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Rediscovering African Geographies
The Catalan Atlas , 1375, by Abraham Cresques – detail showing Northern Africa, with a depiction of The King of Mali and Lord of Guinea, Mansa Musa, 1312-1337, seated on his throne in a stately fashion with crown, orb, and scepter, with the inscription: The richest and noblest King in the world. “This ‘atlas’ was the work of a family of Catalonian Jews who worked in Majorca at the end of the 14th century and was commissioned by Charles V of France at a time when the reputation of the Catalan chartmakers was at its peak. King Charles requested this map from Peter of Aragon, patron of the best Majorcan mapmaker of the time: Abraham Cresques. The ‘atlas’ that resulted has subsequently been called ‘the most complete picture of geographical knowledge as it stood in the later Middle Ages.’ The crowned black man holding a golden disk is identified as Musse Melly , ‘lord of the negroes of Guinea’ - in fact, Mansa Musa, of fabulous wealth. (excerpted from Henry Davis Consulting at Africa .
Eshnunna
Coordinates: 33°29′3″N 44°43′42″E / 33.48417°N 44.72833°E / 33.48417; 44.72833 Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar in Diyala Province, Iraq) was an ancient Sumerian (and later Akkadian) city and city-state in central Mesopotamia. Although situated in the Diyala Valley north-east of Sumer proper, the city nonetheless belonged securely within the Sumerian cultural milieu. The tutelary deity of the city was Tishpak (Tišpak). History[edit] Occupied from the Jemdet Nasr period about 3000 BC, Eshnunna was a major city during the Early Dynastic period. After rising to prominence as an independent state in the early second millennium, during the time of Shamshi-Adad, Eshnunna was occupied by Elam, then conquered by Hammurabi of Babylon in the 38th year of his reign, and absorbed within the Old Babylonian Empire (sometimes called the First Babylonian Dynasty). Archaeology[edit] In the late 1990s, Iraqi archaeologists worked at Tell Asmar. Laws of Eshnunna[edit] Square Temple of Abu[edit] Notes[edit]
Geschichtswissenschaft
Die Geschichtswissenschaft ist die methodisch gesicherte Erforschung vergangenen menschlichen Handelns auf Basis kritisch geprüfter Überlieferung unter einer spezifischen Fragestellung. Definition und Aufgaben[Bearbeiten] Die Geschichtswissenschaft beschäftigt sich mit der Geschichte von Menschen und menschlichen Gemeinschaften, während die Naturgeschichte zu den einzelnen Naturwissenschaften gehört. In der Geschichtswissenschaft geht es weniger darum, das vorhandene Wissen über die Vergangenheit des Menschen nur zu wahren und zu verbreiten, sondern vor allem darum, es zu mehren. Erforschen, Interpretieren, Verknüpfen und Vertiefen stehen im Vordergrund der Arbeit von Historikern. mit einem bestimmten Erkenntnisinteresse, einer Fragestellung, an seinen Gegenstand heran,sammelt und sichtet dann die verfügbaren Quellen,interpretiert diese nach den methodischen Regeln des Fachesund stellt zuletzt seine Ergebnisse dar, um sie in der Öffentlichkeit zur Diskussion zu stellen.
1901 to World War II
The Daily Beagle | The Daily Beagle is a set of articles and essays on obscure history, small conflicts and cultural issues.
ancient maps
home page Down to: 6th to 15th Centuries | 16th and 19th Centuries | 1901 to World War Two | 1946 to 21st Century The Ancient World ... index of places Aegean Region, to 300 BCE Aegean Region, 185 BCE Africa, 2500 to 1500 BCE Africa to 500 CE African Language Families Alexander in the East (334 to 323 BCE) Ashoka, Empire of (269 to 232 BCE) Athenian Empire (431 BCE) China, Korea and Japan (1st to 5th century CE) China's Warring States (245 to 235 BCE) Cyrus II, Empire of (559 to 530 BCE) Delian League, 431 BCE Egyptian and Hittite Empires, 1279 BCE Europe Fertile Crescent, 9000-4500 BCE Germania (120 CE) Greece (600s to 400s BCE) Gupta Empire (320 to 550 CE) Han China, circa 100 BCE Hellespont (Battle of Granicus River, 334 BCE) India to 500 BCE Israel and Judah to 733 BCE Italy and Sicily (400 to 200 BCE) Judea, Galilee, Idumea (1st Century BCE) Mesopotamia to 2500 BCE Mesoamerica and the Maya (250 to 500 CE) Oceania Power divisions across Eurasia, 301 BCE Roman Empire, CE 12 Roman Empire, CE 150 Roman Empire, CE 500
Spatial History Project
But what we understand about the creation of cities is limited to the sources available to us. Many sources (even recent ones) are often incomplete, inaccurate, or not easily adaptable to computational methods, no matter the power of the supercomputer. How can you fully describe a process or movement if all you know is the location of Point A and Point B? In our Geographies of the Holocaust project, we have this challenge in our study of the ghettos in 1944 Budapest (Giordano and Cole 20116). We know where Jewish residents lived, and where market halls were located. And, we know that Jewish residents were only allowed to leave their homes from 2-5 pm to do their shopping.
