Hippocrates Stories

"Does it really takes a brave heart to face everything?"

This is an era of multiple powers rising: the vast Persian Empire, the military-oriented Sparta, the commercially dominant Athens, the up-and-coming Thebes, the ambitious Macedonia, the two powers of the western Mediterranean, and the newly emerging Rome... This is an era where stars shine brightly: Agesilaus, the last king of Sparta; Epaminondas, the renowned general who propelled Thebes to prominence; Philip, the founding ruler who laid the foundation for Macedonian hegemony; Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse; Camillus, the dictator who saved Rome... This is an era of intellectual discourse: the great philosopher Plato, the founder of the Cynic school Antisthenes, the Pythagorean school with its focus on numbers as divine, the encyclopedic scholar Democritus, the father of Western medicine Hippocrates, the renowned playwright Aristophanes... As the protagonist traverses through reincarnation, arriving in this era as a humble mercenary, what will he bring to this world?

Heidy is currently in the stages of falling into what seems like a euphoric world where she can be single and hangout her friends without it getting weird. Until one day when her friend Andy gets dumped by a mutual friend. Heidy worries about all of her friends as if they were family, and accidentally makes Andy fall for her without even realizing it. She ends up dating this guy. At first it's more distant but as time goes on, and after a few bumps along the road she realizes she's in love with him. The bumps along the way get worse, how will they handle it?

The arms race began in Mesopotamia with the invention of composite bows, light chariots and crossbows. The Persian (Iranian) emperor tried to conquer Athens in 480 BCE but was delayed by the Spartans at Thermopylae while Greek warships destroyed the Persian fleet. The Macedonian ruler, Alexander the Great, completely destroyed the Persian armies by 326 BCE and established the Greek empire. Then, between 600 and 200 BCE, a few hundred Greeks revolutionized science, mathematics, medicine, engineering, history, law and philosophy. Meanwhile, Greeks settlers in Sicily were in conflict with Rome and, by first century BCE, Romans had conquered Greece, Egypt, Carthage and the old Persian empire. Roman traders made large profits using the Silk Road between Rome, China and India and which created higher incomes though out the Roman empire. Roman engineers built more than 80,000 km of roads throughout the empire and 800 km of aqueducts in Rome delivered a million cubic metres of water each day. WHO THE HELL ARE WE? is a series of short books and videos describing the evolution of civilization. Almost everyone on the planet is five times wealthier than their ancestors only 50 years ago. This astonishing phenomenon has also improved health, education, and longevity. The cause; an explosive growth in ideas and productivity. It began when we learned to control fire, evolved articulate speech and stumbled onto the way to create infinite wealth; free trade. The discovery of agriculture made us richer but we also learned how to destroy wealth. Great civilization grew up but then disappeared leaving only incredible ruins and ideas. Later books detail some of the ideas and developments that increased the average life span from about 40 years to more than 80 and the average world income from less than $3 to more than $33 per person per day (and to $140 per day in some countries).