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• Catapult
  *1: an [[ancient]] [[military]] device for hurling missiles ...were invented by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks ancient Greeks].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult]
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• Obelisk
  ...describe them, and this word passed into Latin and ultimately [[English]]. Ancient obelisks are monolithic; that is, they consist of a single stone. Apart fro
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• Barbarism
  ...l Latin barbarinus, from [[Latin]] barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient [[Greek]] word βάρβαρος (bárbaros). The word is [https://en.wikipe ...arbarízein) in ancient Greek meant imitating the [[linguistic]] sounds non-Greeks made or making [[grammatical]] errors in [[Greek]].[https://en.wikipedia.or
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• Palestine
  ...ometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and was later used for the Roman province [https://en.wikipe ...id_Empire Persians], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans], [https://en.wikipedi
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• Aristocracy
  ...was assumed that the armies were being led by "the best". From the ancient Greeks, the term passed on to the European [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_A As in ancient Greece, this was a class of [[privilege]]d men whose military role allowed
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• Mnemonic
  ...mnemonic" is derived from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] word μνημονικός (mnēmonikos), [[meaning]] "of memory, or Ancient Greeks and Romans distinguished between two types of memory: the "[[natural]]" mem
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• Patriotism
  ...cessarily considered an [[inherent]] part of patriotism. Among the ancient Greeks, patriotism consisted of notions concerning [[language]], [[religious]] [[t ...and denouncing excessive penal laws were all considered patriotic. In both ancient and modern visions of patriotism, [[individual]] [[responsibility]] to fell
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• Hades
  ...le crops, from the soil come the metals and so on), c. 5th century BCE the Greeks started referring to Hades as Πλούτων, Ploutōn, a name that is an a ...ncient_Greek Ancient Greek] Ἅιδης/ᾍδης, Hāidēs; Doric Ἀΐδας Aidas) was the ancient Greek god of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_underworld underworld
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• Autonomous
  ...e's own rule. Though the notion of ''autonomism'' was alien to the ancient Greeks, whose society was not an all-[[inclusive]] one, the concept is indirectly '''Autonomy''' (Ancient [[Greek]]: αὐτονομία autonomia from αὐτόνομος autonomos
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• Kairos
  ...eans weather in both ancient and modern Greek. The plural, καιροί (kairoi (Ancient Gk. and Mod. Gk.)) means ''the times''.
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• Occident
  ...[[civilizations]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East ancient Near East]; later, they grew to the north and west to include Western Europ ...i/Islamic_Golden_Age Islamic Golden Age]. The Arab importation of both the Ancient and new technology from the Middle East and the [[Orient]] to Renaissance E
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• Macrocosm and Microcosm
  ...parts of the ordered universe both large and small. Philosophically, the Greeks were concerned with a rational explanation of everything and saw the repeti ==Ancient thought==
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• Classic
  ...f or relating to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] or their [[culture
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• Gymnasium
  ...alizing and engaging in [[intellectual]] pursuits. The name comes from the Ancient Greek term ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B3%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%BD%CF%8C ...e than [[exercise]]. This [[development]] arose through recognition by the Greeks of the strong relation between athletics, [[education]] and [[health]]. Acc
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• Eloquence
  The [[concept]] of eloquence dates to the ancient [[Greek]]s, [[Calliope]],(one of the nine daughters of [[Zeus]] and [[Mnemo ...ade others to a point of view. Petrarch encouraged students to imitate the ancient writers, from a language [[perspective]], combining clear and correct speec
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• Classics
  ...uring the time known as [[classical antiquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Er ...eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• 90:4 Medicine Under the Shamans
  90:4.1 The entire life of [[ancient]] men was prophylactic; their [[religion]] was in no small measure a [[tech ...h]] required to get well under the foolish ministrations of one of these [[ancient]] [[shamans]] was, after all, not materially [[different]] from that which
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• Hubris
  ==Ancient Greek origin== In ancient Greece, hubris ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek ancient Greek] ὕβρις) referred to [[actions]] that [[shame]]d and humiliated
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• Euphemism
  ...s a euphemism by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece ancient Greeks], [[meaning]] "to keep a [[holy]] [[silence]]" (speaking well by not speaki
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• Meander
  ...key and known to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks] as Μαίανδρος Maiandros (Latin: Maeander), characterised by a very The Meander River is located south of Izmir, east of the ancient Greek town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miletus Miletus], now, Milet,
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