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• Formal Sciences
  ...0BC-500 BC ([[ancient India]]), 1300-1200 BC ([[ancient Egypt]]), and 1800 BC ([[Mesopotamia]]). From then on different cultures such as the [[History of ...5th century BC, and Greece between the 4th century BC and the 1st century BC. The formally sophisticated treatment of modern logic descends from the Gre
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• Crucifixion
  ...ds, Carthaginians, and [[Romans]] from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD, when in the year 337 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Emper
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• Temple
  *Date: before [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Century 12th century] ...ich dates to about the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_century_BCE 6th century BCE]), despite the specific set of [[meanings]] [[associated]] with the [[r
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• Theognis
  '''Theognis of Megara''' (fl. 6th century BC) was an ancient Greek [[poet]]. More than half of the extant [[elegiac]] po ..."Persian terror" of 490 BC and 480 BC; others place his ''floruit'' in 545 BC. We know little about his life; few of the details usually given in textboo
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• Caliper
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] ...glio] wreck near the Italian coast. The ship find dates to the 6th century BC. The wooden piece already featured a fixed and a movable jaw. Although rare
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• Chaldean
  ...rule Babylon. [[Tribes]] of settlers who arrived in the region in 625-539 BC became known as the Chaldeans. ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Babylon Kings of Babylon] (6th century BC) is [[convention]]ally known to [[historians]] as the [https://en.wikipedia
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...st flowering is generally considered to have been in about the 6th century BC. Antony Flew & Stephen Priest, ''A Dictionary of Philosophy''. Pan Macmilla ...yì xiān'', in one Mandarin form of the name) at the beginning of the 20th century. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Tse_Tung Mao Tse-Tung] added [https://e
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• Celt
  ...ly Irish literature, such as the ''[[Táin Bó Cúailnge]]'', survive in 12th century recensions. ...and the Continental Celtic languages ceased to be widely used by the sixth century. "Celtic Europe" today refers to the lands surrounding the Irish Sea, as we
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• Immortal
  * [[Melchizedek]] (18th century BC), a priest. According to some [[translation]]s of [[Hebrews]] 7:3: "Without * The Wandering Jew (b. 1st century BC), a Jewish shoemaker. According to legend, he taunted [[Jesus]] on his way
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• Hegemony
  ...gemon of the [[Peloponnesian League]] in the 6th century BC. Later, in 337 BC, Philip II of Macedon became the personal Hegemon of the League of Corinth, ...nt in ancient China, during the Spring and Autumn Perio] (ca. 770 BC - 480 BC), when the weakening of the Zhou Dynasty led to increased autonomy amongst
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• Oracle of Delphi
  ...hip of [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]], in the last quarter of the [[8th century BC]] there is a steady increase of artifacts found at the settlement site in D ...to that of [[Dodona]]: both Aeschylus and Euripides, writing in the fifth century, attribute to primeval times the same methods as used at Delphi in their ow
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• Sophism
  ...kipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sages_of_Greece Seven Sages] of 7th and 6th Century BC (like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon Solon] and [https://en.wikipedia In the second half of the 5th century BC, particularly at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens Athens], "sophist" c
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• Tao Te Ching
  ...lassic." According to [[tradition]], it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zhou D ...in English. The pinyin romanization Daodejing originated in the late 20th century, and this romanization is becoming increasingly popular, having been adopte
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• Gravity
  ...ltures#India|ancient India]] explained the phenomenon from the 8th century BC. In the 4th century BC, the [[Greek philosophy|Greek philosopher]] [[Aristotle]] believed that the
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• Elohim
  ...r in terms of monotheism by the emergence of Rabbinical Judaism in the 2nd century AD.[5]
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• Humanities
  ...the humanities, but the classics declined in importance during the [[20th century]]. Nevertheless, the influence of classical ideas in humanities such as ph ...dle East by the conquests of [[Alexander of Macedon]] in the [[4th century BC]].
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• Atlantis
  ...[[Africa]] 9,000 years before the time of [[Solon]], or approximately 9500 BC. After a failed attempt to invade [[Athens]], Atlantis sank into the ocean ...the failed [[Sicilian Expedition|Athenian invasion of Sicily]] in 415-413 BC.
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• Humanity
  The physical and rational certainties depicted by the 19th-century Enlightenment were shattered not only by new discoveries of relativity by [ ...the humanities, but the classics declined in importance during the [[20th century]]. Nevertheless, the influence of classical ideas in humanities such as ph
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• 2000-10-06-Expectations
  ...sed]]. While the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_century_bc 6th century BC] was a time of great spiritual [[awakening]], this time is [[forecast]] to
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• Civilization
  ...re''. ''Civilization'' can also refer to society as a whole. To nineteenth-century [[England|English]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] [[Edward Burnett Tylor] ...to ''civility'', meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the 18th century.
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