The nomadic Inuit people were traditionally shamanistic, with a well-developed mythology primarily concerned with appeasing a vengeful and fingerless sea goddess who controlled the success of the seal ...
Greenland today is dependent on fishing and fish exports. The shrimp and fish industry is by far the largest income earner. Despite resumption of several hydrocarbon and mineral exploration activities ...
It was the early Scandinavian settlers who gave the country the name Greenland. In the Icelandic sagas, it is said that the Norwegian-born Icelander Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for manslaught ...
Erik the Red's father was banished from Norway for the crime of manslaughter. He sailed West from Norway with his family and settled in Hornstrandir in northwestern Iceland. The Icelanders later sente ...
Led by the operas of German composer Richard Wagner, such as Der Ring des Nibelungen, Vikings and the Romanticist Viking Revival have inspired many creative works. These have included novels directly ...
The Viking peoples could read and write and used a non-standardized alphabet, called runor, built upon sound values. While there are few remains of runic writing on paper from the Viking era, thousand ...
The Old Norse feminine noun víking refers to an expedition overseas. It occurs in Viking Age runic inscriptions and in later medieval writings in set expressions such as the phrasal verb fara í vík ...
Further information: Parthian artA barrel vaulted iwan at the entrance at the ancient site of Hatra, modern-day Iraq, built c. 50 ADParthian art can be divided into three geo-historical phases: the ar ...
Further information: Pax RomanaFollowing the defeat of Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, Octavian consolidated his political power and in 27 BC was named Augustus by the Roman Senate, becoming ...
Origins and establishment Two sides of a silver coin. The one on the left bears the imprint of a man's head, while the one on the right a sitting individual.The silver drachma of Arsaces I of Parthia ...
Punjab, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, and Chandigarh are the states and the union territories of the region.Languages The region has more than nine languages and sub-languages like Dogri, Rajasthani, Guj ...
Accounts of the Indus valley from the times of Alexander's campaign indicate a healthy forest cover in the region, which has now considerably receded. The Mughal Emperor Babur writes of encountering r ...
The word "Indus" is the romanised form of the ancient Greek word "Indós" (?νδ??), borrowed from the old Persian word "Hindu?", which in turn was derived from the Sanskrit word "Sindhu" (??? ...
Concurrently, and possibly during or after his Indian campaigns, Eucratides' Bactria was attacked and defeated by the Parthian king Mithridates I, possibly in alliance with partisans of the Euthydemid ...
Independence (around 250 BC) Gold coin of Diodotus c. 245 BC. The Greek inscription reads: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥ – "(of) King Diodotus".Diodotus, the satrap of Bactria (and probably the s ...
