Not everyone approved of this policy. The country people, whose farms were being devastated every year by the invading Spartans,

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Cruelty showed itself only two years after Pericles was dead. In 428, after the usual spring invasion by the Spartans

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Before Pericles dies, the morale in Athens was low. For the second year in succession the Spartans had been allowed

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ALL THAT is known about Jesus of Nazareth appears in the first four books of the New Testament. These books,

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JESUS lived and died a Jew. Like the ancient Hebrew teachers, he urged people to love God and to love

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THERE was one man who had more to do with the future of the Christian church than even the apostles

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Notre-Dame, Palace of the Virgin, with its clusters of columns, its soaring arches, its superb stone carvings and its matchless

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Richard I, the Lion Heart, fails to capture Jerusalem from the Saracens. The birth of the New Byzantium The first

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Fall of Constantinople begins – the crusaders from the West had taken an oath to free the Holy Land from

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