Civilization (from the Latin civis=citizen and civitas=city) is a term applied to any society which has developed a writing system, government, production of surplus food, division of labor, and urbanization. #History #Sumer #PovertyPoint #OlmecCivilization #Moundville #MinoanCivilization #MayaCivilization #IncaCivilization #GreatZimbabwe #GöbekliTepe #Egypt #Civilization #City #China #Cahokia #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10175-en/

Immediately after their famous victory over the British at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, as many as 4,000 Zulu warriors pushed on across the Zulu-Natal border. #History #Anglo-ZuluWar #BritishArmy #Rorke'sDrift #ZuluKingdom #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2910-en/

A bird’s eye view of the U.S. reveals perpendicular streets, rectangular fields, and uniformity in both urban and rural landscapes. #History #ThomasJefferson #ReneDescartes #IsaacNewton #CityPlanning #UnitedStates #UrbanPlanning #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-550-en/

Script is the written expression of a language. #History #Writing #Script #Sanskrit #OracleBones #Mesopotamia #LinearBScript #LinearAScript #Gilgamesh #Enheduanna #Egypt #Cuneiform #Civilization #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-71-en/

Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia circa 3600/3500 BCE. #History #Writing #Uruk #Sumer #Script #Nisaba #Nineveh #Mesopotamia #Gilgamesh #Enheduanna #Cuneiform #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-105-en/

The Secession of the Plebs (secessio plebis) refers to a series of general strikes in the early history of the Roman Republic, when the plebeians – or commoners – left the city en masse and set up camp on the nearby Sacred Mountain, to protest their treatment by the ruling patrician class. #History #RomanRepublic #Plebeians #AncientRome #ClassConflict #Patricians #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25975-en/

The Legend of Sargon of Akkad (circa 2300 BCE) is an Akkadian work from Mesopotamia understood as the autobiography of Sargon of Akkad (Sargon the Great, reign 2334-2279 BCE), founder of the Akkadian Empire. #History #SargonOfAkkad #Akkad #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-746-en/

Toby Green’s "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" is a richly detailed and deeply human book centered on the life of Crispina Peres, a powerful African woman trader prosecuted by the Portuguese Inquisition in the 1660s. #History #17thCentury #AtlanticOcean #Cacheu #Colonialism #WestAfrica #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-551-en/

An in-depth historical atlas that examines the history of Europe from circa 117 CE to 1000 CE. #History #Atlas #Cartoraphy #DarkAges #MediterraneanSea #MiddleAges #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-553-en/

The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the opening encounter of the Anglo-Zulu War and a famous Zulu victory against the British Army. #History #Africa #Anglo-ZuluWar #BritishEmpire #SouthernAfrica #ZuluKingdom #ZuluPeople #Zululand #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2909-en/

The Year of the Four Emperors (69 CE) was a brief period of political upheaval and civil war in the Roman Empire. #History #Vitellius #Vespasian #RomanEmpire #RomanEmperor #Otho #Nero #Galba #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10458-en/

Babylon is the most famous city from ancient Mesopotamia, whose ruins lie in modern-day Hillah, Iraq, 59 miles (94 km) southwest of Baghdad. #History #NebuchadnezzarII #Mesopotamia #Hammurabi #Esarhaddon #CyrusTheGreat #Babylon #UNESCO #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-53-en/

Tiberius (42 BCE to 37 CE) was the second Roman emperor, who reigned from 14 to 37 CE. #History #Tiberius #Sejanus #RomanEmperor #LiviaDrusilla #Germanicus #Caligula #Augustus #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10428-en/

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The city of Akkad was the seat of the Akkadian Empire (2350/2334-2154 BCE), the first multinational political entity in the world, founded by Sargon the Great, who unified Mesopotamia under his rule and set the model for later Mesopotamian kings to follow or attempt to surpass. #History #Uruk #Ur #Sumer #Inanna #Eridu #Enheduanna #Akkad #AkkadianEmpire #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-363-en/

Vespasian (9-79 CE) was Roman emperor from 69 to 79 CE. #History #Vespasian #RomanEmpire #RomanEmperor #Domitian #Colosseum #GreatJewishRvolt #Titus #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10437-en/

The great cities of Mesopotamia ("the land between two rivers") developed prior to the late 4th millennium BCE along two rivers – the Tigris and Euphrates – and were fully established by the Early Dynastic period (circa 2900 to circa 2350/2334 BCE). #History #Uruk #Ur #Nineveh #Mesopotamia #Mari #Eridu #Babylon #Ashur #Akkad #Kish #Lagash #Nippur #Sippar #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2900-en/

Nero (37-68 CE) was the fifth Roman emperor, who reigned from 54 to 68 CE. #History #Seneca #RomanEmperor #Nero #Roman-ParthianWar #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10280-en/

Ashur (also known as Assur) was an Assyrian city located on a plateau above the Tigris River in Mesopotamia (today known as Qal'at Sherqat, al-Shirqat District, northern Iraq). #History #Tukulti-NinurtaI #Assyria #Assur #AshurnasirpalII #Ashur #UNESCO #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-148-en/

Claudius (10 BCE to 54 CE) was the fourth Roman emperor, who reigned from 41 to 54 CE. #History #RomanEmpire #RomanEmperor #RomanBritain #Nero #Claudius #Caligula #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-674-en/