Home > Industry/Domain > History
History
The branch of knowledge dealing with past events.
21Categories 73511Terms
Add a new termContributors in History
History > Ancient Greece
Sophocles
History; Ancient Greece
Important tragic dramatist of Athens who was active from 468 to 406 BC. Sophocles is remembered for the intensity of his tragedies, in which flawed personalities are confronted by ...
Aristophanes
History; Ancient Greece
Lived from about 450 to 385 BC. He wrote comedy plays comedies for the theatre in Athens.
Athens
History; Ancient Greece
The capital city of modern Greece. In ancient times Athens was a powerful city-state with its own government, laws, army and navy.
Delphi
History; Ancient Greece
A city to the west of Athens, with the famous Oracle of Delphi. People went to consult the Oracle for advice from the gods.
democracy
History; Ancient Greece
A system of government in which citizens can vote to decide things. Athens had democracy from 510 BC.
discus
History; Ancient Greece
Flat dish-shaped object thrown by an athlete, a bit like a Frisbee only smaller and heavier.
Sub-categories
- African history (167)
- American history (11637)
- Ancient Greece (1996)
- Ancient history (2227)
- Ancient Rome (2217)
- British history (1076)
- Chinese history (2505)
- Egyptian history (4124)
- European history (2633)
- Extinct languages (14)
- French history (1127)
- Indian history (0)
- Israeli history (1566)
- Medical history (39)
- Medieval (11866)
- Middle eastern history (205)
- Nazi Germany (449)
- Renaissance (24)
- Roman gods (377)
- Spanish history (74)
- World history (29475)