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• B.C.E.
  ...such as Christ and Lord, which are used in the AD/BC notation. The use of BCE and CE has been criticized by some (who favor the BC/AD system) as being in ...are sometimes written with small capital letters, or with periods (e.g., "BCE" or "C.E.").[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era]
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• Wheel
  ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronocice_pot Bronocice pot], a ca. 3500–3350 BCE clay pot excavated in a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnelbeaker_culture ...hough Barbieri-Low argues for earlier Chinese wheeled vehicles, circa 2000 BCE.
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• Salary
  ...hic_Revolution Neolithic Revolution], sometime between 10,000 BCE and 6000 BCE. ....wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform cuneiform] inscribed clay tablet dated about BCE 3100 provides a record of the daily beer rations for workers in [https://en
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• Sanskrit
  ...dard register as laid out in the grammar of Pāṇini, around the 4th century BCE. Its position in the [[culture]]s of South]] and Southeast Asia] is akin to ...t archaic stage preserved, its oldest core dating back to as early as 1500 BCE, qualifying Rigvedic Sanskrit as one of the oldest attestation of any [[Ind
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• Fuel
  .../Charcoal Charcoal], a wood derivative, has been used since at least 6,000 BCE for melting metals. It was only supplanted by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik Coal was first used as a fuel around 1000 BCE in China. With the development of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_
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• New Year
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa_Pompilius Numa Pompilius] in about 700 BCE, according to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch Plutarch] and [https:
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• Papyrus
  ...m ca. 2560–2550 BCE (end of the reign of Khufu).[3] In the first centuries BCE and CE, papyrus [[scrolls]] gained a rival as a [[writing]] surface in the
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• Socratic
  ...e literary works developed in [[Greece]] at the turn of the fourth century BCE, preserved today in the dialogues of [[Plato]] and the Socratic works of [[
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• Judaism
  ...of Judaism begins with the Covenant between God and [[Abraham]] (ca. 2000 BCE), the patriarch and progenitor of the Jewish people. Judaism is among the o
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...The Analects''Penguin Classics ISBN 0-14-044348-7 both appeared around 600 BCE, about the time that the Greek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre_Socratics ...llected teachings of the Chinese sage Confucius, who lived from 551 to 479 BCE. His philosophy [[focused]] in the fields of [[ethics]] and [[politics]], e
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• Yin and yang
  ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Zhongshu Dong Zhongshu], (c. 2nd century BCE) a moral dimension is attached to the yin-yang idea.
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• Indian Philosophy
  # The Vedic Period (1500 [[BCE]] – 600 BCE) # The Epic period (600 BCE – 200 [[AD]])
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• Temple
  ...s to about the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_century_BCE 6th century BCE]), despite the specific set of [[meanings]] [[associated]] with the [[relig
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• Nirvana
  ...origins go back to at least the earliest centuries of the first millennium BCE. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Canon Pali Canon] contains the ear
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• Clown
  ...pedia.org/wiki/Fifth_dynasty_of_Egypt Fifth dynasty of Egypt], around 2400 BCE. Contrary to [[court]] jests, clowns have [[traditional]]ly served a socio-
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• Agnosticism
  ...clude [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagoras Protagoras], a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher, and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasadiya_Sukta Na
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• Pharisees
  ...er the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmonean Hasmonean dynasty] (140–37 BCE) in the wake of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabean_Revolt Maccabe
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• Judea
  ...Land of [[Israel]] (Hebrew: ארץ ישראל‎ Eretz Yisrael) from the 8th century BCE (Assyrian rule) to the 2nd century CE, when [[Roman]] Judea was renamed [ht
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• Dissonance
  ...nd the Grapes] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop Aesop] (ca. 620–564 BCE), where the fox decides that the grapes he is unable to reach are probably
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• Cannabis
  ...dia.org/wiki/Scythians Scythians] taking cannabis steam baths. His (c. 440 BCE) ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histories_(Herodotus) Histories]'' record
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• Hades
  ...he fertile crops, from the soil come the metals and so on), c. 5th century BCE the Greeks started referring to Hades as Πλούτων, Ploutōn, a name t
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• Darkness
  # Hesiod (700 BCE). Theogony. 713-735. # Homer (700 BCE). Iliad. Book VII.
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• 2010-08-01-Revolution in Thought
  Machiventa Melchizedek, Melchizedek, or the Sage of Salem (1973 BCE) did much to organize the Midwayers into becoming responsible citizens.
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• Satyrs
  ...yr on the right has a long horse tail. Not a goat tail (Attic ceramic, 520 BCE).
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• Alchemy
  ...emistry. To quote only a few examples: the isolation of mercury around 300 BCE; the discovery of aqua vitae (alcohol) and of the mineral acids, both befor ...oldest Hellenistic text, Physikē kai mystikē (probably written around 200 BCE), relates how this book was discovered hidden in a column of an Egyptian te
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• Tragedy
  ...], ''Anti-Œdipus'' (1972). In the wake of Aristotle's ''[[Poetics]]'' (335 BCE), tragedy has been used to make [[genre]] distinctions, whether at the scal
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• Gilgamesh
  ...sh were a historical king, he probably reigned in about the [[26th century BCE]]. Some of the earliest Sumerian texts spell his name as ''Bilgames''. Init ...in particular [[Gudea]], the Second Dynasty ruler of [[Lagash]] (2144–2124 BCE).
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• Hebrews
  ...The Hebrews lived within the Land of Israel by at least the 2nd millennium BCE and in addition to speaking [[Hebrew]] also spoke Canaanite languages and
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• Hebrew Prophets
  ...epts the opinion that Nechemyah died in Babylon before 9th Tevet 3448 (313 BCE). Babylonian Talmud, Vilna Gaon, volume, San.11a, Yom.9a, Yuch.1.14, Kuz.3.
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• Auspice
  ...dia.org/wiki/Classical_Greece Classical Greece]: in the fourteenth-century BCE diplomatic correspondence preserved in Egypt called the "[https://en.wikipe
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• Physician
  : —First aphorism of Hippocrates, c. 400 BCE, from the [https://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Hippocrates.html Hippocra
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• Macrocosm and Microcosm
  ...st known usage of this schema, among them, can be dated to the 3rd century BCE by the Greek [[Olympiadorus]], who stated, ''"the mythic Hermes calls man a
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• Yahweh
  ...the [[texts]] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit Ugarit] (c. 1200 BCE) and other Canaanite sources, the high god of the [https://en.wikipedia.org ...eighth] through the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/600_BC sixth centuries BCE].
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• Diaspora
  ...as Jews, Benjaminites, and Levites exiled from the Southern Kingdom in 587 BCE by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_exile Babylonians], and fr
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• Time
  An [[Egypt]]ian device dating to c.[[1500 BCE]], similar in shape to a bent [[T-square]], measured the passage of time fr ...til the markings appropriate for the latitude of [[Rome]] were used ([[164 BCE]]). Jo Ellen Barnett, ''Time's Pendulum'' p.31 Noontime was an event which
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• Globalization
  .../New_World New World]. Some even trace the origins to the third millennium BCE. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the [[connectedness]] of
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• 2003-04-25-That Antediluvian World
  George: "Thirteen thousand years ago (11,000 BCE) dates these [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_point Clovis points]? Th
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• Religion
  ...Era|BCE]] – ca. 476 BCE) and [[Herodotus]] (ca. 484 BCE – 425 BCE). Later, during the [[Middle Ages]], [[Islam]]ic scholars studied [[Zoroast
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• Chakras
  ...ousand years before being written down for the first time between 1200–900 BCE.
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• Philo
  '''Philo''' (20 BCE – 50 CE), known also as '''Philo of Alexandria''' (gr. Φίλων ὁ Ἀ
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• Buddha
  ...presented definite opinions gave dates within 20 years either side of 400 BCE for the Buddha's death, with others supporting earlier or later dates. ...efore the reign of the [[Maurya]] king [[Ashoka the Great|Aśoka]] (273–232 BCE).
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• El
  ...hish which has on its opposite face the name of Amenhotep II (c. 1435–1420 BCE) The title ḏū gitti is also found in Serābitṭ text 353. Cross (1973, A Phoenician inscribed amulet of the 7th century BCE from Arslan Tash may refer to ʼĒl. Rosenthal (1969, p. 658) translated th
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• Tolerance
  ...and "Judaism, briefly in power during the Hasmonean period (second century BCE) should have persecuted pagan Idumeans". [11] Cohen continues: "When all is
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• Buddhist Philosophy
  ...of [[Buddha|Gautama Buddha]], a.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama (c. [[5th century BCE]]). Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in [[metaphysics]], This process took shape from about the [[2nd century BCE]] to probably the [[2nd century CE]].
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• Planet
  ...orb astronomical learning, including constellations and the zodiac, by 600 BCE. A Chronological History of Babylonian Astronomy, Gary D. Thompson, https:/
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• Classics
  ...iquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Era|CE]] 500. The study of the Classi
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• Materialism
  ...early proponents of [[atomism]]. The Nyaya-Vaisesika school (600 BCE - 100 BCE) developed one of the earliest forms of atomism. The tradition was carried
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• Prophecy
  Throughout ancient Israel's history as an independent state (c. 1000–586 BCE), the religious orientation of a large segment of its population was polyth By at least the eighth century BCE the Hebrew prophets or their [[scribe]]s commonly wrote down their oracles,
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• Chosen People
  ...onomy]] (7:6, 14:2), a biblical text not written until the seventh century BCE. Underlying God's promises to [[Abraham]] and his descendants in [[Genesis] ...code of [[moral]] and [[cult]]ic [[behavior]]. Thus, by the eighth century BCE, the prophet [[Isaiah]] admonishes those who outwardly follow cultic prescr
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• Amen
  ...Contemporary usage reflects ancient practice: As early as the 4th century BCE, Jews assembled in the Temple responded 'amen' at the close of a doxology o
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