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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]
  4 KB (516 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
• 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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