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• Choir
  *[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
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• Babylonia
  ...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
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• Sadducees
  *[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
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• Mesopotamia
  ...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
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• Dictatorship
  ...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]].
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• Marathon
  ...[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]
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• Christ as Logos
  ...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
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• Dialogue
  ...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
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• Immortal
  * [[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
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• Elohim
  ...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
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• Yoga
  ...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
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• Roman law
  ...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
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• Oracle of Delphi
  ...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
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• Books
  ...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
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• Tao Te Ching
  ...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
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• Alchemy
  ...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
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• Academic
  ...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%
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• Atlantis
  ...[[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.
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• Genesis
  ...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
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• Eastern philosophy
  ...]] 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.
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