The Fourteen Rock Edicts of Ashoka
Asoka, who called himself Piyadasi, “Beloved of the Gods,” was the third king of the Mauryan Dynasty in the region corresponding to northern India, where…
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Asia
The Filial and Luminous Emperor Ching
The “Filial and Luminous Emperor” of the title was the emperor Ching, the sixth emperor of the Han Dynasty who ruled 154–141 BCE. He worked…
Read moreThe Confessions of Lady Nijō
Content Warning: In this document, a woman describes her sexual exploitation and abuse when she was a young teenager. Born into a high-status Japanese aristocratic…
Read moreInscriptions of Darius the Great
Darius I, known as Darius the Great, ruled the Persian Achaemenid Empire from 522 to 486 BCE. Sometime after taking the throne, he had a…
Read moreHow the Jizya is to be Collected and from Whom
The jizya was the annual tax that all Christians and Jews (and some members of other religions) were required to pay to the Muslim governors…
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This is a collection of English translations on this Christian church council, which was the first "Church-wide" council held after the practice of Christianity was…
Read moreContinuation of the Chronicle of Damascus
The Continuation of the Chronicle of Damascus was written by Hamzah ibn al-Quālanisī (c.1071–1160), an educated nobleman who, in his career as an administrator and…
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