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Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian cuneiform script.
Chueca Goitia, Fernando Historia de la Arquitectura Española, Edad Antigua y Media Editorial DOSSAT, 1965. Chapter: El primer arte románico. pp. 148–156. ISBN 84-923918-4-7; Chueca Goitia, Fernando Historia de la Arquitectura occidental: Edad Media cristiana en España Ed. DOSSAT, 2000. ISBN 84-95312-35-2
The Early Dynastic Period, also known as Archaic Period or the Thinite Period (from Thinis, the hometown of its rulers), [1] is the era of ancient Egypt that immediately follows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in c. 3150 BC.
The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1180–800 BC) were earlier regarded as two continuous periods of Greek history: the Postpalatial Bronze Age (c. 1180–1050 BC) [1] and the Prehistoric Iron Age or Early Iron Age (c. 1050–800 BC).
Legio VI Victrix ("Victorious Sixth Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in 41 BC by the general Octavian (who, as Augustus, later became Rome's first emperor).
Map showing ancient Thessaly. Spalathra is shown to the far right on the Pagasetic Gulf. Spalathra (Ancient Greek: Σπάλαθρα) [1] or Spalauthra (Σπάλαυθρα), [2] also called Spalethre (Σπαλέθρη) [3] and Spalathron (Σπάλαθρον), [3] was a town and polis (city-state) [4] of Magnesia, in ancient Thessaly, upon the Pagasetic Gulf.
The Cantabrian Wars (29–19 BC) (Bellum Cantabricum), sometimes also referred to as the Cantabrian and Asturian Wars (Bellum Cantabricum et Asturicum), [2] were the final stage of the two-century long Roman conquest of Hispania, in what today are the provinces of Cantabria, Asturias and León in northwestern Spain.
Location of Viadangos in the 12th century. The Battle of Viadangos or Fontedangos (Fonte de Angos) was fought in the autumn of 1111 between the forces of Alfonso I of Aragon and the Galician allies of his estranged wife, Urraca of León and Castile, at Villadangos north of Luna, some twenty kilometres from León.