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• Grove
  *Before [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_century 9th Century] ...man invaders starting in [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th century] there was a common practice of building churches on the sites of sacred gr
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• Scriptorium
  ...need for a room to be set aside for the purpose. By the start of the 13th century secular copy-shops developed; professional scribes may have had special roo The monastery built in the second quarter of the 6th century by [[Cassiodorus]] at Vivarium in southern Italy, contained a purpose-built
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• Trepidation
  ...quinoxes precession of the equinoxes]. The [[theory]] was popular from the 9th to the 16th centuries. .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theon_of_Alexandria Theon of Alexandria] in the 4th century CE. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession precession], the [https://
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• Middle Ages
  ...'Middle Ages''', or '''Medieval period''', lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_R ...h of Western Europe; the Carolingian Empire in the later 8th and early 9th century, when it succumbed to the pressures of internal civil wars combined with ex
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• Queer
  ...]] over the course of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century] with some LGBT people re-claiming the term as a means of self-empowerment. ...English]] language in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 16th century] (related to the German quer, [[meaning]] "across, at right angle, diagonal
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• Chronicle
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] ...ents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan drama. Later 16th century Scottish chronicles, written after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott
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• Palace
  ....org/wiki/Aachen Aachen], of which only his [[chapel]] remains. In the 9th century the "palace" indicated the housing of the [[government]] too, and the const *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]
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• Music of the spheres
  ...these topics. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkindi Alkindi], in the 9th century, developed Ptolemy's ideas in ''De Aspectibus'' which [[explores]] many poi In the 17th century, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler Johannes Kepler], also infl
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• Sin
  ...sin derives from [[Old English]] synn, recorded in use as early as the 9th century.[1] The same [[root]] appears in several other Germanic languages, e.g. Old # Liddell and Scott: Greek-English Lexicon 9th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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• Viking
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century] ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widsith Widsith]'', which probably dates from the 9th century. In Old English, and in the history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen wr
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• Ether
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...kipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell]'s article in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, [[represents]] the historical posi
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• Publishing
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...blish a [[book]], to confiscate, in post-classical Latin also to denounce (9th cent.) is < pūblicuspublic adj. The α forms in [[English]] probably partl
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• David
  ...wiki/Tel_Dan_stele Tel Dan stele] records the [[existence]] in the mid-9th century of a Judean royal dynasty called the "House of David".
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• Feudalism
  ...dal system first [[appears]] in definite form in the Frankish lands in the 9th and 10th cent. A long dispute between [[scholars]] as to whether its [[inst ...h lands by the end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Century 10th century.
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• Byzantine
  ...of [[Constantinople]] by [[Constantine I]] the Great or at the end of that century with the division of the empire into Eastern and Western halves under the s ...uring of the Byz. [[economy]] and administration. In the first half of the 9th C. occurred the first stages of the process of recovery and consolidation t
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• Automaton
  ...ics, pneumatics, and mechanics were translated into Latin in the sixteenth century, Hero’s readers initiated reconstruction of his machines, which included ...urious account on automata is found in the Lie Zi text, written in the 3rd century BC. Within it there is a description of a much earlier encounter between Ki
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• Molecule
  ...fflin Co.ISBN 0-395-43302-9, Brown, T.L., Chemistry – the Central Science, 9th Ed.Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-066997-0, Chang, Raymond, Chemistry, 6th Ed., M ...existence of molecules was accepted by many chemists since the early 19th century as a result of [[John Dalton|Dalton's]] laws of Definite and Multiple Propo
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• Philistine
  ...esses III]]'s reign written in the reign of [[Ramesses IV]]. [[Nineteenth-century]] [[Bible]] scholars identified the land of the Philistines (''Philistia'') ...y, the "[[Sea Peoples]]," who had wandered, at the beginning of the [[12th century BC]], from their homeland in [[Crete]] and the [[Aegean islands]] to the sh
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• Heliand
  ...in the first half of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Century ninth century]. The title means [[saviour]] in Old Saxon (cf. German and Dutch Heiland [[ ...ten probably late in the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Century 10th century], is nearly complete, ending in the middle of the [[story]] of the journey
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• Roman law
  ...e law that was applied throughout most of Europe until the end of the 18th century. In some countries like [[Germany]] the practical application of Roman law ...n the early [[Roman Republic|Republic]], dating from the middle of the 5th century BC. According to Roman historians, the plebeian tribune C. Terentilius Arsa
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