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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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