The Discovery of Gilgamesh's Tomb - The History Files
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A History of Indo-Europeans, Migrations and Language - The …
Oct 17, 2015 · Central Asia A History of Indo-Europeans, Migrations and Language by Edward Dawson, 17 October 2015. Updated 15 March 2020: Those peoples who are now known as Indo-Europeans (IEs) were the most widely ranging ethnic group in ancient times.
Kingdoms of the Toltecs - Toltecs
Toltecs (Mesoamerica) The peopling of the Americas remains a complicated subject, and one which is open to a great deal of debate. While earlier migrations are especially debated, it is generally accepted that there was a broad phase of migration (involving several individual waves of migration) into the 'New World' of the Americas between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago.
Full Text of the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 - The History Files
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The Origins of the Huns - The History Files
Some of the features can be explained as follows: (a famous hunnic leader) Balamir = Bala (child) + Mir (king) (the son of Attila) Dengizik = 'sea storm' (a general) Oniki, known to Europeans as Onegesios = the number twelve (the son of Attila) Csaba = 'shepherd' (a Hunnic leader) Atakam = Ata (grandfather, father), Kam = the person who is …
Early Independent Britain AD 400-425 - The History Files
Post-Roman Britain Early Independent Britain AD 400-425 by Peter Kessler, 1 April 1999. Updated 16 February 2019: The well-known date of Britain's final official break from Rome is AD 410, but by that stage Roman Britannia had mostly been fighting its own battles for at least thirty years with only occasional support from Rome itself.
Kingdoms of Northern Europe - Angeln (Angles) - The History Files
The Germanic tribes appear to have originated in a homeland in southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, with the Jutland area of northern Denmark, along with a very narrow strip of Baltic coastline).They had been settled here for over two thousand years following the Indo-European migrations. The Germanic ethnic group began as a division of the western edge of late proto-Indo-European dialects ...
Origins of the Slavs - The History Files
A personification of the early Wends was presented by a gospel book of AD 990 which showed them as the Sclavinia (early Slavs) During antiquity, much of the territory to the north of the Black Sea was generally labelled as being Sarmatian or Scythian, leading some students of Slavic history to assume that the Sarmatians were in fact the early Slavs.
Kingdoms of Syria - Damascus (Syria) - The History Files
fl c.1350 BC: Biriyawaza: Canaanite vassal of Amurru.Named in Egypt's Amarna letters. c.1340 BC: Sensing the weakness of the neighbouring Mitanni empire (as well as of Egypt), Aziru of Amurru makes a secret deal with the Hittite king, Suppiluliuma. He also establishes himself as a strong king in the region, taking control in Damas and even going so far as to conquer the city of Sumur, where ...
A Brief History of India: Aryans - The History Files
Jan 29, 2011 · Governmental matters were discussed by an administrative body called the samiti in an assembly called the sabha.Amongst the royal officials were the purohita (the high priest), the senani (army general), the amatya (chief minister), and the gramani (head of the village). Then there were the doot (envoys), and spas (spies). Later, several other departmental posts came in existence including the ...