Tag: World history

  • 9 – Three Big Ideas of Asian History

    9 – Three Big Ideas of Asian History

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    by ProfDave, ©2022 (Apr. 5, 2022) — [Editor’s Note: Please see the previous installments in this series here.] We are attempting to absorb the whole of Asian experience in the middle period of history, about 300 to 1500 AD – with flashbacks to centuries before the “Common Era.”  If you are not on information overload,…

  • The Rise of Christianity

    The Rise of Christianity

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    by ProfDave, ©2022  (Mar. 15, 2022) — 1278 years after the legendary founding of Rome, the British monk Dionysis Exiguus devised a dating system based on the conception [“incarnation”] of Jesus of Nazareth (± 4-6 years).  Instead of using the brief reigns of earthly Kings and Consuls, years after the incarnation would be called “the…