Prince Siddhartha Gautama Prince Siddhartha Gautama was the scion of a family of warrior-kings in northern India. He was being indoctrinated for the time when he would assume his father’s throne. Growing up in an atmosphere of opulence, the young prince was constantly shielded from the cruel realities of the world. An army of obsequious servants and tutors catered to his every desire providing Siddhartha with instruction in riding, fencing, dancing, and painting-while lavishing fulsome praise upon him. It wasn’t until the prince was thirty that he took the first step that led to his becoming the Buddha, one of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders.
Leonidas Leonidas was born around 520 B.C. to King Anaxandridas II, a son of Hercules. Anaxandridas had two wives therefore Leonidas had an older half-brother, Cleomenes, along with his other brother Dorieus and younger brother Cleombrotus I. Cleomenes was thought to succeed Anaxandridas’ throne after his death because he was the firstborn but, he was son of his second wife so his claim to the throne was not entirely genuine. The throne should’ve gone to Dorieus as Anaxandridas’ eldest son by his first marriage but, was held off until further thought. It is not certain why Cleomenes supported Dorieus in several foreign expeditions.
King Tutankhamen HUM 111 July 20, 2012 King Tutankhamen, better known as King Tut was the youngest pharaoh at the age of eight. Being that he was so young he only ruled for a short period of time and died at the age of eight-teen. Howard Carter excavated King Tut tomb in 1922 (Lovgren, 2006). Scientist is very curious and fascinated with the mystery behind the death of the famous Pharaoh in history. The scientists now have looked at King Tut corpse to try to figure out if he died because he was murdered or from an injury.
Sundiata uses many methods to gain his power such as using the foretold to ensure his status, building the alliances with other princes and other kings and building his own army. After he gained his power, he also has his own way to maintain it. All of his methods led a great ending of his life. In Sundiata’s story, even before his birth, he is destined to become a great king. The traveler prophesied the greatest heir to the throne would be born from an ugly woman.
According to his autobiography, he was the first to use two turntables and a microphone at the Grand Records Ball at the Guardbridge Hotel in 1947. [22] It was billed as 'Jimmy Savile introducing Juke Box Doubles'. Savile is acknowledged as a pioneer of using twin turntables for continuous music playing,[23] although his claim to have been the first is disputed (twin turntables were illustrated in the BBC Handbook in 1929 and advertised for sale in Gramophone magazine in
Owain Glyndwr Owain Glyndwr was the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales. He was born in 1359 into a powerful family of the Anglo-Welsh nobility, during a time of relative peace between the tribes of Wales and the English aristocracy. It is thought that his father died sometime before Owain was 11 years old, and the young prince was fostered to the household of Sir David Hanmer, an Anglo-Welsh judge He married Hanmer's daughter, Margaret, in 1383 In 1384, military service called Owain, and he enlisted under Sir Gregory Sais in the Marches area, the border country of England and Wales. In 1385 he enlisted under the Earl Of Arundel, fighting for King Richard II. Until the last decade of the 14th century, Owain Glyndwr was a man of the March, having
The novel, The Great Gatsby, was influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald's life in mainly three characteristics of the book. The life of Jay Gatsby and Fitzgerald's were similar in many ways; from being raised not by the richest family, dropping out of school and joining the army. Daisy was reflected to F. Scott Fitzergerald's wife Zelda in this novel also. Gatsby is a part of Fitzgerald; he gave Gatsby a life he saw in people around him and where he
They founded modern mathematics. 05. In the Code of Hammurabi, they invented the first legal system that protects the weak, the widow & the orphan. 06. Five thousand years ago, they had philosphers who attempted to list every known thing in the world.
It’s funny how we (the people) don’t really notice how society affects us therefore we make choices based off what society expects from us. Some choices you do have control over and for others you don’t. For instance, I was born into a lower middle class house hold. My whole family was born in El Salvador except for me. My father who came from a high upper middle class was the first to come to the states (Los Angeles, California) in 1982 because of the Salvadorian War that lasted from 1879-1990.
The fifth era is the Babylonian Era and Exile (605 – 538 BC). In 600, the Temple of Artemis was built in Ephesus. Judah (Southern Kingdom) fell to Babylon in 586. In 563, the founder of Buddhism (Gautama Buddha) was born in India. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon died in 562.