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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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• Category:Medieval Philosophy
  ...[[Renaissance]]. It is defined partly by the process of rediscovering the ancient culture developed in Greece and Rome in the classical period, and partly by
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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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• Category:Archaeology
  ...[[pharaoh]]s were looted in antiquity. The advent of archaeology has made ancient sites objects of great scientific and public interest, but it has also attr ...numbers by treasure hunters. Sites in more densely populated areas farther east have also been looted. Where looting is proscribed by law it takes place un
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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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