Quotes About History

Mycenaean traders at the time were exchanging goods all over the Mediterranean.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

War leaves a legacy of human suffering that does not end with peace.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

This is from an Indian comedian named Charlie Hill: "They say Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean. My people were living here for hundreds and hundreds of years. We never noticed it? "One day the chief took his son to the top of a mountain. As they looked out over the hills and valleys, he spread his arms wide and said, 'Son, someday none of this will be yours.

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval Europe, that prohibition was effectively a rule of universal abolition.

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.

In fact, all known societies above the very primitive level have been slave societies—even many of the Northwest American Indian tribes had slaves long before Columbus's voyage.46 Amid this universal slavery, only one civilization ever rejected human bondage: Christendom. And it did it twice!

Now, shouts of "Dieu li volt!" (God wills it!) began to spread through the crowd, and men began to cut up cloaks and other pieces of cloth to make crosses and sew them against their chests. Everyone agreed that the next year they would set out for the Holy Land. And they did.

The truth is that science arose only because the doctrine of the rational creator of a rational universe made scientific inquiry plausible. Similarly, the idea of progress was inherent in Jewish conceptions of history and was central to Christian thought from very early days.

El crimen pasional es mexicano de nacimiento.

Según sus informes, más de cien mil personas fueron muertas por miembros del ejército guatemalteco entre 1960 y 1996, y unas diez mil por miembros de los varios grupos guerrilleros en el mismo periodo».

La supuesta gran transformación que López Obrador equipara a las ocurridas con la Independencia, la Reforma y la Revolución es en realidad algo así como el parto de los montes, insignificante como cambio pero donde el estridente chillido del ratoncito provoca fuertes efectos desorganizadores.

Algo similar ocurre con líderes populistas que pretenden encarnar a grandes personajes de la historia, como a Simón Bolívar o a Benito Juárez. No son más que una farsa que repite grandes acontecimientos en forma grotesca. Muchas veces la repetición ocurre como una bufonada desastrosa. Es lo que ocurrió en Venezuela con Hugo Chávez y lo que está pasando en México con López Obrador.

en nuestro contorno coexisten culturas, hábitos e ideas incongruentes entre sí, que parecen provenir de visiones muy diferentes del pasado y del futuro.

Predomina allí un espíritu restaurador que sueña con volver al priismo de los años sesenta y setenta.

En México están volviendo a soplar con fuerza los viejos vientos del nacionalismo autoritario.

The liberators were not liberators. They were other occupiers. When

War was not dependent on personal volition; it was an unceasing imperial project, authorized by Islam.

Of all Ottoman innovations none was perhaps more significant than the creation of a regular army.

Perhaps no defensive structure summarized the truth of siege warfare in the ancient and medieval world as clearly as the walls of Constantinople. The city lived under siege for almost all its life; its defenses reflected the deepest character and history of the place, its mixture of confidence and fatalism, divine inspiration and practical skill, longevity and conservatism.

Constantinople was the first European city to experience the Black Death:

After 350 years the defeat at Varna extinguished the appetite in the West for crusading; never again would Christendom unite to try to drive the Muslims out of Europe.