Miletus

live off the land and their animals, which they had domesticated from the wild. It is the cradle of civilization because of it’s developed writing style, also known as cuneiform. Mesopotamia was known for its knowledgeable people, such as Thales of Miletus. The Mesopotamian Pantheon had more than 1000 deities, along with hundreds of different religions. Mesopotamian life was more interesting than most people’s daily lives of today. Many people say that there were more civilizations before…

The Greeks are an influential civilization, although the group does believe in some strange superstitions, such as not eating beans, for that fact that they believed beans contain souls of the dead (10 Facts About the Ancient Greeks)! Greece is a peninsula containing numerous islands, surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea on one side and the Aegean Sea on the other (Sakoulas “Introduction”). Its location is significant in helping create the Greek lifestyle, which highly depends on trade and…

to Ephesus where he stayed 2 years lecturing in synagogues & the hall of Tyrannous, later travelled to Macedonia and Greece, then Taros where Paul raises Eutyches from the dead, then Assos and then on to Mytilene, Chios, Samos and then arrived in Miletus, travelled from Tyra to Ptolema then Caesarea and Jerusalem which was the final destination of his missionary…

There are many arguments for and against Pauline Authorship of Ephesians. While there is evidence for both sides, there is one that many lean towards. The argument against Pauline authorship state that it is because of the vocabulary, style, dependence, personal references, and theological discrepancies. Though an array of texts states similar arguments for Pauline authorship, and those can all be under the subpoenas of internal evidence, external attestation, literary affinities, and…

King Philip II of Macedon developed an impressive formidable army, known as the Macedonian Phalanx. In 337 he was chosen to lead this great army of Greeks against Persia. But just one year later King Philip II was assassinated. The new king of Macedon was his son, Alexander III, which was later to be known as Alexander the great, became king at just 20 years old in 336 BCE. Alexander the Great and his inherited army would quickly destroy the Persian empire and dominate virtually all of the…

Flavio Faria g14f0364 1) 3 Chinese major schools .1)Confucianism: This school was created from the teachings of the sage Confucius, and gathered in the Analects of Confucius. It is an arrangement of good, social, political, and semi religious thought, whose impact likewise spread to Korea andJapan. The major Confucian ideas incorporate humankind or sympathy like the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, reliability and that of dutiful devotion. It presented the rule of basically regarding…

Each Pre-Socratic philosopher has a specific understanding of the world and the universe we live on. In the island of Miletus, the search for the origin of everything began with the Milesian School in the persons of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. The first philosopher of the origin of things is Thales. For Thales, water was the reasonable beginning element of all things…

Alexander the Great believed to be one of the great kings of ancient Macedonia. In his short 13 year reign as king, he conquered more land than any other king in his time. At the age of twenty-two, he was crowned king of Greece. The impact Alexander the great had in his time is that he was the king of cultural diffusion. Alexander's conquests brought Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and Asian under one ruler. This spiked trade immensely in these areas and all the cultures from the world…

associations, restructurings, and successions of triumphs against the conquering Persian armies. Only after a long and revolting war, Athens and Sparta were eliminated, and produced Macedonia as the prevailing power of Greece. City-states such as Miletus, Thebes and Corinth would also eventually a chief role in the cultural accomplishments of Classical Greece. During the Classical Period…

Greeks did lose the war against Persia, Greek way of life wouldn’t have died completely. This doesn’t mean though that it would have flourished or benefitted from Persian rule. Before Persian command Ionia dominated intellectual pursuits in Greece, Miletus is considered the birthplace of philosophy, being the birthplace of people like Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximes. However, the name Ionia bares no meaning for most people, it’s not like Athens or Sparta which even children can name a fact or…