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What much older empire was Carthage a colony of?
Phoenecia.
What are the reasources of the Persian Empire?
The resources of largest controlled land area to date, stretching from today's Libya to Pakistan. A population of perhaps 40 million. Militaty forves totalling over two million if all were mobilised. A large navy from the maritime states Egypt, Phoenecia, the Asian Greek cities. A system of provincial government overseeing local government by diverse systems.
Did the Persians defeat the Greeks?
In the early stages from 499 BCE when Persia dominated, they were able to use Greek inter-city rivalries and disunity, ease of bribing their leaders, and in the field, the superiority of their cavalry and the fleets, which latter they levied from Phoenecia, Egypt and the Ionian Greeks as well. As the Greeks gained more cohesion and the will to combine for their common defence, they were able to consistently defeat the Persians on sea and land, until Persia agreed to peace in 449 BCE.
What are some military accomplishments or advancements of the Persian Empire?
Persia and its associate Media expanded the Empire to stretch from today's Libya in the west to Pakistan in the east. It held this empire together for two centuries by maintaining internal and external security by mobilising local forces, reinforced by Persian-Median central forces. It also maintained a strong naval force even though it had no maritime forces by mobilising the navies of Phoenecia, Egypt and the Greek city-states within its borders.
Who was involved in the Persian war against Greece?
The Persian Empire had expanded during the 6th Century BCE to absorb the Middle East, and in the process had taken control of the numerous Greek cities dotted around the coast of Asia Minor. Some of the cities of mainland Greece continued to support the cities, which they had colonised in Asia, in revolting against Persian rule, culminating in a failed uprising in the early 5th Century BCE known as the Ionian revolt. After failed further revolts, Persia sent a punitive expedition against the cities of the island of Euboia and Athens (who were Ionian Greek) with the intention of installing puppet regimes. This was defeated at the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE. Persia then decided that the only way to put an end to this was to establish an ethnic frontier by absorbing the Greek states in mainland Greece. They began with the cities around the northern Aegean Sea and islands. Then they began to subvert the cities of central Greece with bribes. Finally they invaded with an army comprised of the best contingents from their empire, and a war fleet raised from Phoenecia, Egypt and the Asian-Greek cities. They were opposed by the cities of the Peloponnese Peninsula, Athens, Phokia, Euboia and other smaller states and islands.
Why did the Athenians beat the Persians?
In the early stages from 499 BCE when Persia dominated, they were able to use Greek inter-city rivalries and disunity, ease of bribing their leaders, and in the field, the superiority of their cavalry and the fleets, which latter they levied from Phoenecia, Egypt and the Ionian Greeks as well. As the Greeks gained more cohesion and the will to combine for their common defence, they were able to consistently defeat the Persians on sea and land, until Persia agreed to peace in 449 BCE.
What is the origin of the term anchor baby?
This term originated in the late 1980's. It is a derogatory term referring to the Vietnamese who immigrated to the United States. That the Vietnamese were called boat people led to the children that were born in the states to be called "anchor babies". This was because their "boats" were now anchored to the states by virtue of immigration law concerning children born in the United States.
Why do non -christians celebrate Easter?
It was not a Christian holiday originally, and many of its secular traditions have been maintained.Easter, like Christmas, is yet another ancient Pagan festival on which the Church overlaid a religious holiday in its efforts to wipe out Pagan influence in the world. Surely there are no easter bunnies nor brightly colored easter eggs in the biblical literature. The many secular traditions associated with religious holidays should be a constant reminder that more ancient Pagan festivities were hijacked by the Church. Those ancient traditions that are still practiced every year provide living proof that Paganism has made its mark on the modern world and is too deeply ingrained to be wiped out.Spring festivals were widespread in the ancient Pagan world. In fact, the return of Spring was one of the most significant times of the year to the ancient cultures, along with the harvest. Easter is derived from from those universal ancient traditions that predated Christ by thousands of years. Consider the following:There was an ancient Babylonian holiday that celebrated the resurrection of the god, Tammuz, who was brought back from the underworld by his mother, Ishtar, the goddess of spring. The pronunciation of her name is very close to the pronunciation of easter. In Phoenecia she was called Astarte.The ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring was called Eastre or Ostera or Eostre. Many of our Easter traditions came to us from the Anglo-Saxons, especially bunnies laying eggs in little nests.Lent, the forty day abstinence period, was also derived from the ancient world and was used to honor several different gods.The egg was the symbol of fertility in the ancient world- the perfect way to welcome the return of spring. They were dyed and hung up in Egyptian temples.The hare was also an ancient world symbol of fertility as it is today!
Why do non-Christians celebrate Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter?
Because Christians integrated pagan holidays into their belief systems to convert people easier. Where do you think painting eggs as a tradition came from? Also the Christmas tree. The eggs represent jesus's reserection and Christmas were invented by the Germans in late1800s
Is Easter an excuse to eat chocolate?
The answer could be a Yes or a No depending on an individual's religious beliefs. The Easter egg represents fertility and the history goes back before Christ's time. Chocolate eggs are a modern commercial invention to most likely please children, and maybe to remind them of the importance of Easter within many of the Christian religions. The answer could be a Yes or a No, depending on an individual's religious belief.Here are a few quotes which may help:"Since Bede the Venerable (De ratione temporum 1:5) the origin of the term for the feast of Christ's Resurrection has been popularly considered to be from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre, a goddess of spring…the Old High German plural for dawn, eostarun; whence has come the German Ostern, and our English Easter" (The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, Vol. 5, p. 6)."The fact that vernal festivals were general among pagan peoples no doubt had much to do with the form assumed by the Eastern festival in the Christian churches. The English term Easter is of pagan origin" (Albert Henry Newman, D.D., LL.D., A Manual of Church History, p. 299)."On this greatest of Christian festivals, several survivals occur of ancient heathen ceremonies. To begin with, the name itself is not Christian but pagan. Ostara was the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring" (Ethel L. Urlin, Festival, Holy Days, and Saints Days, p. 73)."Easter-the name Easter comes to us from Ostera or Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, for whom a spring festival was held annually, as it is from this pagan festival that some of our Easter customs have come" (Hazeltine, p. 53)."In Babylonia…the goddess of spring was called Ishtar. She was identified with the planet Venus, which, because…[it] rises before the Sun…or sets after it…appears to love the light [this means Venus loves the sun-god]…In Phoenecia, she became Astarte; in Greece, Eostre [related to the Greek word Eos: "dawn"], and in Germany, Ostara [this comes from the German word Ost: "east," which is the direction of dawn]" (Englehart, p. 4).for more insite, visit www.thercg.org/books/ttooe.htm
Where did Easter originate?
Everywhere they hunt the many-colored Easter eggs, brought by the Easter rabbit. This is not mere child's play, but the vestige of a fertility rite, the eggs and the rabbit both symbolizing fertility.The book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, had this to say: 'What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character.' The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do nowHere, the "dyed eggs" are mentioned as part of the Chaldean(Babylonian) rites. The Catholic Encyclopedia comments: A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of Spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.Reference works that speak of the subject agree that the egg was a symbol of life and fertility among Pagans. The book Celebrations says: Eggs were said to be dyed and eaten at the Spring festivals in ancient Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome. The Persians of that time gave eggs as gifts at the vernal equinox.From these references, it is clear that the colored eggs originated in the ancient springtime fertility rites. The hunt, however, could also have originated there or came into play later, just as the annual Easter egg roll that occurs on the White House lawn. Again, maybe some others here will help with more info.A professor told us the true origin was an offshoot of the crusades through Ireland by French knights. The crusaders would bribe children with food or money, to tell them the names of all the farmers who practiced the pagan tradition of burying a blue egg in their fields with their wishes written on it, for the spring season, that supposedly brought fertility to their crops. The soldiers would then go to the farms of those found with eggs buried and execute the owners for practicing pagan rituals.
