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• Amanuensis
  ...[[word]] originated in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome ancient Rome], for a [[slave]] at his master's [[personal]] [[service]] 'within hand rea
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• Tribute
  Various ancient states, which could be called suzerains, exacted tribute from areas they ha ...e] and [[Rome]] exacted tribute from their provinces and subject kingdoms. Ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China] received tribute from various s
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• Grotesque
  ...style of Ancient [[Roman]] decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century]. The "cave
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• The Arts
  The great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of six ancient civilizations: * [[Mesopotamia]], [[Egypt]], [[India]], [[China]], [[Greece]], and [[Rome]]
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• Halo
  ...of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Ancient Greece], Ancient Rome, Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity, among other religions, sacred persons
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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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• Art
  The great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of six ancient civilizations: * [[Mesopotamia]], [[Egypt]], [[India]], [[China]], [[Greece]], and [[Rome]]
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• Nominate
  Candidate comes from the [[Latin]] word "candida" (white). In Ancient [[Rome]], people running for [[political]] office would often wear togas chalked a
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• Patriarchy
  ...andria, Antioch and [[Jerusalem]], or of the ancient and Western Sees of [[Rome]] with authority over other bishops. It also refers to the head of any of v
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• Anniversary
  ...mater alma mater] ([[college]] or other [[school]]). Even in [[ancient]] [[Rome]], we know of the [''dies''] ''Aquilae natalis'' ("birthday of the eagle",
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• Topography
  ...'topography''' originated in ancient [[Greece]] and continued in ancient [[Rome]], as the detailed description of a place. The [[word]] comes from the Gree
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• Pagan
  ...y in major [[urban]] areas (like Antioch, Alexandria, Carthage, Corinth, [[Rome]]) than in the countryside (in [[fact]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ...stic]] religion (as in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome ancient Rome])
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• Colonialism
  ...ce Ancient Greece] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Ancient Rome], this fact has been addressed by empires adopting the concept of universal
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• Phoenix
  In ancient Greece and Rome, the bird, φοῖνιξ, was sometimes associated with the similar-soundin
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• Censor
  *2: one of two [[magistrates]] of early [[Rome]] acting as census takers, assessors, and inspectors of [[morals]] and [[co ...r''' was an officer in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome ancient Rome] who was responsible for [[maintaining]] the [[census]], supervising [[publ
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• Assassination
  ...An example of this is Jing Ke's failed assassination of Qin Shi Huang. The ancient Indian military adviser Chanakya wrote about assassinations in detail in hi
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• Forum
  *1a : the [[marketplace]] or [[public]] place of an ancient [[Roman]] [[city]] forming the [[center]] of [[judicial]] and [[public]] [[ ...e]] itself, several smaller or more specialised forums appeared throughout Rome’s archaic [[history]]. By the time of the late Republic expansions and re
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• Orthodox
  ...e [[Greek]]-speaking world, though the word does occasionally show up in [[ancient]] [[literature]] in other, somewhat similar [[contexts]]. Orthodoxy is oppo ...as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion state religion] of [[Rome]] on February 27, 380 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_I Theodo
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• Arena
  ...t arenas such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum Colosseum in Rome]. It is composed of a large open space [[surrounded]] on most or all sides
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• Coronation
  ...of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaterasu Amaterasu], the sun goddess. [[Rome]] promulgated the [[practice]] of emperor [[worship]]; in [https://en.wikip
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