Enthralling History > Quotes

“This was, however, over twenty million years ago.”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“Not only did it severely destroy the massive”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“modern Japan, one can easily see a Shinto shrine placed side by side with Buddhist temples.”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“Thousands of Persians died that day, while the Greeks lost only around two hundred.”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“Some even claimed that the queen was, in fact, a direct descendant of the Shinto sun goddess, Amaterasu,”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“Three years after his discovery, Tadahiro once again found a fragment of a stone artifact;”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“Cheiron”
― Enthralling History, Greek Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Greek Myths, Gods, and Goddesses

“These foreign cultures then blended with the Japanese traditional cultures, resulting in the Asuka culture.”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“watching his father suffer humiliation at the hands of the proud Greeks at Marathon,”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“including veto power over the Spartan Assembly (the Apella).”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“The people’s debts had been annulled. The king was lauded for fulfilling his promise,”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“When one of Japan’s biggest conflicts, the Genpei War, exploded in 1180, the statue was once again destroyed.”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“Thermopylae, a narrow, mountainous pass on the east coast of central Greece,”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“and house the sacred mirror. This was the same mirror used by the ancient”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“Shinto beliefs, kami can be anything, such as the forces of nature or the spirits of dead ancestors”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“When speaking of Buddhism and its religious practices, many would immediately think of meditation, karma, reincarnation,”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“The perpetrator would either be half-buried in the ground before being stoned to death”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“the handless ax, which was possibly used to chop wood.”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“Shinto’s underworld is called Yomi, but unlike hell, it is not a place where the deceased face their mistakes”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“The Olympic Games were also taking place, during which military activity was forbidden.”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“Izanami and Izanagi are a pair of gods often associated by the Japanese as the creators of their archipelago.”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“many Japanese who strongly believed in Shintoism held a protest.”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“It is also not heaven; rather, it is merely a place where the dead carry on.”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“The Spartan king’s legendary reply was just as brief: “Come and take them.”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“The size of Xerxes’s army has been speculated as having between a hundred thousand and three million men”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“Also, the ephors and gerontes moderated every meeting of the Apella.”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“An important distinction between the slaves in other parts of the world”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army

“a ritualistic practice that involves the removal of a person’s healthy teeth. This ritual first took place during the Late Jomon period,”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“The shape is as exquisite as ever, and not a single color has faded.”
― Enthralling History, Ancient Japan: An Enthralling Overview of Ancient Japanese History, Starting from the Jomon Period to the Heian Period

“Centuries after the First Messenian War, the Messenian helots were no longer slaves.”
― Enthralling History, Sparta: An Enthralling Overview of the Spartans and Their City-State in Ancient Greece along with the Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, and Other ... Spartan Army