Suppressed Antiquity: Persia

Anyone interested in Ancient History has heard or read something about Persia. It was an enormous and powerful empire: Achaemenids, Cyrus, Persepolis, Darius, Battle of Thermopylae, Xerxes’ failed attempt to conquer southern Greece. An empire to which Alexander the Great dealt blow after blow and finally defeated and replaced with his own empire: the battles …

The West: a Retrospect

A Retrospective Glance through the Eyes of a Chinese Citizen The West, what was that again? It dominated the world for centuries, especially in the second half of the twentieth century, and now we hardly hear about it anymore. The Orient, which was much older, was an extremely vague concept, barely existing outside the minds of …