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• Amphitheater
  ...ding with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open [[space]] and used in ancient [[Rome]] especially for contests and [[spectacle]]s ...wn as [[natural]] amphitheatres. Special [[events]] and games were held in ancient [[Roman]] amphitheatres, such as the gladiator [[games]].
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• Palestine
  ...ometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and was later used for the Roman province [https://en.wikipe ...ncient_Greeks Ancient Greeks], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire Byzantines], the Sunni [h
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• Auspice
  In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome ancient Roman religion], the auspices provided divine [[signs]] to be [[interpreted ...because of both their [[connection]] to Rome’s [[foundation]] and because Romans were the first to take the system and lay out such fixed and fundamental [[
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• Colonialism
  ...ent_Greece Ancient Greece] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Ancient Rome], this fact has been addressed by empires adopting the concept of univ ...ia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana Pax Romana]. The use of universal regulation by the Romans marks the [[emergence]] of a European concept of universalism and internati
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• Temple
  ...a often capitalized : either of two [[successive]] national sanctuaries in ancient [[Jerusalem]] ...for any number of religions and is even used for time periods prior to the Romans.
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• Mnemonic
  ...mnemonic" is derived from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] word μνημονικός (mnēmonikos), [[meaning]] "of memory, or Ancient Greeks and Romans distinguished between two types of memory: the "[[natural]]" memory and the
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• Hades
  ...ncient_Greek Ancient Greek] Ἅιδης/ᾍδης, Hāidēs; Doric Ἀΐδας Aidas) was the ancient Greek god of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_underworld underworld ...Latinized as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_(mythology) Pluto]. The Romans would associate Hades/Pluto with their own [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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• Codex
  *1. an ancient [[manuscript]] [[text]] in [[book]] form. ...gradual replacement of the [[scroll]], the dominant form of book in the [[ancient]] world, has been termed the most important advance in the history of the b
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• Crucifixion
  '''Crucifixion''' is an ancient [[method]] of [[pain]]ful execution in which the condemned [[person]] is ti ...as in use particularly among the Persians, Seleucids, Carthaginians, and [[Romans]] from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD, when in the year 337
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• Occident
  ...[[civilizations]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East ancient Near East]; later, they grew to the north and west to include Western Europ ...i/Islamic_Golden_Age Islamic Golden Age]. The Arab importation of both the Ancient and new technology from the Middle East and the [[Orient]] to Renaissance E
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• Autopsy
  ...rm "autopsy" derives from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] ''autopsia'', "to see for oneself", derived from αυτος (autos, Around 3000 BC [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egyptians] were one of the first civilizations to [[practice]] the removal
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• Classic
  ...ent_Greece ancient Greeks] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] or their [[culture]] : classical
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• Eclecticism
  ...wiki/New_Academic New Academics] Carneades and Philo of Larissa. Among the Romans, Cicero was thoroughly eclectic, as he united the [https://en.wikipedia.org
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• Throne
  ...in the iconography of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East Ancient Near East]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] also had two types of thrones- one for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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• 87:3 Ancestor Worship
  ...ere [[dedicated]] to some sort of [[ceremony]] [[associated]] with these [[ancient]] [[cults]]. One Roman emperor tried to reform these [[practices]] by reduc
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• Grotto
  ...arlands, slender [[architectural]] framework, foliations, and animals. The Romans who found them thought them very [[strange]], a sentiment enhanced by their ...sey Odyssey]''. The [[numinous]] [[quality]] of the grotto is still more [[ancient]], of course: in a grotto near [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos Knoss
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• Latin
  ...ted from [[Proto-Indo-European]] except in pronouns, although in prose the Romans tended to favor a SOV word order. [[Syntax]] is revealed through a systemic
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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 ...a.org/wiki/Terrace_(agriculture) terracing]. The Jewish Revolt against the Romans ended in the devastation of vast areas of the Judaean countryside.
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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) " *1: an ancient region of southwestern Asia in present-day Iraq, lying between the Tigris a
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• Physician
  The [[word]] '''physician''' comes from the Ancient [[Greek]] word φύσις (physis) and its derived adjective physikos, mean ...so had the word archiater, for court physician. Archiater derives from the ancient Greek ἀρχιατρός (from ἄρχω + ἰατρός, chief healer). B
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• Mediation
  ...Justinian_I Justinian's] Digest of 530 - 533 CE) recognized mediation. The Romans called mediators by a variety of [[names]], including internuncius, [[mediu
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• Gourmet
  ...ted the frugal ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta Spartans] and Romans of the Republic with the [[decadent]] [[luxury]] of [https://en.wikipedia.o
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• Cross
  ...ting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient [[Romans]] for [[execution]] The cross is one of the most ancient [[human]] [[symbols]], and is used by many religions, such as [[Christianit
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• New Testament
  *[[Letters to the Romans]] ...ese apocryphal works are nevertheless important insofar as they provide an ancient context and setting for the composition of the canonical books. They also c
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• Military
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army terracotta soldiers]. The [[Romans]] were [[dedicated]] to military matters, leaving to [[posterity]] many tre ...e changed the employment of the militaries beyond [[recognition]] to their ancient [[participants]]. [[Empires]] have come and gone; [[states]] have grown and
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• Applause
  The [[ancient]] [[Romans]] had a set [[ritual]] of applause for [[public]] [[performances]], express
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• Public speaking
  ...experience of orators in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greek] city-states. In classical Greece and Rome, the main component was [[ ...of [[training]] in public speaking was adopted virtually wholesale by the Romans.
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• 85:1 Worship of Stones and Hills
  ...of thirty; among the red men it was usually a [[circle]] of stones. The [[Romans]] always threw a stone into the air when invoking [https://en.wikipedia.org
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• 87:6 Coercion and Exorcism
  ...]; shouting, bells, and drums drove them away from the living; and these [[ancient]] [[methods]] are still in vogue at "wakes" for the dead. Foul-smelling con ...] were believed to [[constitute]] impassable barriers to [[ghosts]]. The [[Romans]] carried water three times around the corpse; in the twentieth century the
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• Public domain
  ...Roman Law], as a preset system included in the property right system." The Romans had a large proprietary rights system where they defined "many things that
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• 83:5 Plural Marriages
  ...ustom]] of more than half the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_World ancient world]. This was a [[relic]] of the [[time]] when marriage was a [[family]] ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny polygyny]. The concubines of the [[Jews]], [[Romans]], and [[Chinese]] were very frequently the handmaidens of the [[wife]]. La
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• Christmas
  ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice winter solstice],[7] which in ancient times was marked on December 25.[10] In 1743, German Protestant Paul Ernst ...~mclennan/BA/SF/WinSol.html "Bruma"], Seasonal Festivals of the Greeks and Romans Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 18:59
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• 89:6 Evolution of Human Sacrifice
  ..., [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamians], [[Greeks]], [[Romans]], and many other peoples, even on to recent times among the backward Afric ...[record]], [[illustrative]] of the [[heart]]-tearing contentions between [[ancient]] and time-honored [[religious]] [[customs]] and the contrary demands of ad
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• Philanthropy
  It is generally agreed that the [[word]] was coined 2500 years ago in ancient [[Greece]], by the playwright [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus Aesc ...ive of benefit to humans.” Philanthropia was later [[translated]] by the [[Romans]] into [[Latin]] as, simply, humanitas—humane-ness. And because Prometheu
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• Apocalypse
  ...t reversals. They began to write official [[documents]], as in Babylon, in ancient scripts and long-forgotten [[languages]], and in many ways people revived [ This almost haunting return to ancient [[customs]] and accounts showed up in [[Jerusalem]] in the Deuteronomic ref
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• Paul, the Apostle
  ...also called '''''Paul the Apostle''''', the Apostle Paul, or Saint Paul, (Ancient Greek: Σαούλ (Saul), Σαῦλος (Saulos), and Παῦλος (Paulos ...as ascribed to him in antiquity, was questioned even then, never having an ancient attribution, and in modern times is considered by most experts as not by Pa
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• Philistine
  ...ean|Hasmonean Kingdom]]), [[Greeks]] ([[Seleucid Empire]]), [[Roman Empire|Romans]], and subsequent empires. ...have suggested refers to "[[Potnia theron|Potnia]]," the title given to an ancient [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] [[goddess]]. Excavations in [[Ashkelon]], [[
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• Mediterranean Sea
  ...Carthaginian]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] cultures. The [[history of the Mediterranean]] is crucial to u ...'inland' (''medius'', 'middle' + ''terra'', 'land, earth'). To the ancient Romans, the Mediterranean was the center of the Earth as they knew it.
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• Amen
  ..." or, ''ve-nomar'' (ונאמר) = "and let us say." Contemporary usage reflects ancient practice: As early as the 4th century BCE, Jews assembled in the Temple res * ''Amen'' occurs in several [[doxology]] formulas in [[Epistle to the Romans|Romans]] 1:25, 9:5, 11:36, 15:33, and several times in Chapter 16. It also appears
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• 2006-11-01-More Than Gratitude
  ...for their gods, others like Pharaohs for themselves alone, and some as the Romans for circuses to please the crowds. The simplicity and integrity of masonry ...r mystical journey. Because compression is the force that mortar utilizes, ancient buildings still stand. Similarly, the mortar of your life compresses togeth
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• Archives
  ...eveloped by the [[ancient]] Chinese, the ancient [[Greeks]], and ancient [[Romans]]. Modern archival thinking has many roots in the French Revolution. The [[
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• Imperium
  In [[ancient Rome]], imperium could be used as a term indicating a characteristic of peo ...e capital of the world and Frederick was to become the real emperor of the Romans, so he energetically protested against the world-empire of the pope. The em
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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 ...ssed. It is unlikely that an official delegation was sent to Greece as the Romans believed, instead, it is suggested that Greek legislations were acquired fr
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• Paper 85 - The Origins of Worship
  ...of thirty; among the red men it was usually a [[circle]] of stones. The [[Romans]] always threw a stone into the air when invoking [https://en.wikipedia.org ...[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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• Euthanasia
  ...dvice which may cause his death.”[11] Despite this, the ancient Greeks and Romans generally did not believe that life needed to be preserved at any cost and ...of [[pleasure]] lures--this introduces a new factor into racial survival; ancient man exposed undesired children to die; moderns refuse to bear them.[https:/
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• Paper 83 - The Marriage Institution
  ...ng of the bride over the [[threshold]] is reminiscent of a [[number]] of [[ancient]] [[practices]], among others, of the days of [[wife]] [https://en.wikipedi 83:4.8 One of the most [[ancient]] forms of the wedding [[ceremony]] was to have a [[priest]] [[bless]] the
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• Paper 89 - Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement
  ...boos]], all [[expressed]] in the same [[negative]] form as were the most [[ancient]] prohibitions. But these newer codes were truly emancipating in that they 89:1.6 [[Methods]] of eating soon became taboo, and so originated [[ancient]] and [[modern]] table [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette etiquette].
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• Communication
  ...h artificial channels, i.e. not [[vocalization]] or gestures, goes back to ancient [[cave paintings]], drawn maps, and [[writing]]. Our indebtedness to the [[Ancient Romans]] in the field of communication does not end with the Latin root "communica
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• Paper 87 - The Ghost Cults
  ...d. [[Property]] [[sacrifices]] were also made by burning or [[burying]]. [[Ancient]] funeral wastes were enormous. Later races made [[paper]] models and subst ...ere [[dedicated]] to some sort of [[ceremony]] [[associated]] with these [[ancient]] [[cults]]. One Roman emperor tried to reform these [[practices]] by reduc
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• Prophet
  ...e [[Sibyl|Sybilline]] and [[Oracle of Delphi#Oracle|Delphic Oracles]] in [[Ancient Greece]], the [[Völuspá]] in [[Old Norse]], [[Zoroaster]] in [[Persia]], ...vi is ro'eh, ראה, which literally means "[[See]]r". That could document an ancient shift, from viewing prophets as seers for hire to viewing them as moral tea
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