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Achaean League
Confederacy in ancient Greece.

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AD
Stands for anno Domini, which is Latin for In the year of the Lord. BC stands for before Christ. More accurate and religiously neutral are the terms BCE (before the Common Era) and CE (Common Era.) However, we're using AD and BC on this website because these terms are probably more familiar.




 

Aetolian League
Alliance in ancient Greece.

MORE ABOUT THE AETOLIAN LEAGUE




 

Albion 

PronouncE ALBION

Ancient Greeks didn't call it Britain. They called it Albion. The name for Ireland was Ierne.

It was probably the Gauls or the  Celts who came up with the name Albion.

Sir Francis Drake called the area around San Francisco New Albion.


MAP OF NEW ALBION - 1820
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Amphictyony
In ancient Greece, an amphictyony was a coalition of neighboring states formed to defend a shared religious center.

Pronounce AMPHICTYONY

Greece 700 BC
AMPHICTYONIES IN ANCIENT GREECE
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Such union was the Delian Amphictyony, with its center on the island of Delos, and the Delphic Amphictyony, with its headquarters in the ancient town of Delphi.

The English word amphictyony stems from the Greek word amphiktiones, meaning neighbors.




 

Ancien Régime
France before 1787.

See also GLOSSARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: ANCIEN RÉGIME




 

Archaeology
Digging for ancient history as a profession.

MORE ABOUT ARCHAEOLOGY




 

Armada

A fleet of ships, esp. warships.

Spanish King Philip II's Invincible Armada sailed from Lisbon to invade England in 1588.

More about the Spanish Armada




 

Arthur
In full,
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

MORE ABOUT KING ARTHUR




 

Atlanta Compromise
Booker T. Washington's take on how to achieve equal rights for African Americans.

MORE ABOUT THE ATLANTA COMPROMISE






 

 

 

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Famous Speeches in History
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Attila the Hun
More about the greatest of all Barbarian rulers:

Attila short biography
Map of Attila's empire
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
Who were the Huns?
 


Greco-Persian Wars
Also called the Persian Wars, the Greco-Persian Wars were fought for almost half a century from 492 to 449 BC. Greece won against enormous odds. Here is more:

Battle of Marathon
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Plataea


 


HISTORY

Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution


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Timelines of the Mexican Revolution

Mexico's transition from dictatorship to constitutional republic translated into ten messy years of skirmishing in Mexican history.

More from the Mexican Revolution:

Pancho Villa

Emiliano Zapata

Francisco I. Madero

Causes of the Mexican Revolution

Women in the Mexican Revolution

Summary of the Mexican Revolution

 

 

 


 

 

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