Ancient Asia Minor is a geographic region located in the south-western part of Asia comprising most of what is present-day Turkey. The earliest reference to the region comes from tablets of the Akkadian Dynasty (2334-2083 BCE) where it is known as “The Land of the Hatti” and was inhabited by the Hittites. The Hittites themselves referred to the land as "Assuwa" (or, earlier, Aswiya) which actually only designated the area around the delta of the river Cayster in Lydia but came to be applied to the entire region. Assuwa is considered the Bronze Age origin for the name `Asia' as the Romans later designated the area. It was called, by the Greeks, “Anatolia” (literally, 'place of the rising sun’, for those lands to the east of Greece).
The American colonies were a safe place for the migration of smaller religious groups during the 17th and 18th centuries. In Europe, the Catholic Church was still strong, though it was on a decline gradually, and the religious problems in Europe were between the Catholics and every other smaller Christian branch. In the American colonies though, the Catholic Church didn't really had any political power. This meant that the people that had problems in Europe because of their religion were free to go to the American colonies, practice their religion, and have no worries of persecutions and conflicts. And so it was, numerous small religious groups moved into the American colonies, settled in places where there was still no European population, at least in most cases, and formed their own communities.
The phonograph and radio were two inventions that helped jazz reach even remote locations in the United States.
Phonograph technology had been invented in the late 1800s, and sales of disc records began to be common in the early 1900s.
Radio had been invented by Gabriel Marconi in the 1890s, and by the 1920s was becoming a commercially dominant force. Record sales were impacted by the improved radio technology, but the major record labels were able to continue to sell well until the Depression hit.
<span>The word anthropology itself tells us it is the field that seeks to understand humankind, from the beginnings millions of years ago up to the present day.</span>
