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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...ian_polychoral_style polychoral] [[composition]]. In typical 18th- to 21st-century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio oratorios] and [https://en.wikipedi

...nd [[Sumer]] in the south combined in the first half of the 2nd millennium bc . ...ipedia.org/wiki/Hammurabi Hammurabi] in the first half of the 18th century BC, becoming a major capital city. During the reign of Hammurabi and afterward

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...tarting from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_century_BC 2nd century BC] through the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple#Destruction destr

...t the Greek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint] (ca. 250 BC) to translate the Hebrew equivalent ''Naharaim''. ..._Alexander The Anabasis of Alexander]'', which was written in the late 2nd century AD, but specifically refers to sources from the time of [https://en.wikiped

...n. There were no such dictatorships after the beginning of the 2nd century BC, and later dictators such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla Sulla] an ...e [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] and early 21st century hereditary dictatorship remained a relatively common [[phenomenon]].

...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_of_Samosata Lucian of Samosata] (2nd century AD) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides ...idippides]. Browning's poem, his composite story, became part of late 19th century popular culture and was accepted as a historic legend.[citation needed]

...ally divided into four periods: Old Academy 347-267 BC, New Academy 267-80 BC, Middle Platonism 80BC-250 AD, and Neoplatonism 250 AD through to the Refor ...of the second century AD, Pre-Gnosticism was present in the second century BC. This syncretism is clearly seen in the parallelism of the Rabbinic writing

...cily|Sicilian]] poets [[Sophron]] and [[Epicharmus]] had cultivated half a century earlier. The works of these writers, which Plato admired and imitated, hav ...-drawing. He must have begun this about the year [[405 BC]], and by [[399 BC|399]] he had brought the dialogue to its highest perfection, especially in

* [[Melchizedek]] (18th century BC), a priest. According to some [[translation]]s of [[Hebrews]] 7:3: "Without * The Wandering Jew (b. 1st century BC), a Jewish shoemaker. According to legend, he taunted [[Jesus]] on his way

...r in terms of monotheism by the emergence of Rabbinical Judaism in the 2nd century AD.[5] ...der Horst (eds), "Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible" (revised 2nd edition, Brill, 1999) p.274, 352-3

...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pata%C3%B1jali Patañjali] in the 2nd century BC. Someone who practices yoga or follows the yoga philosophy with a high leve

...than one thousand years from the law of the [[twelve tables]] (from [[449 BC]]) to the [[Corpus Juris Civilis]] of Emperor [[Justinian I]] (around [[53 ...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

...hip of [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]], in the last quarter of the [[8th century BC]] there is a steady increase of artifacts found at the settlement site in D ...to that of [[Dodona]]: both Aeschylus and Euripides, writing in the fifth century, attribute to primeval times the same methods as used at Delphi in their ow

...ars to have developed between the 7th millennium BC and the 4th millennium BC, first in the form of early mnemonic symbols which became a system of ideog ...ut. At Nineveh, 22,000 tablets were found, dating from the seventh century BC; this was the archive and library of the kings of Assyria, who had workshop

...lassic." According to [[tradition]], it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zhou D ...in English. The pinyin romanization Daodejing originated in the late 20th century, and this romanization is becoming increasingly popular, having been adopte

...aqua vitae (alcohol) and of the mineral acids, both before the thirteenth century; the preparation of vitriol and the alums. ...post-Renaissance alchemical literature. An author quoted by the fifteenth-century Rosarium philosophorum declares that "only he who knows how to make the Phi

...oss generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, [[England|English]] and [[France|French]] religious scholars popularized t ...he mid-eighteenth century and [[Thomas Jefferson]] in the early nineteenth century. In the United States academia tends to be politically progressive with 72%

...[[Africa]] 9,000 years before the time of [[Solon]], or approximately 9500 BC. After a failed attempt to invade [[Athens]], Atlantis sank into the ocean ...the failed [[Sicilian Expedition|Athenian invasion of Sicily]] in 415-413 BC.

...Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th century and the Codex Alexandrinus of the 5th century - these are the oldest surviving nearly-complete manuscripts of the [[Old T ...erous processes of redaction, emerging in their current form in around 450 BC. A number of anomalous sources not traceable to any of the three major docu

...]] was a semi-legendary Indian monk who traveled to [[China]] in the [[5th century]]. There, at the [[Shaolin Temple]], he began the Ch'an school of Buddhism, ...first appears in Egypt (and North Africa) beginning in the 2nd millennium BC.

...nsisted of [[grammar]], logic, and [[rhetoric]]. Since the mid-nineteenth century ''formal logic'' has been studied in the context of [[foundations of mathem ...han two millennia, while symbolic logic is comparatively new, only about a century old.

...re''. ''Civilization'' can also refer to society as a whole. To nineteenth-century [[England|English]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] [[Edward Burnett Tylor] ...to ''civility'', meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the 18th century.

...often considered to be synonymous with '''astrophysics'''. Since the 20th century, the field of professional astronomy split into observational and theoretic ...pse/SEsaros/SEsaros.html Eclipses and the Saros saros]. In the 2nd century BC, the size and distance of the Moon were estimated by [https://www-groups.dc

...etymology of ''Nazareth'' from as early as [[Eusebius]] up until the 20th century has been said to derive from ''netser'', a "shoot" or "sprout", while the [ ..., pp. 272-310.) attesting to unambiguous human presence there from the 2nd century AD onward.

...ization, in the archaeological site of Tell Mardikh in Syria dated to 2300 BC. He may have been a desert god at some point, as the myths say that he had A Phoenician inscribed amulet of the 7th century BCE from Arslan Tash may refer to ʼĒl. Rosenthal (1969, p. 658) translate

...e ''Genesis'' narratives. After its actual decline, beginning about [[1500 BC]], Dilmun developed such a reputation as a long-lost garden of exotic perfe .... ''The Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan''. Wine Pr. Publishing, 2nd edition (1997). ISBN 1579210074</ref> (though this claim has been disputed)

In the late 20th Century the appellation of a 'prophet' has been used to refer to individuals partic ...wn is [[Nostradamus]], who was born in France at the beginning of the 16th century.

...distinct philosophies (or [[Ideology|ideologies]]) began in the late 20th century, opposing [[classical liberalism]] and [[capitalism]] while advocating phen ...ange Trading Systems were first developed by Michael Linton, in Courtenay, BC, ''see'' [https://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/home.html "LETSystems - new

...hers for their "impious rites." Greek ''magikos'' is attested from the 1st century [[Plutarch]], typically appearing in the feminine, in μαγική τέχν ...influences [[destiny|fate]]." ''Sorceress'' appears also in the late 14th century, while ''sorcerer'' is attested only from 1526.