Born into a Jewish family living in Cordoba, Spain, Moses Maimonides (or Moshe ben Maimon) (1135-1204 AD) had a substantial influence on both philosophical and Jewish theological thought. He […]
The Viking Age was a period in Medieval history (793-1066 AD) marked by trade, raids, colonization, and conquest of the Scandinavian Norsemen known as the Vikings, a people who had […]
The Hellenistic Period marks the time between the moment of Alexander the Great’s (356-323 BC) death in 323 BC and the rise of the Roman Empire in 31 BC. It […]
F.E. Deist’s intent is to illustrate the rich multi-faceted nature of the study of history (historiography), and he seeks to challenge a naive monolithic concept that history is merely “a […]
The Renaissance, which means “rebirth” and denotes the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern world, ran from the 14th to the early 17th centuries and included a resurgent […]
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.” […]
