What is the basis of the historical context?The study of history in itself suggests that we are trying to look into the origins of any event.Questions about what a base, we can often be set in the period of the study just any historical process.The object of this study can be anything: the city, the state, the royal dynasty, public services, or even individual buildings.Everything has a beginning and creation of preconditions.However, in respect of significant structures created by human hands, it is usually referred to as the beginning of the base.This is due primarily to the fact that the creation of such a structure (here and below as an example it will be city) little simultaneous act.It also calls for its development and approval.And only the formal establishment of the time, provoked by a man called the base.
What is the basis?Folk tales
Moreover, a foundation of the city can have its own characteristics.For example, in the case of many ancient and medieval cities documented history of their original existence is lost.And their base is described by a beautiful legend.Sparta, Athens, Babylon, Rome has its patrons, which is associated with the name of the beginning of the city.Thus, the foundation of Rome describes the legend of the two brothers, Romulus and Remus, who, after their grandfather deposed from the throne of Alba Longa, were put on the river Tiber.Shopping with children at the land of the future Rome.Surviving infants helped the wolf, which later became the symbol of the city.And later they found the shepherd Faustulus, raise children.Adults Romulus and Remus returned to Alba Longa and justice.And later burned the idea to establish a new settlement on the banks of the Tiber.However, a dispute arose between them, which one is most suitable hill for that.In the heated debate Romulus killed Remus, but afterward he repented of their deed, named the town in honor of his brother.
Similar stories have many of the ancient city.According to legend, the birth of Kiev predicted Andrew, who, after preaching at Sinope and Trebizond returned to Rome on the Dnieper River, and stopped for the night near the hilly banks, simultaneously predicting that there are gold-domed city.
What is the basis?Research
However, there are other examples of cities whose history is known for certain.So, the foundation of St. Petersburg had been a period close to the date, a new history.At that time, when it was decided to create cities celebrate on paper their early days, to publish government documents governing the status of settlements (construction of a frontier fortress it or the city itself) and so on.Because the creation of the St. Petersburg has a precise and unquestionable date: it is known that the first stone of the fortress was laid May 16, 1703.And a designated date has many cities created during the already established modern documentation of events and writing stories.Although it should be clarified that the date of the foundations of many cities is often in discussions of local lore.Again, due to the fact that this foundation has not a momentary act.So, the beginning of the city of Kharkiv has a few dates from the construction of the first fort stockade to the king's decree on conferring the rights of the city.The history of the ancient cities mentioned above is also subject to research.It is, however, more care area archaeologists can the nature of artifacts and depth of the soil in which they are found, to determine the date of the first settlements of up to fifty years, and sometimes decades.
