The Age of Reflection (Romanticism) was an intellectual movement which lasted roughly half a century from the beginning of 1800 until 1840/50. The movement grew in significant leaps and bounds […]
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people living in Mexico from 1300 to 1521 AD, before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. They originated from an alliance of hunter-gatherers in […]
Socrates is seen as one of the founders of western philosophy (1). What we know of him historically comes from literary sources although he left none of his own writings. […]
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56 – c. 120 AD) was a Roman senator, public official, and perhaps most notably a historian of the Roman Empire. Not much informs us of […]
Bartolomé de las Casas (1484 – 1566 AD) was a Spanish historian who went on to become the first resident Bishop of Chiapas as well as the “Protector of Indians.” […]
The Age of Enlightenment was a movement which included a process of philosophical, scientific, political discourse that grew to dominate much of Europe from the 17th to 19th centuries (1). […]
The Scientific Revolution began in the mid 16th century and lasted till the late 17th century. It was a period of revolutionary scientific, theoretical, and experimental development that contributed to […]
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c. 69 – c. 122 AD) was a Roman biographer and writer who, according to his friend of Pliny the Younger, was a quiet, studious person, as […]
Politics, art, mathematics, science, philosophy, and culture flourished during the Golden Age of Greece, a significant period in their history lasting through the 5th and 4th centuries BC (510-323 BC) […]
Born (c. 430 – 354 BC) during the early years of the Peloponnesian War and into a wealthy equestrian family, Xenophon was an Athenian active during a tumultuous time in […]
