History
Ruler of historic kingdoms and client states:
- Kingdom of Israel (c.1050 – 722 BCE)
- Kingdom of Judah (c.931 – 586 BCE)
- Hasmonean dynasty (140 – 37 BCE)
- Herodian Dynasty (37 BCE – 92 CE)
Others:
- Mocking epithet applied to Peter of Castile (1334–1369) by Henry of Trastamara
- In the antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the future figurehead envisaged by the Elders.
Read more about this topic: King Of The Jews
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil. Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news
False history gets written every day
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the lesbian archaeologist watches herself
sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing,
asking the clay all questions but her own.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)