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![Maya Government](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/758.jpg?v=1708702563)
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Maya Government
Ancient Maya government was formed on the basis that rulers were thought to have been god-like, which to some might suggest one unified state. However, the consensus amongst anthropologists supports that each major Maya city remained its...
![The Classic Maya Collapse](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/759.jpg?v=1699638123)
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The Classic Maya Collapse
The Mesoamerican Terminal Classic period (c. 800-925) saw one of the most dramatic civilization collapses in history. Within a century or so the flourishing Classic Maya civilization fell into a permanent decline when once-great cities were...
![Pausanias' Description of Greece Map](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7228.jpg?v=1689607373)
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Pausanias' Description of Greece Map
Map epicting locations described in Pausanias' Description of Greece, as found in the version translated and with a commentary by J. G. Frazer. Photograph by the British Library.
![Pausanias' locations in his Description of Greece](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7225.png?v=1708754643)
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Pausanias' locations in his Description of Greece
Map based on Description of Greece by Pausanias. The map shows which parts of Greece each book in the work describes.
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Pausanias' Description of Greece
Manuscript of Pausanias' Description of Greece at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, Italy, dating from 1485.
![Mitla](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3677.jpg?v=1620412203)
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Mitla
Mitla, located in the eastern portion of the Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, was an important site of the Zapotec civilization. Gaining prominence from the early Post-Classic period (c. 700-900 CE), Mitla became the most important Zapotec...
![Interrelations of Kerma and Pharaonic Egypt](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1111.jpg?v=1699640886)
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Interrelations of Kerma and Pharaonic Egypt
The vacillating nature of Ancient Egypt's associations with the Kingdom of Kerma may be described as one of expansion and contraction; a virtual tug-of-war between rival cultures. Structural changes in Egypt's administration led to alternating...
![Interview: Preclassic Maya](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/8624.jpg?v=1708702569)
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Interview: Preclassic Maya
The genesis of Maya civilization in Mesoamerica was marked by an effervescence in the arts, the beginnings of their written language with glyphs, and a great attention to detail in the sphere of urban planning. Yet, despite these tremendous...
![Ancient Greece](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14624.png?v=1713460383)
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Ancient Greece
Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, known in Greek as Hellas or Ellada, and consisting of a mainland and an archipelago of islands. Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle), literature...
![Thebes (Greece)](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/329.jpg?v=1708754703)
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Thebes (Greece)
Thebes is a town in central Greece which has been continuously inhabited for five millennia. It was an important Mycenaean centre in the middle to late Bronze Age and was a powerful city-state in the Classical period, participating in both...