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• China
  late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 16th century] (as an adjective): from Persian chīnī ‘relating to China’, where it ...rket-oriented reforms were introduced in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
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• Catacombs
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] ...y 1836 to refer to any subterranean receptacle of the dead, as in the 18th-century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris Paris catacombs].
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• Hymn
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...C, praising deities of the ancient Greek religions. Surviving from the 3rd century BC is a collection of six literary hymns (Ὕμνοι) by the Alexandrian p
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• Sanhedrin
  ...vals] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat Shabbat]. In the late 3rd century, to avoid persecution, its authoritative decisions were issued under the na
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• Gears
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrian_school Alexandrian school] in the 3rd century B.C. and were greatly developed by the Greek polymath [https://en.wikipedia
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• Baptism
  *Date: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...rial and [[archaeological]] [[evidence]] of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onwards indicates that the normal form was to have the candidate stand in w
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• Sumer
  ...one in Sumer of any kind that have been dated before Enmebaragesi (c. 26th century BC). Professor Juris Zarins believes the Sumerians were settled along the c ...iki/Jemdat_Nasr_period Jemdat Nasr] and Early Dynastic periods. During the 3rd millennium BC, a close cultural symbiosis developed between the Sumerians (
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• Autopsy
  ...rg/wiki/Herophilus_of_Chalcedon Herophilus of Chalcedon], who lived in 3rd century BC Alexandria, but in general, autopsies were rare in ancient Greece. In 44 The great 19th-century medical researcher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow Rudolf Vir
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• Mesopotamia
  ..._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 ...tian native Mesopotamian states existed between the 1st century BC and 3rd century AD, including Adiabene, Osroene, and Hatra.
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• Piety
  .../Ashoka Ashoka] the Great referred to himself in the Edicts of Ashoka (3rd century BC).
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• The Enlightenment
  ...in Western [[philosophy]] and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century, in which [[reason]] was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for ...ication), signifying generally the philosophical outlook of the eighteenth century. However, the German term Aufklärung was not merely applied retrospectivel
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• Querulous
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] ...cal Latin querelosus (also querellosus) quarrelsome, complaining (Vulgate; 3rd cent.), [[painful]], distressing (4th or 5th cent. in Augustine), of or rel
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• Drowning
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...wiki/World_Health_Organization World Health Organization], drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional [[injury]] [[death]] worldwide, accounting f
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• Utopian
  ...], a [[writer]] from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_century_BC 3rd century BC].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia]
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• Utopia
  ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euhemerus Euhemerus], a [[writer]] from the 3rd century BC.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia]
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• Fallen angel
  ...taken to identify the "sons of God" of Gen 6:1 and 4 as angels. By the 3rd century, there is [[evidence]] that some early Christians accepted this Jewish Enoc
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• Macrocosm and Microcosm
  ...evels of the [[cosmos]]. It may have begun with [[Democritus]] in the 5th century B.C. or with [[Pythagoras]] and is a philosophical conception that runs th ...e earliest known usage of this schema, among them, can be dated to the 3rd century BCE by the Greek [[Olympiadorus]], who stated, ''"the mythic Hermes calls m
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• Tapestry
  ...have been found preserved in the desert of Tarim Basin dating from the 3rd century BC. Tapestry reached a new stage in Europe in the early fourteenth century AD. The first wave of production originated in Germany and Switzerland. Ove
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• Triad
  ...s carried by [[Roman]] soldiery dating from the mid 1st century to the 3rd century AD. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Green Miranda Green] observes th
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• Maitreya
  ...of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabha Amitābha], as early as the 3rd century CE.
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• Pilgrims
  ...ilgrimages to Jerusalem] Descriptions of pilgrimages to Jerusalem from the 3rd-20th centuries ...] Illustrations of 13th-16th century pilgrims, and links to photos of 16th century clothing made for pilgrimage
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• Soul
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century] ...', first attested to in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_century 8th-century] poem [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf Beowulf] v. 2820 and in the Ve
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• Wheel
  *Date: before [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Century 12th century] ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization Indus Valley] by the 3rd millennium BCE. During the 2nd millennium BCE, the spoke-wheeled chariot sp
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• Adolf von Harnack
  In the 19th century, [[higher criticism]] flourished in Germany, establishing the [[historical- ...f this appeared in 1889 with the title ''Grundriss der Dogmengeschichte'' (3rd ed., 1898).
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• Astrology
  ...a period of gradual separation from the [[Renaissance]] up until the 18th century. Eventually, astronomy distinguished itself as the [[scientific]] [[study]]
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• Measure
  * Date: 13th century * [https://www.euramet.org/index.php?id=mis 'Metrology – in short' 3rd edition, July 2008 ISBN 978-87-988154-5-7]
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• 2012-09-08-Stefan's Story-A Roman Soldier Finds Jesus
  ...entiments towards the locals. The centurion of our century, the 4th of the 3rd cohort, Marcus Verennus, was a very vicious veteran of those revolts and co ...ears, as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesserarius TESSERARIUS] of my century, in the year [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/97_AD 97 AD], under the reign o
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• Anti-gravity
  ...in the early part of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century] Newton's [[model]] was replaced by the more general and complete descripti ...nference on Experiments/Process/System Modeling/Simulation & Optimization (3rd IC-EpsMsO), Athens, 8-11 July
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• Library Science
  ...perhaps the best known example of an early library, flourishing in the 3rd century BC and possibly inspired by [[Demetrius Phalereus]]. ===19th century===
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• Infinite
  The [[Isha Upanishad]] of the [[Yajurveda]] (c. 4th to 3rd century BC) states that "if you remove a part from infinity or add a part to infini
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• Womanhood
  ...ther [[sex]]" in [[English]]; it was only around the beginning of the 16th century that it came to mean specifically a female child. Nowadays girl sometimes i *Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003 3rd edition) ISBN 0-618-25414-5
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• Biological Alchemy, Wings of Isis
  The chakras/glands associated with the WINGS OF ISIS are the pituitary (3rd eye/brow) and the pineal (crown) other wise known as the 6th and 7th chakra ...kundalini effects ... electrical / magnetic / plasmic vibrant colours .... 3rd eye peripheral vision .... this sometimes can be heard as a hum .... or ele
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• Roman law
  ...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 ...n the early [[Roman Republic|Republic]], dating from the middle of the 5th century BC. According to Roman historians, the plebeian tribune C. Terentilius Arsa
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• Automaton
  ...ics, pneumatics, and mechanics were translated into Latin in the sixteenth century, Hero’s readers initiated reconstruction of his machines, which included ...urious account on automata is found in the Lie Zi text, written in the 3rd century BC. Within it there is a description of a much earlier encounter between Ki
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• Force
  ...standings of the role of force which were eventually corrected in the 17th century, culminating in the work of [[Isaac Newton]]. Following the development of ...an incline to disprove the Aristotelian theory of motion early in the 17th century. He showed that the bodies were accelerated by [[gravity]] to an extent whi
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• Heliand
  ...in the first half of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Century ninth century]. The title means [[saviour]] in Old Saxon (cf. German and Dutch Heiland [[ ...ten probably late in the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Century 10th century], is nearly complete, ending in the middle of the [[story]] of the journey
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• 2007-12-10-Co-Creative Design Team
  ...am. [Sondjah had mentioned the ‘sustainable society as being in the 23rd century to give students a perspective of a future, sustainable society to work tow ...al stability, procreation—very few today are about love. I think the 23rd Century in a marriage, as we know it today, cannot work in a peaceful, harmonious c
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• Tao Te Ching
  ...jīng "classic." 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 Zho ...in English. The pinyin romanization Daodejing originated in the late 20th century, and this romanization is becoming increasingly popular, having been adopte
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• Transformation
  ...f thousand years (although its present form dates to around the 4th or 5th century c.e.). Unlike classic Hinduism, the traditional Samkhyan philosophy is [[at .... And while essentially a [[static]] worldview, by the 18th and early 19th century it had been "temporalized" by the [[concept]] of the soul ascending or prog
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• Mind maps
  ...d maps were developed by [[Porphyry of Tyros]], a noted thinker of the 3rd century as he graphically visualised the concept categories of [[Aristotle]]. [[Ra
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• Paradigm
  ...t appear to be stable and mature, as in [[physics]] at the end of the 19th century. At that time, physics seemed to be a discipline filling in the last few de * Kuhn, Thomas S. ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'', 3rd Ed. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN 0-226-45808-3
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• Gravity
  ...early cultures#India|ancient India]] explained the phenomenon from the 8th century BC. In the 4th century BC, the [[Greek philosophy|Greek philosopher]] [[Aristotle]] believed that
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• Art History
  ...ory is a relatively new academic enterprise, beginning in the [[nineteenth century]].<ref>Art History and Its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline By Eli ...r [[Apelles]]. Similar, though independent, developments occurred in [[6th century]] [[China]], where a canon of worthy artists was established by writers in
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• Self Esteem
  ...890, after being in the proto-psychological lore of phrenology in the 19th century[8]. ...m that informed discussion of human growth and development in the mid-20th century is ignored; indeed, the terms themselves are considered politically incorre
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• Shame
  Nineteenth century scientist [[Charles Darwin]], in his book ''The Expression of the Emotions # Kaufman, Gershen (1992), Shame: The Power of Caring (3rd ed.), Schenkman Books, Rochester, VT, ISBN 0-87047-052-3
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• Nazareth
  ...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.
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• The Book of Revelation
  ...Apocalypse of John are interpreted as being fulfilled by events in the 1st century. ...se in the Ancient Church, (c. 1929), pp. 139-142, esp. p. 138 In the [[9th century]], it was included with the ''[[Apocalypse of Peter]]'' among "disputed" bo
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• Metaphysics
  ...l activity unlike the rest of philosophy, and by the end of the eighteenth century, it had begun to be called "science" in order to distinguish it from [[phil ...us dictionaries trace its first appearance in English to the mid-sixteenth century, although in some cases as early as 1387.[https://dictionary.reference.com/
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• Merkabah
  ...historians of Jewish mysticism usually date this development to the third century CE. Again, there is a significant dispute amongst historians over whether [[Maimonides]]' 12th Century work, ''[[Guide for the Perplexed]]'' is in part intended as an explanation
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• Time
  ...[[Catania]], [[Sicily]] ([[264 BCE]]), which gave the incorrect time for a century, until the markings appropriate for the latitude of [[Rome]] were used ([[1 ...the past through the present. This was widely discussed in around the 3rd century CE.
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