Macedonians

used large areas of a repeated pattern to surround and frame the figures, forming a focus of the mosaic. A sense of depth was starting to be created by layering the figures on top of one another as they move through the picture field. While the Macedonian pavements are one-step towards tesserae, the use of standardized tile squares is still a ways off. Tesserae were slowly developed in various experimentations carried out across the ancient…

Picture a place where Kings rule the land, Gods guide there every step, and magic is around every turn. Alexander is the 16 year old heir to Macedonian throne, son of King Philip II, and left Alex as prince regent of Macedon until he returns. Olympias, his mother, and Cyn, his half sister, are attempting a ritual to get magic. Katrina and Jacob left their home tribe of Erissa and are in Pella for the Blood Tournament which Jacob is competing in. Jacob has to compete against many other strong men…

modern civilization laid. In a surprisingly simultaneous manner, many of the great philosophers flourished in different regions of the world, such as Confucius, Buddha, Lao Tzu. That time was also a time of the greatest ancient empires ( Romans, Macedonians, Thracian Empires) which cultivated culture, spread knowledge and tried bold legal frameworks to rule the cities. I see it as if the soil of the world was ready to nurture the seeds of new ideas that will be seeing crazy and groundbreaking at…

The Macedonian king Alexander the great was actually not that great. I mean sure he built cities and took over places but does that make you great? I don't really think so. My reasons behind this is he killed as many as 80,000 people in nine months, he sold 20,000 people as slaves, and made others worship him like a god. When Alexander the great went to invade persia and they were fighting he killed over 80,000 people i mean he may have been great back then, but i don't see how killing that many…

Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt as co-regents first with her two brothers then with her son for about 3 decades she was the last ruler of a dynasty of macedonian rulers.Cleopatra was a very educated person for a woman back then she could speak several languages and was a dominant ruler. She was romantic with julius caesar and marc anthony who were both roman leaders. Some would she used both men to get what she wanted which was power. Early history: Cleopatra VII philopator also was known as…

Mark Antony. As a woman in ancient Egypt, Cleopatra was determined have everything she could, even if it meant killing. Contrary to popular belief, Cleopatra, meaning ‘glory of the father’, was not at all Egyptian. In 69 BC, she was born into the Macedonian Greek dynasty (or Ptolemaic dynasty) in Alexandria, Egypt. The dynasty ruled Egypt from the death…

Cosmogony belief was widely spread in the medieval Eastern Christian world; in the Balkans it was present in some parts of Macedonian and Bulgarian lands. In early Christian writings or Old Testament contains the literary version of cosmogony called the sea of Tiberias. Different churches have different beliefs for the concept of god but they all agree in the theory of cosmogony…

due to the assassination of Caesar. They both fought in the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., on the Ionian Sea. In this battle, Roman leader Octavian gained a victory against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. She became the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty. (Cleopatra VII Biography, 2015) Lastly, Cleopatra had a few fatal flaws. She mixed love and politics. According to the website Britannica, she coupled with Julius Caesar to produce an Egyptian child because she had little, if any…

That was a great and long period of Roman’s history over wars basically known as the first and the Second Punic War in around 200s BCE. The main reason was gaining lots of territories or empire with great battles among Rome and several others as its rival Carthage. Rome had acquired most of the western Mediterranean in the era of fifty years and at this moment had to alter or fine-tune its administration, foreign policy, finances, and alliance system to decree these territories. The Second…

born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia in July 356 BC. His father was Philip II of Macedon and his mother Olympias. His father, Philip was assassinated in 336 BC and Alexander inherited the kingdom. Alexander made use of his father’s Macedonian forces, led the magnificent army across the Hellespont in Asia. With some 43,000 infantries and 5,500 cavalries, it was the most formidable military expedition ever to leave Greece. As Alexander conquered more lands he exposed them to goods…