A Brief History of India: Aryans - The History Files
WEBJan 29, 2011 · Governmental matters were discussed by an administrative body called the samiti in an assembly called the sabha.Amongst the royal officials were the purohita (the high priest), the senani (army general), the amatya (chief minister), and the gramani (head of the village). Then there were the doot (envoys), and spas (spies). Later, several other departmental posts came in existence including the ...
The Discovery of Gilgamesh's Tomb - The History Files
WEBThe Discovery of Gilgamesh's Tomb. Archaeologists in Iraq in 2003 were reportedly of the belief that they may have discovered the lost tomb of Gilgamesh, ruler of the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk and the subject of the oldest recorded story in history. That story, The Epic Of Gilgamesh, was recorded on Sumerian clay tablets in the third ...
John Smith and the Powhatan (1608) - The History Files
WEBby Mick Baker, 17 July 2018. John Smith's description of the Powhatan confederacy in AD 1608 is one of the best records available of the natives before colonial expansion took its toll on their civilisation and population numbers. Within a century of its creation the Powhatan confederacy collapsed, unable to retain its lands, keep its people ...
The Sumerian King List - The History Files
WEBAncient Mesopotamia The Sumerian King List by Peter Kessler, based on the work of Samuel Noah Kramer, 22 September 2007: The highly important Sumerian king list was written in Sumerian cuneiform on clay tablets, with the first version probably appearing during the Ur III Period (circa 2150-2000 BC).The list presumed to detail the dominant, and 'official', kings from the beginning of history ...
Kingdoms of the Germanic Tribes - Suevi (Suebi) - The History Files
WEBThe Germanic tribes seem to have originated in a homeland in southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, with the Jutland area of northern Denmark, along with a very narrow strip of Baltic coastline).They had been settled here for over two thousand years following the Indo-European migrations. The Germanic ethnic group began as a division of the western edge of late proto-Indo-European dialects ...
Kingdoms of Italy - Langobards (Lombards) - The History Files
WEB8 - 6 BC: Migrations of Marcomanni from the region of northern Bavaria and the River Main lead them to the homeland of the Boii in Bohemia.The Marcomanni king, Maroboduus, forms a confederation of tribes which includes Langobards, Lugii, Marcomanni, and Senones, along with the Boii themselves.Possibly this also incorporates remnants of the alliances of Ariovistus of the Suevi in 58 BC.
Origins of the Slavs - The History Files
WEBA personification of the early Wends was presented by a gospel book of AD 990 which showed them as the Sclavinia (early Slavs) During antiquity, much of the territory to the north of the Black Sea was generally labelled as being Sarmatian or Scythian, leading some students of Slavic history to assume that the Sarmatians were in fact the early Slavs.
Early Independent Britain AD 400-425 - The History Files
WEBApr 1, 1999 · Post-Roman Britain Early Independent Britain AD 400-425 by Peter Kessler, 1 April 1999. Updated 16 February 2019: The well-known date of Britain's final official break from Rome is AD 410, but by that stage Roman Britannia had mostly been fighting its own battles for at least thirty years with only occasional support from Rome itself.
The Ubaid Period - The History Files
WEBThe Ubaid culture was the crossover point between prehistory and the threshold of early urban civilisation. It is named after the site at which pottery from the period was first discovered, at Tell al-'Ubaid in southern Mesopotamia. Ubaid culture can be split into three phases between 5300-3900 BC: Early Ubaid (or Eridu, the Sumerian 'First ...
Kingdoms of Northern Europe - Angeln (Angles) - The History Files
WEBThe Germanic tribes appear to have originated in a homeland in southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, with the Jutland area of northern Denmark, along with a very narrow strip of Baltic coastline).They had been settled here for over two thousand years following the Indo-European migrations. The Germanic ethnic group began as a division of the western edge of late proto-Indo-European dialects ...