Category Archives: west asia

Ethnonyms, Exonyms and Endonyms

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Rashid Faridi

An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used by the ethnic group itself). For … Continue reading →

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Culture and Ideas Disseminate through Trade Routes

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Rashid Faridi

Trade routes and roads in general played a significant role in the dissemination of culture and ideas across different regions of the world. The Silk Road, for instance, was an extensive network of ancient trade routes that connected East Asia with the … Continue reading →

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RAWLINSON :Pioneer Reader of Cuneiform and Assyriology

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Rashid Faridi

Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet GCB was an English soldier, diplomat and orientalist. He is sometimes referred to as the “Father of Assyriology.” Knowledge of cuneiform was lost until 1835 when Henry Rawlinson, a British East India Company army … Continue reading →

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Early Roads : History of Transport

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Rashid Faridi

In early times roads were used for transporting people and goods. People walked or used animals. Roads were tracks or traces that often used or paralleled game trails. Roads also were and are careers of ideas. One example that still … Continue reading →