Well, that's partially true. The ancient Hebrew (and modern Jewish) concept of Sheol was quite similar to the original Greek conception of the afterlife (Hades). But the concept of the Elysian Fields goes back at least to the time of Homer and Hesiod, which are about as "mainstream" as it gets...
It was also a large part of what, in the end, destroyed them. Because when they did lose, it was a major disaster for the Spartan state and the numbers of the citizen class took a long time to recover. Eventually the disasters happened frequently enough that the citizen class didn't recover...
There was a scenario which could have led to the CSA having Pacific Ports (or at least one on the Gulf of Cortez) without having to invade Mexico or buy land from Mexico to get them. In 1861-62 the governors of several northern Mexican provinces, including Nuevo Leon, Chihuahua, and Sonora...
The big problem is that the Hittites were constantly meddling in western Anatolia and every time a local power began to rise there which could have possibly become involved in Aegean power politics, the Hittites would come and smash them, sack a few of their towns or force them to pay a heavy...
Indeed, one of the competing "origin stories" of the bayonet says that's exactly how they were created. A 17th century militia unit from Bayonne, France was in pursuit of some outlaws and ran out of powder. Rather than give up the pursuit, they stuck the hilts of their daggers down the barrels...
It might be interesting if the surviving Syagrius can cooperate in some manner with the British leader who was victorious at the Battle of Badon Hill (most likely dating, sometime between 490 and 500 AD), either Ambrosius Aurelianus or Arthur, as the case may be. The Britons apparently rolled...
Let me quote from your introduction.
You introduce a character who makes a big show about a tomahawk as if it is something the other Iroquois have never seen before, and then says "if we can learn of these weapons, we'll be safe from our enemies." If you are aware they already knew about and...
Actually, the Confederacy would have had plenty of money for a navy at least as large as that maintained by the antebellum United States. Confederate revenues from the 12.5 percent tariff which was proposed by Secretary of the Treasury Memminger in 1861 were estimated to be $25,000,000...
ROFLMAO. One of the great historians of antiquity...and writer of the earliest surviving almost complete biography of Nero...accused of being revisionist. Classic. :D
One big issue...the Iroquois had already been in contact with the French for nearly two centuries, and the English and Dutch for nearly a century prior to this date. Indeed, they had just recently been involved in King William's War and Queen Anne's War as allies of the English. They would...
Yes, the whole "Jesus never existed because he's not mentioned until the 2nd century" argument is pretty ridiculous. When one considers that Nero was persecuting Christians in Rome in 64 AD, only about 30 or so years after Jesus was crucified, it's pretty clear that Jesus is not an invention of...
Catherine of Aragon was all those things, and it didn't save her. All that will matter is...can she produce a healthy male heir? However, on the admittedly limited evidence (her three year marriage to Manuel I of Portugal), she appears to have been no better at producing healthy children than...