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• B.C.E.
  ...notation. The use of BCE and CE has been criticized by some (who favor the BC/AD system) as being in their view "the result of secularization" and "polit ...represented as 399 BCE (the same year that is represented by 399 BC in the BC/AD system). The abbreviations are sometimes written with small capital lett
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• Babylonia
  ...nd [[Sumer]] in the south combined in the first half of the 2nd millennium bc . ...ipedia.org/wiki/Hammurabi Hammurabi] in the first half of the 18th century BC, becoming a major capital city. During the reign of Hammurabi and afterward
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• IC 99
  ...ritish Columbia] near [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver Vancouver], BC in the summer of 1999. For lessons received at this gathering, follow [htt
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• Mural
  ...600 BC) and in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii Pompeii] (around 100 BC - AD 79).
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• Solomon
  ...[[Jerusalem]] about 1000 BC and reigned over Israel from about 970 to 928 BC.
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• Formal Sciences
  ...0BC-500 BC ([[ancient India]]), 1300-1200 BC ([[ancient Egypt]]), and 1800 BC ([[Mesopotamia]]). From then on different cultures such as the [[History of ...5th century BC, and Greece between the 4th century BC and the 1st century BC. The formally sophisticated treatment of modern logic descends from the Gre
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• Socrates
  [[Image:Socrates_1.jpg|right|<center>Socrates</center><center>ca. 470 BC–399 BC</center>|frame]] ...ωκράτης, invariably anglicized as [ˈsɔkɹətiːz], Sǒcratēs; circa 470 BC–399 BC) was an ancient Greek [[philosopher]] who is widely credited for laying the
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• Proscription
  ==Proscription of 82 BC== ...of mass proscription took place in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/82_BC 82 BC], when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla Lucius Corneli
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• Autopsy
  Around 3000 BC [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egyptians] were one of ...hat the second stab wound Caesar received was the fatal one. By around 150 BC, ancient Roman [[legal]] practice had established clear parameters for auto
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• Ancient
  ...iod around the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30th_century_BC 30th century BC]. This is the beginning of [[history]], as opposed to [https://en.wikipedia ...coincides with the [[traditional]] date of the founding of [[Rome]] in 753 BC, the beginning of the [[history]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient
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• Dictionary of National Biography - Oxford
  4th C. Bc - 2001
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• Oxford Companion to British History
  ...to British History'' covers all aspects of the history of Britain from 55 BC to the present day. Written by over 100 distinguished specialist contributo
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• Mesopotamia
  ...t the Greek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint] (ca. 250 BC) to translate the Hebrew equivalent ''Naharaim''. ...chaemenid_Empire Achaemenid Empire]. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek [https://en.wikipedia.org
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• Dictionary of British History
  ...ompact reference work on all aspects of the [[history]] of Britain from 55 BC to the present day. Written by over 100 distinguished specialist contributo
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• Verbosity
  ...ikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Julius Caesar], Roman general (100 BC – 44 BC) spoke concisely of one of his military successes: ''[https://en.wikipedia.
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• Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
  Spanning almost one thousand years, from the first [[Olympic Games]] in 776 BC to the death of [[Marcus Aurelius]] in AD 180, this accessible and wide-ran
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• Sumer
  ..., comprising the southern part of [[Mesopotamia]]. From the 4th millennium bc it was the site of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#City-states_in_Meso ...uggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 and 4000 BC by a non-Semitic people who spoke the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumeri
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• Hymn
  ...ing deities of the ancient Greek religions. Surviving from the 3rd century BC is a collection of six literary hymns (Ὕμνοι) by the Alexandrian poet
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• British Library
  ...al items dating back as far as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_BC 2000 BC]. The British Library is the largest library in the world by number of item
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• Chaldean
  ...rule Babylon. [[Tribes]] of settlers who arrived in the region in 625-539 BC became known as the Chaldeans. ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Babylon Kings of Babylon] (6th century BC) is [[convention]]ally known to [[historians]] as the [https://en.wikipedia
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• Choir
  ...The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph Seikilos epitaph] (2c BC) is a complete [[song]] (although possibly for solo voice). One of the late
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• Becoming
  ...f Hephesus, who in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/600_BC Sixth century BC], said that nothing in this world is constant except [[change]] or becoming
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• Kings and Queens of Britain
  ...le guide to the British [[monarchy]] spans the Romano-British rulers of 55 BC to the present day [[House of Windsor]]. Generously illustrated with maps,
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• Plato
  '''Plato''', Greek: Πλάτων, 428/427 or 424/423 BC[a] – 348/347 BC) was a [[philosopher]], as well as mathematician, in [https://en.wikipedia.
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• Armageddon
  ...] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(609_BC) one in 609 BC]. Modern Megiddo is a town approximately 25 miles (40 km) west-southwest of
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• Theognis
  '''Theognis of Megara''' (fl. 6th century BC) was an ancient Greek [[poet]]. More than half of the extant [[elegiac]] po ..."Persian terror" of 490 BC and 480 BC; others place his ''floruit'' in 545 BC. We know little about his life; few of the details usually given in textboo
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• Crucifixion
  ...sians, Seleucids, Carthaginians, and [[Romans]] from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD, when in the year 337 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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• China
  Chinese civilization stretches back until at least the 3rd millennium bc, the country being ruled by a series of dynasties until the Qing (or Manchu
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• Courtyard
  ...China] and date as far back as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3000_BC 3000 BC]. Courtyards have historically been used for many [[purposes]] including co
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• David
  ...c.1010–1003 BC, and his reign over the united Kingdom of Israel c.1003–970 BC. The Books of Samuel[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=First_B
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• Breast
  ...s have been recorded from [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15,000_BC 15,000 BC] up to late [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquity antiquity] all across ...the middle of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_BC first millennium BC], [[Greek]] [[culture]] [[experienced]] a [[gradual]] [[change]] in the [[p
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• Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
  ...d [[collection]] of [[Jewish]] religious works thought to be written c 300 BC to 300 AD. They are distinguished by Protestants from the Deuterocanonical ...merous works of [[Jewish]] religious [[literature]] written from about 300 BC to 300 AD. Not all of these works are actually pseudepigraphical. It also r
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• Jeremiah, OT Prophet
  ...ll of Jerusalem] and the destruction of Solomon's Temple in 3358 AM or 587 BC. This period spanned the reigns of five kings of Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, J ...org/wiki/Yahweh Yahweh] called Jeremiah to prophetic ministry in about 626 BC, about one year after Josiah king of Judah had turned the nation toward rep
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• 2004-08-16-Ancient Way
  ...river Euphrates really lived, and reigned for more than 120 years ca. 2700 BC.
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• Pantheon
  ....wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_pantheon Pantheon of Rome], built in the year 27 BC. The building was [[dedicated]] to "all gods" as a [[gesture]] embracing th
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• Sadducees
  ...tarting from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_century_BC 2nd century BC] through the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple#Destruction destr
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• 2012-06-07-Malachi's Prophecy Is To Be Soon Fulfilled
  Malachi lived about 450 BC, some 400 years later than Ezekiel (circa 850 BC). Ezekiel prophesied the coming of the Creator Son and Malachi prophesied
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• Rome
  ...rth Africa and the Middle East for four hundred years from the 1st Century BC till the 4th Century AD. Rome has a significant place in [[Christianity]] a
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• Plato's Symposium
  ...ium''' is a philosophical dialogue written by [[Plato]] sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a series of s
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• Portrait
  ...ak, who carved a representation of himself and his [[wife]] Taheri c. 1365 BC. However, it seems likely that self-portraits go back to the [https://en.wi
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• Xenophon
  ...t to be confused with the Lycon who was one of Socrates' prosecutors). 421 BC is the dramatic date of the work.
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• Temple
  ...from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_millennium_BC 10th millennium BC].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple]
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• Covenant
  ...arties is the so-called Mitanni treaty, dating to the 14th or 15th century BC, between the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites Hittites] and the [htt
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• Games
  Attested as early as 2600 BC,[2][3] games are a universal part of human experience and present in all cu
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• Intersection
  .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws De Morgan's laws]: A ∩ B = (Ac ∪ Bc)c[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection_%28set_theory%29]
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• Ostracism
  ...Similarly, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimon Cimon], ostracised in 461 BC, was recalled during an emergency.
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• Campaign
  ...ffort to [[execute]] or banish [[Socrates]] from Athens in the 5th century BC, the uprising of petty nobility against John of England in the 13th century
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• Obeisance
  ...assus], who lived in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_BC 5th century BC] in his ''Histories'' 1.134:
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• Dictatorship
  ...n. There were no such dictatorships after the beginning of the 2nd century BC, and later dictators such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla Sulla] an
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• Piety
  ...Ashoka] the Great referred to himself in the Edicts of Ashoka (3rd century BC).
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• Corpus
  ...test corpora in time, may be the 15-30 year [[Amarna]] letters texts-(1350 BC). The corpus of an ancient city, (for example the "[[Kültepe]] Texts" of T
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• Joke
  Jokes have been a part of [[human]] [[culture]] since at least 1900 BC. According to [[research]] conducted by Dr Paul McDonald of the University
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• Tsunami
  ...ikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides Thucydides] suggested in his late-5th century BC ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War History o
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• Touch stone
  It was also used by Indus Valley Civilization about 3500 BC for testing the purity of soft metals.
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• Philistine
  ...of Egypt|Twentieth Dynasty]], ''ca.'' [[1180s BC|1180]] to [[1150s BC|1150 BC]]. Their maritime knowledge presumably would have made them important to th ...[[Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt|Nineteenth Dynasty]] (ended [[1180s BC|1185 BC]]). The [[Bible|biblical]] stories of [[Samson]], [[Samuel (Bible)|Samuel]
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• Gears
  ...l positions. Its time of construction is now estimated between 150 and 100 BC.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears]
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• Forum
  ...re_of_Pompey Theatre of Pompey] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_BC 55 BC]. The Theatre included a massive forum behind the theatre arcades known as
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• Christ as Logos
  ...ally divided into four periods: Old Academy 347-267 BC, New Academy 267-80 BC, Middle Platonism 80BC-250 AD, and Neoplatonism 250 AD through to the Refor ...of the second century AD, Pre-Gnosticism was present in the second century BC. This syncretism is clearly seen in the parallelism of the Rabbinic writing
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• Deity
  ..." among their many titles. One, Hatshepsut, who ruled from 1479 BC to 1458 BC, traced her heritage not only to her father, Thutmose I, who would have bec ...e earliest ruler known to have claimed divinity is Naram-Sin (22nd century BC). In many cultures rulers and other prominent or holy persons may be though
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• 2021-02-17-Neither Stern Disciplinarian or Absentee Father
  ...wish faith. Samuel, a Jewish religious hero, who lived in the 11th century BC, played a significant part. He helped dismantle the superstition-driven wor
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• Military
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kadesh Battle of Kadesh] in 1274 BC was one of the defining points of Pharaoh [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra
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• Promiscuity
  ...re not [[universal]]. Indeed, in some Germanic tribes in the first century BC (according to Julius Caesar in his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentar
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• Infinite
  The [[Isha Upanishad]] of the [[Yajurveda]] (c. 4th to 3rd century BC) states that "if you remove a part from infinity or add a part to infinity, ...ian [[Indian mathematics|mathematical]] text ''Surya Prajnapti'' (c. [[400 BC]]) classifies all numbers into three sets: enumerable, innumerable, and inf
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• Celt
  ...language are the [[Lepontic]] inscriptions, beginning from the 6th century BC. Continental Celtic languages are attested only in inscriptions and place-n ...ria/Populi.htm Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC), showing the Celtic territories]
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• Caliper
  ...glio] wreck near the Italian coast. The ship find dates to the 6th century BC. The wooden piece already featured a fixed and a movable jaw. Although rare
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• Utopian
  ...riter]] from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_century_BC 3rd century BC].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia]
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• Hemp
  ...as the name for a source of oil, fiber, and medicine in the 1st millennium BC.
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• Utopia
  ...wikipedia.org/wiki/Euhemerus Euhemerus], a [[writer]] from the 3rd century BC.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia]
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• Pathology
  ...tus_of_Chios Erasistratus of Chios] in the early part of the third century BC.[1] The first physician known to have made postmortem dissections was the A
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• 2021-06-11-Traditionalist or Non-Conformist
  ...ipple effects of the Lucifer rebellion. Moses, who lived from 1530 to 1410 BC, reframed them in an enlarged second edition in the form of ten stern comma
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• Labyrinth
  ..." design became associated with the ''Labyrinth'' on coins as early as 430 BC, and became widely used to represent the Labyrinth – even though both [[l
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• Pilot
  ...me safety. The oldest recorded history dates back to about the 7th century BC.[1] The economic and environmental risk from today's large [https://en.wiki
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• 2015-09-30-Dependency and Contribution
  ...pyrus, vellum and early book-like records. The loss of that repository (48 BC?) stifled some more of my teachings, but the essence survived in people’s
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• Hegemony
  ...gemon of the [[Peloponnesian League]] in the 6th century BC. Later, in 337 BC, Philip II of Macedon became the personal Hegemon of the League of Corinth, ...nt in ancient China, during the Spring and Autumn Perio] (ca. 770 BC - 480 BC), when the weakening of the Zhou Dynasty led to increased autonomy amongst
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• Actors
  The first recorded case of an actor [[performing]] took place in 534 BC (though the changes in calendar over the years make it hard to determine ex
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• Superstition
  ...attested in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Century BC 1st century BC], notably in Cicero, Livy, Ovid, in the [[meaning]] of an unreasonable or e
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• Nonresistance
  ...ement]] of nonresistance [[philosophy]] is that of [[Socrates]] around 399 BC. An influential ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates was [https://en.wikiped
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• Scouts
  The word [[clan]] was not used back in 1150 AD, nor 500 BC with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache Apaches], they were all [[tr
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• Terrorism
  ...warriors of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri Cimbri] tribe in 105 BC. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_Club Jacobins] cited this prece
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• 2015-12-13-Your Allotted Time on Earth
  ...the birth of the Babe of Bethlehem, who was born on the 21st of August, 7 BC.
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• Bonding
  In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_century_bc 4th century BC], the Greek philosopher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] argued
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• Fishing
  ...fishery as early as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_BC 1st century BC]. Their seaport [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuticorin Tuticorin] was kno
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• Roman law
  ...than one thousand years from the law of the [[twelve tables]] (from [[449 BC]]) to the [[Corpus Juris Civilis]] of Emperor [[Justinian I]] (around [[53 ...ans. A second decemvirate is said to have added two further tablets in 449 BC. The new Law of the XII Tables was approved by the people's assembly<ref na
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• Marathon
  ...in which he had just fought), which took place in August or September, 490 BC. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...st flowering is generally considered to have been in about the 6th century BC. Antony Flew & Stephen Priest, ''A Dictionary of Philosophy''. Pan Macmilla
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• Anthropomorphism
  ...philosopher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophanes Xenophanes] (570–480 BC) said that "the greatest god" resembles man "neither in form nor in [[mind]
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• Abdication
  ...org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla] the Dictator in 79 BC, Emperor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian Diocletian] in AD 305, a
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• Assassination
  ...abite King, Eglon by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud Ehud] around 1337 BC, described by The [[Book of Judges]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip
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• Pseudepigrapha
  ...lical studies, the Pseudepigrapha are Jewish religious works written c 200 BC to 200 AD, not all of which are [[literally]] pseudepigraphical.[3] They ar ...rs to numerous works of Jewish religious literature written from about 200 BC to 200 AD.[3] Not all of these works are actually pseudepigraphical.[3] Suc
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• Thunder
  ...r [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle] in the third century BC, and an early speculation was that it was caused by the collision of [https
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• Cain and Abel
  ...ain, on the other hand, is thought to be cognate to the mid-1st millennium BC South Arabian word qyn, meaning "metal smith". This [[theory]] would make t
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• History
  ...ion of when history begins. Some believe history began in the 34th century BC, with [[cuneiform]] [[writing]]. Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, on ...hing. However, it is his contemporary [[Thucydides]] (ca. 460 BC – ca. 400 BC) who is credited with having begun the scientific approach to history in hi
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• Oracle of Delphi
  ...hip of [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]], in the last quarter of the [[8th century BC]] there is a steady increase of artifacts found at the settlement site in D ...from the most intense period of activity at the site in the [[6th century BC]]. [https://www.ancient-greece.org/archaeology/delphi-archaeology.html Delp
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• Censor
  ...d of five years), but as early as ten years after its [[institution]] (433 BC) their office was limited to eighteen months by a [[law]] of the [https://e
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• Hypocrisy
  ...an appropriate role for a [[public]] figure. In Athens in the 4th century BC, for example, the great orator [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes D
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• Dialogue
  ...literary historians commonly suppose that Plato (c. [[427 BC]] - c. [[347 BC]]) introduced the systematic use of dialogue as an independent literary for ...-drawing. He must have begun this about the year [[405 BC]], and by [[399 BC|399]] he had brought the dialogue to its highest perfection, especially in
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• Data
  ...tatement accepted at face value; one of the works of [[Euclid]], circa 300 BC, was the ''Dedomena'' (in Latin, ''Data''). In discussions of problems in [
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• Crossing the Rubicon
  ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Ancient Rome] when, on January 10, 49 BC, he led his army across the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon Rubicon
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• Murder
  .../Code_of_Ur-Nammu Code of Ur-Nammu] written sometime between 2100 and 2050 BC. The code states, "If a man commits a murder, that man must be killed." The
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• Narcissism
  ...lier version ascribed to the poet Parthenius of Nicaea, composed around 50 BC, was recently rediscovered among the Oxyrhynchus papyri at Oxford.[2] Unlik
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