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• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
  '''''[https://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html Internet Ancient History Sourcebook]''''' Collection of online texts from Ancient civilizations such as the Near East, Greek, Roman, and Christian origins.
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• ETANA
  ==[https://www.etana.org/home ETANA Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives]== ...ure]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East ancient Near East]. Funded initially by a planning grant from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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• Orient
  ...ve, vati rises, moves, Avestan ar- to set in motion, move, r naoiti moves, ancient Greek to rise. Opposed, in senses A. 1 , A. 2, B. 2 to OCCIDENT n., OCCIDEN ...ern Europe (i.e. east of the Roman Empire); now usually understood to mean East Asia, or occas. Europe or the Eastern hemisphere, as opposed to North Ameri
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• Levant
  ...lar etymologies are found in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Ancient Greek] Ἀνατολή (cf. Anatolia) and Germanic Morgenland. *1: a. The countries of the East. the High Levant = the far East
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• State religion
  ...ing into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East Ancient Near East] and prehistory. The relation of religious cult and the state was discussed
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• Occident
  ...ons]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East ancient Near East]; later, they grew to the north and west to include Western Europe. ...he Arab importation of both the Ancient and new technology from the Middle East and the [[Orient]] to Renaissance Europe represented “one of the largest
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• Judea
  ...ikipedia.org/wiki/Israelite Israelite] tribe of that name and later of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. It was the name in use in [[English]] throughout history ...moves between [[Mediterranean]] in the west and [[desert]] climate in the east, with a strip of steppe climate in the middle. Major urban areas in the reg
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• Grove
  ...]] landscape and [[cult]] [[practice]] of Celtic, Germanic, ancient Greek, Near Eastern, Roman, and Slavic [[polytheism]], and were also used in India, Jap
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• Semitic
  While the term ''Semite'' means a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples originating in southwestern Asia, inclu *1a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian Akk
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• India
  ...h the Greeks and the Persians extended the name to include all the country east of the Indus. ...ma Burma] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh Bangladesh] to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of [https://en.wikipedia.org
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• Dilmun
  ...that the earlier versions of the [[myth]] sited the Cedar Mountain to the east, in the direction of the rising of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utu Utu], Dilmun is regarded as one of the oldest ancient civilizations in the Middle East. The Sumerians described Dilmun as a paradise [[garden]] in the Epic of Gil
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• Oasis
  ...ek]] ''Ὄασις'' (Herodotus; compare Hellenistic Greek ''Αὔσις'' (Strabo)) < ancient Egyptian ''wḫ'-ṭ''; compare Coptic ''ouahe'' dwelling-place ...]]-day Libya, have at various times been [[vital]] to both North-South and East-West [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Saharan_trade trade in the Sahara
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• Siege
  ...e defenders of city walls. Siege machinery was also a [[tradition]] of the ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_world Greco-Roman world]. During
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• Classics
  ...uring the time known as [[classical antiquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Er ...eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• Critical thinking
  .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method Socratic method] and in the East to ancient India with the Buddhist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalama_sutta kalama
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• Philology
  ...the origins of that language, and so it is often defined as "the study of ancient [[writing|text]]s and languages," although this is a rather narrow view and ...roto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]]. Philology's interest in ancient languages led to the study of what were in the 18th century "exotic" langua
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• Throne
  ...raphy of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East Ancient Near East].
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• Chaldean
  *1.one of an [[ancient]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic Semitic] people that formed the [[ *5.of or belonging to ancient Chaldea.
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• Meander
  ...-day Turkey and known to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks] as Μαίανδρος Maiandros (Latin: Maeander), characterised by The Meander River is located south of Izmir, east of the ancient Greek town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miletus Miletus], now, Milet,
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• Mesopotamia
  ...'Mesopotamia'' comes from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek ancient Greek] root words μέσος (meso) "middle" and ποταμός (potamos) " ...he Great]. In the ''Anabasis'', Mesopotamia was used to designate the land east of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates Euphrates] in north Syria.
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• 81:1 The Cradle of Civilization
  ...Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] still confined by [[mountains]] to the east in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia] and by the expanding [[forests ...rds marked a great forward step in the [[health]] and [[vigor]] of these [[ancient]] peoples.
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• 78:1 Racial and Cultural Distribution
  ...thern shore of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea Caspian Sea] near the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopet_Dag Kopet mountains]. From these t ...opotamia Mesopotamia], near the mouth of the [[rivers]], remnants of the [[ancient]] [[culture]] of the days of [[Dalamatia]]. With the passing [[millenniums]
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• 79:1 The Andites of Turkestan
  ...lesser extent, [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet Tibet] were the [[ancient]] gateways through which these peoples of [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wik ...River Tarim] region was a fertile land; the rainfall was plentiful. To the east the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi Gobi] was an open grassland where th
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• 58:7 The Geologic History Book
  ...tified rock layers], is about one and one-half miles. At some points these ancient rock systems are as much as four miles thick, but many of the layers which ...nds from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania Pennsylvania] and the ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_mountains Adirondack Mountains] o
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• Compass
  ...e compass was [[invented]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_China ancient China] sometime before the 2nd century, and was used for [[navigation]] by
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• Dominate
  ...''Dominate''' was the 'despotic' latter [[phase]] of [[government]] in the ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman Empire] from the conclusi ...ent more [[influenced]] by the veneration of the Eastern [[potentates]] of ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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• Palm Sunday
  In many lands in the ancient [[Near East]], it was customary to cover in some way the [[path]] of someone thought [[ ...13th century. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_Religion ancient Egyptian religion], the palm was carried in [[funeral]] processions and rep
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• Forum
  *1a : the [[marketplace]] or [[public]] place of an ancient [[Roman]] [[city]] forming the [[center]] of [[judicial]] and [[public]] [[ ...ally located at, or just off, the intersection of the main north-south and east-west streets (the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardo Cardo] and [https://
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• Celt
  ...f lands: as far west as [[Ireland]] and the [[Iberian Peninsula]], as far east as Galatia (central [[Anatolia]]), and as far north as [[Scotland]]. * Cunliffe, Barry. ''The Ancient Celts.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-815010-5.
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• 78:5 The Andite Migrations
  ...=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] as a race in Mesopotamia proper until near the beginning of the terminal [[migrations]] of the mixed descendants of [[ ...Europe, India, and the upper stretches of the Mesopotamian plains. This [[ancient]] [[language]] gave the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental]
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• Autumn
  ...arts on or around 8 August and ends on about 7 November in [[traditional]] East Asian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_term solar term]. ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Calendar Irish Calendar] which is based on ancient [[Celtic]] [[traditions]], autumn lasts throughout the months of August, Se
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• 85:4 Worship of the Elements
  ...n India it is a [[devil]] because it brings dust and causes drought. The [[ancient]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouins Bedouins] believed that a [[natur
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• Pathology
  ...] to the field of [[medicine]], a development which occurred in the Middle East during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age Islamic Golden Early [[systematic]] [[human]] infections were carried out by the Ancient Greek physicians [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herophilos Herophilus of Ch
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• Apocrypha
  ...ent]], by A.D. 405 in the west, and by the end of the fifth century in the east. The Christian canon thus established was retained for over 1,000 years, ev ...or what was later to become Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox alike. The East did already differ from the West in not considering every question of [[can
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• 124:6 The Journey to Jerusalem
  ...aching [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_(city) Jezreel], they turned east, going around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gilboa Mount Gilboa] int ...ion, and as they [[journeyed]] on, very soon, on the left, they passed the ancient village of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunem Shunem], and [[Jesus]] hea
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• Actors
  ...orks in [[film]], television, [[theatre]], or radio in that capacity. The ancient [[Greek]] word for an "actor," ὑποκριτής (hypokrites), means [[li ...p or company (such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_West_Players East West Players]).
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• Intellectual History
  ...uding, but not limited to, those in the [[far east]], [[near east]], [[mid-east]] and [[Africa]]. ==Asia and the Far East==
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• Hegemony
  ...rd ''hegeisthai'' (meaning "to lead"). An early example of hegemony during ancient Greek [[history]] occurred when Sparta became the hegemon of the [[Peloponn The concept of "Hegemony" was also present in ancient China, during the Spring and Autumn Perio] (ca. 770 BC - 480 BC), when the
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• Breast
  ...ake Goddess statuettes. In [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anciient_Greece Ancient Greece] there were several [[cults]] [[Worship|worshipping]] the "Kourotrop ...tions of [[female]] [[nudity]] in Greek art occurred "usually with drapery near at hand and with a forward-bending, self-protecting posture". A popular [[l
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• 2012-10-15-A Lesson on Learning
  ..., too, has a lot of good things in it, and it warrants investigating those ancient methods of healing, and eradicating superstition. Later healing modalities
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• Mediterranean Sea
  ...y land: on the north by [[Europe]], on the south by [[Africa]], and on the east by [[Asia]]. It covers an approximate area of [[1 E12 m²|2.5 million]]&nbs ...Carthaginian]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] cultures. The [[history of the Mediterranean]] is crucial to u
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• Marathon
  ...rg/wiki/Ancient_Greece Ancient Greek] Μαραθών, name of a deme on the north-east coast of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica Attica] in Greece, the site
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• Shepherd
  ...as in time for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_shearing shearing]. In ancient times shepherds also commonly milked their sheep, and made cheese from this ...d on regions such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East Middle East], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece Greece], the [https://en.wikipedia.
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• Exceptionalism
  ...Historians have added many other cases, including historic empires such as Ancient [[Rome]], the Ottoman Empire and China, along with a wide range of minor ki ...opher K. Chase-Dunn, Thomas D. Hall, and E. Susan Manning, "Rise and Fall: East-West Synchronicity and Indic Exceptionalism Reexamined," Social Science His
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• New Testament Apocrypha
  ...Hermas] was considered genuine by many Christians, and appears in several ancient Bibles. ...m (India), and the Chaldean Syrian Church, also known as the Church of the East (Nestorian), with headquarters at Trichur (India), still only present lesso
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching Yi Jing] (the ''Book of Changes''), an [[ancient]] compendium of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination divination], whic ...phical. However, it still carries profound influence amongst the people of East Asia, and Southeast Asia.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_philosophy]
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• 2011-05-08-Resurrection in Mercy
  ...ght great havoc to part of the universe of Nebadon. We are moving in these ancient arenas of your planet’s consciousness. Prior to the rebellion, there was ...le. Focus on these words RESURRECTION IN MERCY on the region of the Middle East and we will continue to add what is necessary for dynamic change to continu
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• 78:8 The Sumerians—Last of the Andites
  ...was more exclusively [[Nodite]] in [[character]], and they clung to the [[ancient]] [[traditions]] of [[Dalamatia]]. Nonetheless, these [https://www.wikipedi ...t Egypt] in the west to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] in the east.
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• 80:3 The Cro-Magnoid Blue Man
  80:3.1 The [[ancient]] [[centers]] of the [[culture]] of the blue man were located along all the ...]] of [[culture]] continued until it received a fresh [[impetus]] from the east when the final and en masse [[invasion]] of the [https://www.en.wikipedia.o
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• Byzantine
  ...ebatable, since the [[empire]] of this time preserved the main features of ancient urban [[society]] and remained a Mediterranean state par excellence. The is This period is characterized by the crisis of ancient city life, aggravated by serious territorial losses and cultural decline. S
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• Salem
  ...a holy city for [[Judaism]] (Temple of [[Solomon]] and the capital of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and [[Judeah]]), [[Christianity]] ([[Christ]]’s crucif ...75316 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd) The epithet may have originated in the ancient name of Jerusalem—Salem (after the pagan deity of the city), which is ety
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• 65:2 The Evolutionary Panorama
  ...he sluggish and warm-water bays and lagoons of the vast shore lines of the ancient inland [[seas]], those very [[waters]] in which the [[Life Carriers]] [[est ...er_58#58:4._THE_LIFE-DAWN_ERA western implantation] of life in the ancient east-west sheltered seas. The eastern and central groups of living [[organisms]]
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• Names
  ...]] in [[Hebrew]] writing or speech, as well as the common understanding in ancient [[magic]] that magical [[ritual]]s had to be carried out "in [someone's] na ...eated names which may or may not be variants or corruptions of existing or ancient names. Examples include Dors Venabili, R. Daneel Olivaw, and Giskard Revent
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• Nod
  ...fall of [[Dalamatia]] the disloyal staff [[migrated]] to the north and the east. Their descendants were long known as the '''Nodites''', and their dwelling ...r or not there are still present, relatively pure line descendants of this ancient Nodite race? Is this the race that has been associated with royalty through
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• Dimensions
  == Conceptions in ancient traditions == The ancient Norsemen and the Teutonic mythology called "Ginnungagap" to the primordial
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• 79:6 Dawn of Chinese Civilization
  79:6.6 The superiority of the [[ancient]] yellow race was due to four great [[factors]]: ...west and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_ocean Pacific] to the east. Only in the north is the way open to [[attack]], and from the days of the
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• History
  The word '''history''' is derived from the [[Ancient Greek]] ἱστορία, ''historía'', meaning "a learning or knowing by i ...ical]], with events regularly reoccurring. Ancient Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C. and Jeremy A. Sabloff, Benjamin-Cu
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• Humanities
  ...and [[social sciences]]. Conventionally the humanities include [[Languages|ancient and modern languages]] and [[literature]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [ ...ademic tradition, refer to cultures of [[classical antiquity]], namely the Ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Classical study was formerly considered one of t
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• Oracle of Delphi
  ...t. The Greek spelling transliterates as "Delphoi" (with "o" added). and [[Ancient Greek dialects|dialectal]] forms '''Belphoi''' - [[Aeolic Greek|Aeolian]] f ...[[Mount Parnassus]], and includes the Sanctuary of Apollo, the site of the ancient [[Oracle]]. This semicircular spur is known as [[Phaedriades]], and overloo
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• 77:5 Adamson and Ratta
  ...IOLET_RACE violet race]. In these highland sites, situated in a narrow and ancient fertile belt lying in the lower foothills of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/
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• 61:3 The Modern Mountain Stage-Age of The Elephant and The Horse
  ...ition of [[erosion]] [[material]] continued throughout the lowlands to the east. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierras Sierras] were well re-elevated; ...nce], the [[mountain]] peaks and highlands appearing as islands above this ancient sea. Later on, these European seas began to withdraw. Still later, the [[Me
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• 57:8 Crustal Stabilization-The Age of Earthquakes-The World Ocean and The First Continent
  ...f the world will there be found more of the [[modified]] remnants of these ancient preocean [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocks rocks] than in northeastern C ...er limestone was produced by [[marine]]-life deposition.) In none of these ancient rock formations will there be found [[evidences]] of life; they contain no
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• Doubt
  ...ve explanations (such as seeing it as a work of [[mythology]] like Homer's ancient Greek epics the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''). Doubt of a specific religio ...tion of Doubt in the Philosophies of Descartes and Al-Ghazali", Philosophy East and West 16 (3-4): 133–41
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• 2018-10-10-The Sins of the Fathers
  ...t painful [[rest]] straddeled atop a shiny pipeline running from the north-east to south-west and into the land of a new oil merchant on the [[mediterranea ...t [[painful]] rest straddeled atop a shiny pipeline running from the north-east to the south-west and into the land of a new oil and gas merchant on the me
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• 2005-04-05-Region of Van
  ...ers passed by this way as they moved to work in the South and in the North East of this region and surrounding ‘countrysides’. [https://en.wikipedia.or ...of what you now know as Turkey, as there were places further to the North East and further to the South. These were of greater and lesser importance, and
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• Monk
  ...ration from those not [[sharing]] the same [[purpose]]. The [[concept]] is ancient and can be seen in many [[religion]]s and in philosophy. ...rations who then were dwelling on a low-lying hill above the Mareotic Lake near Alexandria in houses at a distance of each other that safeguarded both [[so
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• Automatons
  ===Ancient=== The Ancient Greeks created some remarkably advanced automatons and mechanical special e
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• Humanity
  ...nd [[social sciences]]. Conventionally the humanities include [[Languages|ancient and modern languages]] and [[literature]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [ The great traditions in [[art]] have a foundation in the art of one of the ancient civilizations:
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...enth century. It is defined partly by the [[process]] of rediscovering the ancient culture developed in Greece and Rome in the [[classical period]], and partl ...iod from the seventh to the twelfth century, consisting of translating the ancient philosophers, commenting upon, clarifying, interpreting and developing thei
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• Paper 58 - Life Establishment on Urantia
  ...ribution]] of the [[earth]]'s [[waters]] was rapidly [[developing]]. These ancient inland seas were seldom over five or six hundred feet deep, and sunlight ca ...esponsive]] to this [[solar]] [[influence]] since it turns slightly to the east as the sun rises and slightly to the west as the sun nears setting. This ha
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• Spittle
  ..., to spit into each other's mouth is a way to [[pledge]] [[friendship]] in East Africa. ...ion]] the [[priest]] or exorcist in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon ancient Babylon] acquired his [[powers]] by having his mouth spat into, presumably
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• Quetzalcoatl
  ...ird, and ''coatl'', meaning serpent. The name was also taken on by various ancient leaders. Due to their cyclical view of [[time]] and the tendency of leaders ...tnesses of the meeting), included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, <blockquote>"You have graciously come on earth, you h
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• Galilee
  ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Rift_Valley Jordan Rift Valley] to the east across the plains of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_Valley Jezr ...wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel Israeli Arab] community remained based in and near the cities of [[Nazareth]], Acre, Tamra, Sakhnin and Shefa-'Amr, due to som
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• Philosophy
  ...age:socrates_1.jpg|frame|right|[[Socrates|Sǒcratēs]]; circa 470 BC–399 BC) ancient Greek philosopher credited with the foundation for Western philosophy.]]The All cultures — be they [[prehistoric]], [[ancient]], [[mediæval]], or [[Modernism|modern]]; [[Eastern hemisphere|Eastern]],
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• Paper 78 - The Violet Race After the Days of Adam
  ...thern shore of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea Caspian Sea] near the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopet_Dag Kopet mountains]. From these t ...opotamia Mesopotamia], near the mouth of the [[rivers]], remnants of the [[ancient]] [[culture]] of the days of [[Dalamatia]]. With the passing [[millenniums]
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• Watchers
  ...ia.org/wiki/Witchcraft witchcraft] where the Grigori are said to come from ancient stellar lore. References to angelic Grigori appear in the [[books]] of [htt ...g/wiki/Vernal_Equinox Vernal Equinox], held the position of Watcher of the East. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulus Regulus], marking the [https://en.w
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• Garden of Eden
  ...iblical Mount Sinai|Mount Sinai]], [[Mount Zion]], and the '[[Mount of the East]]' (usually assumed by scholars to mean [[Mount Ararat]]. ...name of the third river is [[Hiddekel]]: that is it which goeth toward the east of [[Assyria]]. And the fourth river is [[Euphrates]].|Genesis 2:10-14 [[KJ
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• History of the Concept of the Mind, v. 2 - Introduction
  ...western philosophy; Ideas about human nature in the ancient Near East; The ancient and medieval horizon of the shamanic soul; Secret teachings about the soul Homeric and ancient Hebrew ideas about the human soul squarely situated its
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• Nazareth
  ...to the north, [[Iksal]] and the adjacent city of [[Nazareth Illit]] to the east which has a population of 40,000 [[Jew]]s and [[Elot]] to the west. Togethe ...en from Kfar HaHoresh.” In: I. Kuijt (ed.), ''Social Configurations of the Near Eastern Neolithic: Community Identity, Hierarchical Organization, and Ritua
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• Density
  ===Conceptions in ancient traditions=== The ancient Norsemen and the Teutonic mythology called "Ginnungagap" to the primordial
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• Guilt
  ...tern civilizations to question why the [[word]] [[ethos]] was adapted from Ancient Greek with such vast differences in cultural norms. [[Christianity]] and [[ Guilt was a main theme in John Steinbeck's ''East of Eden'', Fyodor Dostoevsky's ''Crime and Punishment'', Tennessee Williams
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• Eastern philosophy
  ...often overlooked in many North American and European universities, just as ancient "Western" and monotheistic claims are also overlooked in the last few decad ...Lokayata or Lokyāta, was a materialist and atheist school of thought with ancient roots in India. It proposed a system of ethics based on rational thought. H
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• Literary theory
  ...rs Poetica]]''), and the [[aesthetic]] theories of [[philosopher]]s from [[ancient philosophy]] through the [[18th century|18th]] and [[19th century|19th cent ...tly different intellectual traditions: the New Critic bases his work on an East-Coast American scholarly and religious tradition, while the Marxist derives
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• Philistine
  ...have suggested refers to "[[Potnia theron|Potnia]]," the title given to an ancient [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] [[goddess]]. Excavations in [[Ashkelon]], [[ .... This was apparently not due to a belief in a strong connection with the ancient Philistines, but merely reflects the former convention that "Philistine" si
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• Paper 79 - Andite Expansion in the Orient
  ...lesser extent, [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet Tibet] were the [[ancient]] gateways through which these peoples of [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wik ...River Tarim] region was a fertile land; the rainfall was plentiful. To the east the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi Gobi] was an open grassland where th
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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 A view (Jenő Szmodis, 2005) suggests that the ancient roots of the Roman Law derive directly from the Etruscan religion, which pu
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• Alchemy
  ...bundantly documented in China and in India, as well as in the ancient Near East and Greece. Even so late an author as Galen warns one of his disciples that ...old, production of the elixir of immortality—have a long prehistory in the East as well as in the West. Significantly, this prehistory reveals a specific m
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• Paper 85 - The Origins of Worship
  85:1.3 All [[ancient]] [[clans]] and [[tribes]] had their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_my ...[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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• 2006-07-12-Introducing Great Andite Leader
  George: "Piri Reis?" (An ancient map of Antarctica). "We were a tiny nation and we were late in our trek to the East, and in the end one might say, we suffered the consequences of the devastat
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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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• Book of Baruch
  ...and a sharer in his labours and persecutions: which is the reason why the ancient fathers have considered this book as a part of the prophecy of Jeremiah, an [36] Look toward the east, O Jerusalem,
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• Paper 64 - The Evolutionary Races
  ...ia.org/wiki/Asia Asia] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java Java] in the east; but Australia was again isolated, which further accentuated the developmen ...aper_63#63:1._ANDON_AND_FONTA Andon and Fonta] had [[migrated]] far to the east and to the west. To the west they passed over [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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• Paper 80 - Andite Expansion in the Occident
  ...?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites] from the east. ...ww.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon Ceylon]. The central group moved north and east to the [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] and into
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• Culture
  ...Buddhism]] and [[Taoism]] have had an impact on the cultural traditions of East Asian countries (''see'' section on [[Culture#Eastern religion and philosop ...ther European languages. Dominant influences include [[ancient Greece]], [[ancient Rome]], and [[Christianity]], although religion has declined in Europe.
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• Cultural
  ...Buddhism]] and [[Taoism]] have had an impact on the cultural traditions of East Asian countries (''see'' section on [[Culture#Eastern religion and philosop ...ther European languages. Dominant influences include [[ancient Greece]], [[ancient Rome]], and [[Christianity]], although religion has declined in Europe.
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• Civilization
  In the 6th century, the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Emperor Justinian]] oversaw the consolidation of Roman [[Civ ...tnam]], and so forth), all of them sharing the fact that they belong to an East Asian civilization, sharing Confucianism, Mahayana Buddhism, a "[[Mandarin
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• Paper 60 - Urantia During Early Land-Life Era
  ...now the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean Pacific Ocean]. This ancient California sea was rich in [[marine]] life and extended eastward to [[conne ...re of batlike formation with a spread of twenty to twenty-five feet. These ancient flying [[reptiles]] grew to be ten feet long, and they had separable jaws m
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• Golden rule
  == Ancient Greek philosophy == The Golden Rule was a common principle in ancient Greek philosophy. A few examples:
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• Art History
  ===The ancient world=== ...atural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'' concerning the development of [[Ancient Greek art|Greek sculpture and painting]]. From them it is possible to trace
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• 2014-12-01-New Era Conversations 35
  ...he earth rotates left to right, as the sunlight begins to move across from east to west. The dark side provides the place, or resident location of many li MACHIVENTA: Yes, it can be valid. This is not a new activity; it is quite ancient; it is a part of most indigenous cultures, that there is a shaman or other
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