The Discovery of Gilgamesh's Tomb - The History Files
The 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 ...
A Brief History of India: Aryans - The History Files
Jan 29, 2011 · The word 'arya' meant the 'civilised' or 'respectable' according to general scholarly opinion, probably adopted as a response to neighbouring groups of foragers before any thoughts of outward migration had spread Indo-Europeans across two continents. That branch of Indo-Europeans who became involved in affairs in India became known as Indo ...
Kingdoms of Northern Europe - Angeln (Angles) - The History Files
The 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 ...
A History of Indo-Europeans, Migrations and Language - The …
Oct 17, 2015 · A History of Indo-Europeans, Migrations and Language. by Edward Dawson, 17 October 2015. Updated 15 March 2020. Those peoples who are now known as Indo-Europeans (IEs) were the most widely ranging ethnic group in ancient times. Due to their existence on the steppes as cattle and horse raising people, they were quite mobile - a characteristic ...
Kingdoms of Africa - Songhai Empire - The History Files
Za Dynasty in Gao (Songhai Empire)c.AD 1010 - 1275. Za Kusoy was the first Songhai ruler to convert to Islam. He also turned the small kingdom of Gao into a Muslim state. Gao began to attract North African merchants during his reign. Again, towards the end of the dynasty records become sparse. c.1010.
Map of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms AD 700 - The History Files
By AD 700, the Angles and Saxons had conquered and settled much of what was becoming England (Engle-land). The former Britons, their post-Roman civilisation having collapsed to a very large extent, had transformed in just two centuries into the Early Welsh, their language changing considerably to reflect their increasing isolation, even from …
Early Independent Britain AD 400-425 - The History Files
Apr 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.
Kingdoms of Central Europe - Bohemia & Moravia - The History Files
The Great Moravian Kingdom (or empire) was established along the River Morava by the Slavic leader Mojmír. Mojmír's successors expanded it to include Bohemia (today's western Czechia), plus today's Slovakia, the southern Poles and western Pannonia (the later kingdom of Hungary.The kingdom found itself at the crossroads between the Germanic people in the west and Byzantium in the east.
Origins of the Slavs - The History Files
It is generally accepted that the origins of the Slavs lay in the westwards portion of the Indo-European migrations which are encompassed within the Yamnaya horizon. That one statement alone is enough to generate a storm of counter-claims. Trying to narrow down the origins of the Slavs is a risky business, not least because those origins are ...
Kingdoms of the Germanic Tribes - Suevi (Suebi) - The History Files
The 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 ...