 106 B.C Cicero born 100 B.C Caesar ruled Rome. 7060 B.C 70 B.C Roman poet Virgil born‚ Rabbi Hillel born 67 B.C Persian form of Zoroastrianism reaches Rome
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An explanation for the beginning of the collapse of the Roman Republic The Roman Republic‚ the precursor to the colossal Roman Empire; one that would last (in one form or another) for 1500 years‚ is the first example in European history of the complete collapse of a constitutional system. The Crises of the Roman Republic is contemporarily used to describe an extended period of time where Rome faced political instability and unrest that ended in the demise of all functions of the Republic‚ and
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