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• Mediterranean Sea
  ...Carthaginian]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] cultures. The [[history of the Mediterranean]] is crucial to u ...neus'', 'inland' (''medius'', 'middle' + ''terra'', 'land, earth'). To the ancient Romans, the Mediterranean was the center of the Earth as they knew it.
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• Space
  ...atics]] which measures spatial relations, was popularised by the [[ancient Greeks]], although earlier societies had developed measuring systems. The [[SI|Int
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• Paper 85 - The Origins of Worship
  85:1.3 All [[ancient]] [[clans]] and [[tribes]] had their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_my ...[superstitious]] [[practice]] of rapping on wood perpetuate certain of the ancient [[customs]] of tree worship and the later-day tree cults.
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• Atlantis
  '''Atlantis''' (in [[Ancient Greek|Greek]], Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος}, "island of [[Atlas (mythol ...stic Atlantis in ''Critias'' — would have made the strategy of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek civilization]] during their conflict with the [[Achaemenid Emp
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• Euthanasia
  ...nor give advice which may cause his death.”[11] Despite this, the ancient Greeks and Romans generally did not believe that life needed to be preserved at an ...of [[pleasure]] lures--this introduces a new factor into racial survival; ancient man exposed undesired children to die; moderns refuse to bear them.[https:/
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• Paper 80 - Andite Expansion in the Occident
  80:3.1 The [[ancient]] [[centers]] of the [[culture]] of the blue man were located along all the .../wiki/Kurd highland home north of Mesopotamia]. These progenitors of the [[Greeks]] were led westward by Sato, a direct descendant of [https://nordan.daynal.
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• Eastern philosophy
  ...often overlooked in many North American and European universities, just as ancient "Western" and monotheistic claims are also overlooked in the last few decad ...Lokayata or Lokyāta, was a materialist and atheist school of thought with ancient roots in India. It proposed a system of ethics based on rational thought. H
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• Paper 86 - Early Evolution of Religion
  ...n of [[chance]] and [[luck]] strongly pervaded the [[philosophy]] of all [[ancient]] peoples. Even in recent times in the [[Wisdom of Solomon]] it is said: "I ...rent]] [[idea]] regarding the [[destiny]] of the [[ghost]] [[soul]]. The [[Greeks]] believed that weak men must have weak [[souls]]; so they invented [https:
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• Chemistry
  ...als (e.g. [[History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent|metallurgy in ancient India]]). The greed for gold led to the discovery of the process for its pu ...a science was almost created by the Muslims; for in this field, where the Greeks (so far as we know) were confined to industrial experience and vague [[hypo
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• Metaphysics
  ...a broad scope, and in many cases was founded in [[religion]]. The ancient Greeks did not draw a distinction between this use and their model for the [[cosmo The Greeks took some extreme positions on the nature of change: [[Parmenides]] denied
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• Roman law
  ...broader sense, one may say that Roman law is not only the legal system of ancient Rome but the law that was applied throughout most of Europe until the end o A view (Jenő Szmodis, 2005) suggests that the ancient roots of the Roman Law derive directly from the Etruscan religion, which pu
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• Orality
  ...rd University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1963. In other societies, such as [[ancient Egypt]] or [[medieval Europe]], literacy has been a domain confined to poli ...patterns, gestures and the bilateral symmetry of the human body in several ancient verse traditions.cited in Ong, p. 34. Marcel Jousse. ''Le Parlant, la par
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• Paper 195 - After Pentecost
  ..._civilization Hellenized]. [[Christianity]] owes much, very much, to the [[Greeks]]. It was a Greek, from Egypt, who so [[bravely]] stood up at [https://en.w ==195:1. INFLUENCE OF THE GREEKS==
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• Paper 95 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant
  ...transmitted to subsequent [[civilizations]] through the [[Hebrews]] and [[Greeks]], much, very much, of the [[social]] and [[ethical]] [[idealism]] of the E ...also augmented by the periodic arrival of [[teachers]] of [[truth]], in [[ancient]] times from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 s
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• Sacrifice
  ...[Greek]]s and [[Roman]]s (particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio) , Ancient Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis )and from the Aztecs to the Yoru Human sacrifice was practiced by many ancient cultures. People would be [[ritual]]ly killed in a [[manner]] that was supp
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• Paper 83 - The Marriage Institution
  ...ng of the bride over the [[threshold]] is reminiscent of a [[number]] of [[ancient]] [[practices]], among others, of the days of [[wife]] [https://en.wikipedi 83:4.8 One of the most [[ancient]] forms of the wedding [[ceremony]] was to have a [[priest]] [[bless]] the
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• Perfection
  ...6th-century writer Joseph Juste Scaliger, and they in turn referred to the ancient philosopher Empedocles. Their argument, as given by the first two, was that ...t Greeks called them "teleioi." There was, however, no consensus among the Greeks as to which numbers were "perfect" or why. A view that was shared by Plato
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• Paper 89 - Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement
  ...boos]], all [[expressed]] in the same [[negative]] form as were the most [[ancient]] prohibitions. But these newer codes were truly emancipating in that they 89:1.6 [[Methods]] of eating soon became taboo, and so originated [[ancient]] and [[modern]] table [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette etiquette].
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• Logic
  '''Logic''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Classical Greek]] λόγος [[logos]]; meaning word, thought, idea, ...rvived was that of [[Aristotle]]. Morris Kline, "Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972, ISBN 0-19-506135-7, p.53 "A
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• Theocracy
  ...ibe the characteristic government for Jews. Josephus argued that while the Greeks recognized three types of government: [[monarchy]], [[aristocracy]], and [[ In ancient Greece and Rome denying the gods of the state was a crime. In ancient Rome, the emperors were often deified.[citation needed]
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