Catalog Description: An introduction to the political, social, cultural, and economic events that distinguished Western Civilization from its earliest roots to the Thirty Years’ War (1648). Major topics include Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and Reformation. Emphasis is placed on close readings of primary works, including literary and v...

The article is devoted to the development of real security for fulfillment obligations in Ancient Greece. proves that first form was a possessory pledge. creditor sought obtain possession pledged object. This due underdeveloped archives Greece (unlike countries East), lack land register and encumbrance registry, not sure debtor would alienate property by fraud. genesis sale on condition release...

water has been perfectly respectable in ancient persia. there was some god to preserve and protect the water. among of them anahita was considered the most popular. anahita statues and popularity could be seen by surveys of the iranian ancient art works. no doubt, the most important factor is the permanent presence of anahita comeback to the existence and continuity of mythological and religiou...

Around 700 BCE, a new military formation called the phalanx was established in ancient Greece: a tight column of heavy infantry carrying long spears, or pikes, used in a single prong of attack. Later, in the battle of Marathon described by Herodotus, the Greeks learned the advantages of multipronged attacks, a strategy still used in modern warfare. Is the immune system similar in its approach t...

We present the system architecture of a mobile outdoor augmented reality system for the Archeoguide project. We begin with a short introduction to the project. Then we present the hardware we chose for the mobile system and we describe the system architecture we designed for the software implementation. We conclude this paper with the first results obtained from experiments we made during our t...

Humanity has a long history of exploring the mysteries universe and world, myths were first interpretations origins world natural phenomena by primitive ancestors. Ancient Chinese ancient Greek mythology both arose during childhood in human development, from this stage reflect poetic understanding structure people societies. The myth world's origin mainly includes beginning all things. Famous a...

The Pyrrhonic Sceptics in ancient Greece employed a useful catchword, epoche ('suspension of judgment'), in philosophic argument.' The expression serves admirably to summarise the current state of knowledge concerning the unique retinopathy that affects prematurely born infants. There are renewed, intense debates about pathophysiological mechanisms that may lead to retinopathy of prematurity, a...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com of muscular adaptations presented by athletes from ancient Greece to modern times. Nowadays, muscle mass is indicated as one of the most essential elements in the organic system, once this demonstrated capacity to act as an active endocrine organ, secreting signaling molecules (i.e., myokines), which may alter the function of several systems, such a...

A pneumothorax is defined as the presence of air between visceral and parietal pleura that leads to lung collapse. The term was used in the doctoral thesis of the French physician Itard in 1803, although the presence of an abnormal collection of air and fluid within the chest might have been inferred as early as the fifth century BC by physicians in ancient Greece who practiced the so-called Hi...