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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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• 2012-06-15-Conversations with Monjoronson 52
  ...fluence on this planet for tens of thousands of years. There are ancient, ancient civilizations which are technologically so advanced that they have the capa MMc: So all my television programs with ancient aliens helping the production of the pyramids and Mayan temples is perhaps
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• Chosen People
  ...personal]] [[God]]. Although not unknown among certain religious groups in ancient [[Greece]] and [[India]], it has had particular significance in [[Judaism]] ...freedom. Paul does not deny that the Jews remain chosen by God. Indeed, in Romans 11:29 he states that the "gifts and the call of God are irrevocable." Yet P
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• Paper 71 - Development of the State
  ...hite man], who was pursuing the governmental methods of the Greeks and the Romans. 71:5.3 Throughout the [[Ancient|earlier]] ages of any world, [[competition]] is [[essential]] to [[progress
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• Perfection
  ...6th-century writer Joseph Juste Scaliger, and they in turn referred to the ancient philosopher Empedocles. Their argument, as given by the first two, was that "Perfect numbers" have been distinguished ever since the ancient Greeks called them "teleioi." There was, however, no consensus among the Gr
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• 2014-10-20-New Era Conversations 32
  ...lows. You will see the beginning of your societies moving from this, your ancient patterns of violence, into the very earliest stages of peaceful relationshi ...fevers, viruses caused by importation from other places in the world. The Romans have suffered from hemorrhagic fevers, and so on, and so have other populat
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• Book of Maccabees, 1
  Now Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they were very strong and were well-disposed toward all who made an a ...the Greeks and attacked them. Many of them were wounded and fell, and the Romans took captive their wives and children; they plundered them, conquered the l
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• Shelling's and Bakhtin's Process Thinking
  ...is in a way like the two-faced Janus, (an ancient Italian, regarded by the Romans as presiding over doors and gates, over beginnings and endings, and represe
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• Atheism
  In early [[Ancient Greek]], the adjective ''atheos'' (ἄθεος|ἄθεος, from the privat ...] (such as Thomas Paine) and even [[polytheists]]; conversely, the ancient Romans accused Christians of being atheists for not worshipping the pagan deities.
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• Free Will
  ...el unto honour, and another unto dishonour?"<ref>St. Paul, "Epistle to the Romans", 9:21, ''King James Bible'' Tennessee:The Gideons International</ref> In t ...uddhist philosophical strategy is to examine the metaphysics of causality. Ancient India had many heated arguments about the nature of [[causality]] with [[Ja
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• 2013-07-05-ABC Summaries, Document O
  know any better, and thus these souls are judged in the courts of the Ancient of Days with great was guarded by the Jews and romans to prevent people from entering it.
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