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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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• 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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• 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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• Meander
  ...-day Turkey and known to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks] as Μαίανδρος Maiandros (Latin: Maeander), characterised by The Meander River is located south of Izmir, east of the ancient Greek town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miletus Miletus], now, Milet,
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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) " ...he Great]. In the ''Anabasis'', Mesopotamia was used to designate the land east of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates Euphrates] in north Syria.
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