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• Amphitheater
  ...ding with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open [[space]] and used in ancient [[Rome]] especially for contests and [[spectacle]]s ...wn as [[natural]] amphitheatres. Special [[events]] and games were held in ancient [[Roman]] amphitheatres, such as the gladiator [[games]].
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• Palestine
  ...ometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and was later used for the Roman province [https://en.wikipe ...ncient_Greeks Ancient Greeks], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire Byzantines], the Sunni [h
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• Auspice
  In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome ancient Roman religion], the auspices provided divine [[signs]] to be [[interpreted ...because of both their [[connection]] to Rome’s [[foundation]] and because Romans were the first to take the system and lay out such fixed and fundamental [[
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• Colonialism
  ...ent_Greece Ancient Greece] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Ancient Rome], this fact has been addressed by empires adopting the concept of univ ...ia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana Pax Romana]. The use of universal regulation by the Romans marks the [[emergence]] of a European concept of universalism and internati
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• Temple
  ...a often capitalized : either of two [[successive]] national sanctuaries in ancient [[Jerusalem]] ...for any number of religions and is even used for time periods prior to the Romans.
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• Mnemonic
  ...mnemonic" is derived from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] word μνημονικός (mnēmonikos), [[meaning]] "of memory, or Ancient Greeks and Romans distinguished between two types of memory: the "[[natural]]" memory and the
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• Hades
  ...ncient_Greek Ancient Greek] Ἅιδης/ᾍδης, Hāidēs; Doric Ἀΐδας Aidas) was the ancient Greek god of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_underworld underworld ...Latinized as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_(mythology) Pluto]. The Romans would associate Hades/Pluto with their own [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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• Codex
  *1. an ancient [[manuscript]] [[text]] in [[book]] form. ...gradual replacement of the [[scroll]], the dominant form of book in the [[ancient]] world, has been termed the most important advance in the history of the b
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• Crucifixion
  '''Crucifixion''' is an ancient [[method]] of [[pain]]ful execution in which the condemned [[person]] is ti ...as in use particularly among the Persians, Seleucids, Carthaginians, and [[Romans]] from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD, when in the year 337
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• Occident
  ...[[civilizations]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East ancient Near East]; later, they grew to the north and west to include Western Europ ...i/Islamic_Golden_Age Islamic Golden Age]. The Arab importation of both the Ancient and new technology from the Middle East and the [[Orient]] to Renaissance E
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• Autopsy
  ...rm "autopsy" derives from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] ''autopsia'', "to see for oneself", derived from αυτος (autos, Around 3000 BC [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egyptians] were one of the first civilizations to [[practice]] the removal
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• Classic
  ...ent_Greece ancient Greeks] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] or their [[culture]] : classical
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• Eclecticism
  ...wiki/New_Academic New Academics] Carneades and Philo of Larissa. Among the Romans, Cicero was thoroughly eclectic, as he united the [https://en.wikipedia.org
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• Throne
  ...in the iconography of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East Ancient Near East]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] also had two types of thrones- one for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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• 87:3 Ancestor Worship
  ...ere [[dedicated]] to some sort of [[ceremony]] [[associated]] with these [[ancient]] [[cults]]. One Roman emperor tried to reform these [[practices]] by reduc
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• Grotto
  ...arlands, slender [[architectural]] framework, foliations, and animals. The Romans who found them thought them very [[strange]], a sentiment enhanced by their ...sey Odyssey]''. The [[numinous]] [[quality]] of the grotto is still more [[ancient]], of course: in a grotto near [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos Knoss
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• Latin
  ...ted from [[Proto-Indo-European]] except in pronouns, although in prose the Romans tended to favor a SOV word order. [[Syntax]] is revealed through a systemic
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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 ...a.org/wiki/Terrace_(agriculture) terracing]. The Jewish Revolt against the Romans ended in the devastation of vast areas of the Judaean countryside.
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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) " *1: an ancient region of southwestern Asia in present-day Iraq, lying between the Tigris a
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• Physician
  The [[word]] '''physician''' comes from the Ancient [[Greek]] word φύσις (physis) and its derived adjective physikos, mean ...so had the word archiater, for court physician. Archiater derives from the ancient Greek ἀρχιατρός (from ἄρχω + ἰατρός, chief healer). B
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