The Pantheon -Temple of all the Roman gods The Pantheon in Rome is the most complete surviving building of ancient Rome‚ and is one of the greatest spiritual buildings of the world. It was originally built as a Roman Temple in 27-25 BC on Rome’s Campus Martius‚ by the magistrate Marcus Agrippa. He built the original pantheon as an honour to all the gods and Augustus. It was also constructed as a place of worship for a number of major deities. It is said there were statues of both Augustus and Marcus
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Marriage in China and Europe From ancient times European and Chinese‚ marriage has been regulated by law and tradition with families ranging from very wealthy to very poor. While there are some similarities‚ there are more differences in these laws and traditions that exist between these two cultures. While China has laws that regulate certain aspects of people’s marriage‚ marriage laws like this in Europe do not exist. Europe is a more free going country in terms of being married with a significant
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The Iliad and the Odyssey are some of the best know books of antiquity‚ filled with the history and roots of the Greek people. Also belonging to this list of ancient texts is the Aeneid‚ the epic poem on the founding of Rome‚ and of the man who made it happen‚ a man who was seen and considered as the embodiment of Roman moral values. Because of this‚ the poem if suffused with many instances in which he is able to show the extent of his morality. It is through these examples that we catch glimpses
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This essay is talking about the differences and similarities between Kouros from Anavysos and Augustus of Primaporta‚ which are typical sculpture of Greek and Rome cultures respectively. Since these two sculptures are from different time‚ reasonably‚ the functions of them are different. For Kouros‚ it spoke to the god Apollo and displayed the signs of the curious soul‚ the acquire feeling of flexibility‚ and the interest of the Greek craftsmen. Moreover‚ it is demonstrative of this social mentality
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Introduction Greece as of old was divided among a few many city-states called poleis.Among all these poleis Athens and Sparta were the most influencial and biggest states.Athens was culturally‚economically and socially created while Sparta’s way of life was totally taking into account military system.Geographically‚ Sparta situated in the Peloponnesus penisula of southern Greece and Athens was 100 miles far situated at north-east corner of Sparta. Athens and Sparta were the opponents of one another
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suppressions of the twentieth century. The difference between the two has always been perceived as which side of the World War II they fought on‚ meaning Stalin was viewed as the ‘good guy’ and Hitler as the ‘bad guy’. Hitler in history is written as the evil dictator‚ planning to take over the world and the suppression and murder of over 6 million Jews‚ where Stalin does not have this title due to his support for the allies in WWII. Where the debate between these two men starts is when knowing that Stalin
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representation can be clearly seen throughout the media‚ in our day by day social interactions and even within our own families. Interestingly enough‚ race is constructed in different ways depending on the country‚ but yet there are striking similarities between them. Brazil has a very complex and fluid constructed race. As one of the largest multiracial countries in the West‚ thanks to the African Slave Trade introduced by the Portuguese colonists‚ its color-based color racial classification is
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Roman Greece is the period of Greek history (of Greece proper; as opposed to the other centers of Hellenism in the Roman world) following the Roman victory over the Corinthians at the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC until the reestablishment of the city of Byzantium and the naming of the city by the Emperor Constantine as the capital of the Roman Empire (as Nova Roma‚ laterConstantinople) in 330 AD. The Greek peninsula came under Roman rule in 146 BC‚ Macedonia being a Roman province‚ while southern
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Imperialism in Indochina and the Congo Throughout the 1890’s – 1910’s the imperialists ideas remained similar around the globe. Many European countries such as the Netherlands‚ France‚ Germany‚ and the United States proposed similar ideals regarding the importance of imperialism through acquiring of raw materials and territory. Specifically‚ regarding the conquests of and King Leopold II of Belgium‚ and Napoleon III it is evident that the root cause of European imperialists was to discover foreign
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Persian wars Now to the Persian wars. The Persian wars are a series of battles between Persia and Greece. The Persian Empire at the time stretched from the Indus valley to the Asia Minor and Egypt and was starting to get into Greece and Europe. A few city-states started to send solders to help their fellow Greeks. Nine years later Darius‚ the emperor of Persia at the time‚ started to take his revenge. The first invasion of Greece was in the plains of Marathon near Athens‚ a great and scholared city at
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