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  ...eveloped by the [[ancient]] Chinese, the ancient [[Greeks]], and ancient [[Romans]]. Modern archival thinking has many roots in the French Revolution. The [[
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• Imperium
  In [[ancient Rome]], imperium could be used as a term indicating a characteristic of peo ...e capital of the world and Frederick was to become the real emperor of the Romans, so he energetically protested against the world-empire of the pope. The em
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• Roman law
  ...broader sense, one may say that Roman law is not only the legal system of ancient Rome but the law that was applied throughout most of Europe until the end o ...ssed. It is unlikely that an official delegation was sent to Greece as the Romans believed, instead, it is suggested that Greek legislations were acquired fr
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• Paper 85 - The Origins of Worship
  ...of thirty; among the red men it was usually a [[circle]] of stones. The [[Romans]] always threw a stone into the air when invoking [https://en.wikipedia.org ...[superstitious]] [[practice]] of rapping on wood perpetuate certain of the ancient [[customs]] of tree worship and the later-day tree cults.
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• Euthanasia
  ...dvice which may cause his death.”[11] Despite this, the ancient Greeks and Romans generally did not believe that life needed to be preserved at any cost and ...of [[pleasure]] lures--this introduces a new factor into racial survival; ancient man exposed undesired children to die; moderns refuse to bear them.[https:/
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• Paper 83 - The Marriage Institution
  ...ng of the bride over the [[threshold]] is reminiscent of a [[number]] of [[ancient]] [[practices]], among others, of the days of [[wife]] [https://en.wikipedi 83:4.8 One of the most [[ancient]] forms of the wedding [[ceremony]] was to have a [[priest]] [[bless]] the
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• Paper 89 - Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement
  ...boos]], all [[expressed]] in the same [[negative]] form as were the most [[ancient]] prohibitions. But these newer codes were truly emancipating in that they 89:1.6 [[Methods]] of eating soon became taboo, and so originated [[ancient]] and [[modern]] table [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette etiquette].
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• Communication
  ...h artificial channels, i.e. not [[vocalization]] or gestures, goes back to ancient [[cave paintings]], drawn maps, and [[writing]]. Our indebtedness to the [[Ancient Romans]] in the field of communication does not end with the Latin root "communica
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• Paper 87 - The Ghost Cults
  ...d. [[Property]] [[sacrifices]] were also made by burning or [[burying]]. [[Ancient]] funeral wastes were enormous. Later races made [[paper]] models and subst ...ere [[dedicated]] to some sort of [[ceremony]] [[associated]] with these [[ancient]] [[cults]]. One Roman emperor tried to reform these [[practices]] by reduc
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• Prophet
  ...e [[Sibyl|Sybilline]] and [[Oracle of Delphi#Oracle|Delphic Oracles]] in [[Ancient Greece]], the [[Völuspá]] in [[Old Norse]], [[Zoroaster]] in [[Persia]], ...vi is ro'eh, ראה, which literally means "[[See]]r". That could document an ancient shift, from viewing prophets as seers for hire to viewing them as moral tea
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• Democracy
  ...is people who rule the government directly.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/greekdemocracy_01.shtml] ...tures have significantly contributed to the evolution of democracy such as Ancient India. [https://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/histdem/ind
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• Novel
  ...romances of [[Heliodorus of Emesa|Heliodorus]] and [[Longus]] et al.). The ancient Greek romance was revived by [[Byzantine novel]]ists of the twelfth century ...fficult to determine how much the early "romance" owed to [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] models and how much to northern folkloric verse epics such as [[Beo
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• Sacrifice
  ...[Greek]]s and [[Roman]]s (particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio) , Ancient Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis )and from the Aztecs to the Yoru Human sacrifice was practiced by many ancient cultures. People would be [[ritual]]ly killed in a [[manner]] that was supp
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• Books
  ...o the desire of humans to create lasting records. Stones could be the most ancient form of writing, but wood would be the first medium to take the guise of a Romans used wax-coated wooden tablets (pugillares) upon which they could write and
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• Romance
  ...[[Claude Levi-Strauss]] show that there were complex forms of courtship in ancient as well as contemporary primitive societies. But there may not be evidence ...s of the Latin origin "Romanicus", meaning "of the Roman style", "like the Romans". The connecting notion is that European medieval vernacular tales were usu
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• 2014-01-16-Freedom to Choose
  ...of all the leaders to set their egos and their pride and all that ancient, ancient history aside, and think about the men and women and children under those n ...Father not being a respecter of persons, especially the hated and despised Romans. This was something so many could not begin to credit. So many who heard me
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• Paper 195 - After Pentecost
  ...ed]] it, and that it was the [[Greeks]] who [[literally]] [[forced]] the [[Romans]] subsequently to [[accept]] this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_religi 195:2.1 The [[Romans]] bodily took over [[Greek]] [[culture]], putting [[representative]] [[gove
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• Peace
  ...peace and the very word itself originated among the [[Ancient Rome|ancient Romans]] who defined peace, ''pax'', as ''absentia belli'', the absence of [[war]]
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• Paper 98 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident
  ...les. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history#Classical_Antiquity ancient times] the [[Jews]] were famed as much for [[military]] [[valor]] as for [[ ...ers, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynics Cynics], who exhorted the [[Romans]] to abandon their wild and senseless [[religious]] [[rituals]] and return
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• Real Presences
  story. Nonetheless, this shape is set by the most remarkable of ancient [[Hebrew]] [[text]]s for any reader text, which contains some of the most ancient strands of Hebrew creational thought, we find
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