At the heart of the map sits Babylon, positioned as the center of existence. This mirrored how many ancient cultures perceived their own cities—whether Athens, Jerusalem, or Rome—as the focal ...

The Wars of Alexander's successors, were a series of conflicts that erupted among the generals of Alexander the Great.

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia So, ancient Greeks living in Sparta considered themselves ...