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• China
  late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 16th century] (as an adjective) ...uage, Chinese (Mandarin is the official form). Official name '''''People's Republic of China'''''.
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• Forum
  ...ity]] footprint. Forums were a regular part of every Roman province in the Republic and the Empire, with archaeological examples at:
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• Latin
  ...currency, especially in [[Europe]], as the official language of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, and, after Rome's conversion to Christianity, of the [[Ro ...lowed in the liturgy. Classical Latin, the literary language of the [[late Republic]] and [[early Empire]], is still taught in many primary, grammar, and secon
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• Dominate
  ...ays of the 'uncrowned' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic Roman Republic]. ...tus was that he came to incarnate the notion (abstract under the uncrowned republic) of the majesty of Rome, so that lese majeste became high treason.
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• New York City
  ...greeted millions of [[immigrants]] as they came to America by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a globally recognized [[symbol]] of th
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• Titian
  ...ssance]]. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called ''Da Cadore'', taken fro ...ontours in early works may be described as "crisp and clear", while of his late methods it was said that "he painted more with his fingers than his brushes
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• Intellectual
  ...anguage|French]] ''littérateur''). The Republic of Letters grew during the late 1700s in France in salons, many of which were run by women. The term is rar By the late eighteenth century, literacy was becoming more widespread in countries such
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• Fredric Lehrman
  ...ractical for musical hands. For nine years he was a senior student of the late Tai Chi master, Cheng Man-ch'ing, and founded several permanent schools of ...an Francisco; the Center for Soviet American Dialogue, Seattle, and Banana Republic Clothing Stores. He was a senior trainer for LRT International, a relation
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• Jane Roberts
  In late 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, experimented with a [http In the realm of [[science]], the only criticism that the late amateur physicist [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xb89AAAAIAAJ&printsec=
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• Mediterranean Sea
  * The [[Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus]], recognized only by [[Turkey]] [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]], [[Portugal]], [[San Marino]], [[Serbia]], and the
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• United States
  ...nally, the "States". "Columbia", a name popular in poetry and songs of the late 1700s,[35] derives its origin from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph ...[[America]], is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic federal republic] consisting of fifty states and a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_di
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• Communism
  ...outside of Europa survive till now, the most important of them is People's Republic of China, trying to introduce market reforms without rapid democratization. ...ian and [[collectivist]] society can be traced into antiquity. Plato's The Republic suggests [[collective]] [[education]] of children and control of possession
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• Pantheistic
  ...se], canvassing [[diverse]] forms of pantheistic [[piety]] since the early republic, considered [[nature]] [[religion]] in America "alive and well, growing dai
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• Population
  An important example of mandated population control is People's Republic of China's one-child policy, in which having more than one child is made ex ...dards caused India to implement an official family planning program in the late 1950s and early 1960s; it was the first country in the world to do so.
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• Roman law
  ...]], the first important piece of legislation in the early [[Roman Republic|Republic]], dating from the middle of the 5th century BC. According to Roman histori ...very sophisticated legal system and a refined legal culture when the Roman republic was replaced by the monarchical system of the [[principate]] in [[27 BC]].
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• Philosophy
  ...philosophers such as [[Plato]]. The Medieval period runs until roughly the late [[1400s]] and the [[Renaissance]]. The "Modern" is a word with more varied ...s' words. Interestingly, in his most famous work, ''[[Plato's Republic|The Republic]]'', Plato critiques democracy, condemns tyranny, and proposes a three tier
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• Hegemony
  The term hegemon is also used to describe Japan's three unifiers in the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century. Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hid The dominance of the Dutch Republic during the 17th Century (1609-1672) can be considered one of the first inst
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• George Soros
  ...ady Antonia Fraser and the late Sir Hugh Fraser, and a stepdaughter of the late 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.[11] ...rge Soros doing throwing wads of money around in Eastern Europe?", The New Republic, 10 January 1994. See also Kaufman, Michael T., Soros: The Life and Times o
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• Theology
  '''Theology''' is a term first used by [[Plato]] in The [[Republic]] (book ii, chap 18). The term is compounded from two Greek words <i>theos<
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• Atlantis
  ...epresenting the very antithesis of the "perfect" traits described in the ''Republic''. Critias claims that his accounts of ancient Athens and Atlantis stem fr In middle and late 19th century, several renowned [[Mesoamerica]]n scholars, starting with [[C
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