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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.wikipedi4 KB (557 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
- ...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 afterward4 KB (557 words) - 19:16, 26 January 2016
- *[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 destr3 KB (404 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...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.wikiped5 KB (814 words) - 18:50, 26 January 2016
- ...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]].3 KB (441 words) - 23:59, 12 December 2020
- ...[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]5 KB (776 words) - 01:21, 13 December 2020
- ...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 writing10 KB (1,436 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
- ...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 in14 KB (2,141 words) - 00:16, 13 December 2020
- * [[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 way13 KB (2,059 words) - 00:02, 13 December 2020
- ...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, 352-311 KB (1,856 words) - 00:37, 13 December 2020
- ...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 leve6 KB (907 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
- ...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 law27 KB (4,354 words) - 01:49, 13 December 2020
- ...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 ow25 KB (4,013 words) - 01:21, 13 December 2020
- ...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 workshop27 KB (4,202 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
- ...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 adopte27 KB (4,171 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...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 Phi17 KB (2,706 words) - 23:41, 12 December 2020
- ...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%33 KB (5,046 words) - 23:36, 12 December 2020
- ...[[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.34 KB (5,126 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
- ...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 docu50 KB (8,253 words) - 00:37, 13 December 2020
- ...]] 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.29 KB (4,292 words) - 01:17, 13 December 2020
- ...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.33 KB (4,933 words) - 01:20, 13 December 2020
- ...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.43 KB (6,155 words) - 23:41, 12 December 2020
- ...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.dc39 KB (5,838 words) - 23:43, 12 December 2020
- ...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.29 KB (4,373 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
- ...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) translate27 KB (4,610 words) - 00:36, 13 December 2020
- ...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)29 KB (4,698 words) - 00:04, 13 December 2020
- 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.33 KB (5,146 words) - 02:35, 13 December 2020
- ...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 - new37 KB (5,356 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
- ...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 1526.47 KB (7,281 words) - 01:20, 13 December 2020