The legend of Theseus and the Minotaur suggests that Athens had dealings with Crete during the Minoan and Mycenaean Ages.

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A Spartan child was examined at birth. A healthy infant was allowed to live. Weaklings were not wanted. They were

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This striking difference in the way Athens and Sparta treated their victorious athletes reflects a striking difference between the states

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CHRISTIANITY, as the official religion of Byzantium‚ was under the control of the government. The emperor was the head of

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THE LONG struggle between the churches of the East and the West was only one of the many serious problems

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THE BEGINNINGS of Russian history date back to the centuries when Byzantium was at the height of its glory. A

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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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