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• Latin
  ...[[Etruscan]] and [[Greek]] [[alphabets]] (''each of which is derived from the earlier [[Phoenician]] alphabet'' ...rom Latin. Latin's influence attests to its legacy as the lingua franca of the Western world for over a thousand years.
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• 121:1 The Occident of the First Century After Christ
  ...d by the [[tolerant]] [[political]] rule of the [[Mediterranean]] world by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident#The_Roman_Empire Romans]. ...of a Jewish [[Messiah]] in the [[Greek]] tongue, while he himself was a [[Roman]] [[citizen]].
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• Occident
  ...ocial]] situation). Accordingly, the basic definition of what constitutes "the West" varies, expanding and contracting over time, in relation to various h ...and cultural context, the Western World generally refers to the nations of the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and South Africa.
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• Empire
  ...n its final century of existence, was more a city-state than a territorial empire. ...e of “empire” denotes a strong, centrally-controlled nation-state, but, in the looser, quotidian, vernacular usage, it denotes a large-scale business ente
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• Catacombs
  ...xtended by 1836 to refer to any subterranean receptacle of the dead, as in the 18th-century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris Paris cataco :b : a [[complex]] set of interrelated things <the endless catacombs of formal [[education]] — Kingman Brewster †1988>
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• Mansion
  *1a obsolete : the [[act]] of remaining or dwelling : stay ...ping places; a stage. Used chiefly in the [[context]] of the [[Bible]] and the [[Middle East]].
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• Crusades
  ...turies to win the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land Holy Land] from the [[Muslims]] ...s, Cathars, Hussites, Waldensians, Old Prussians, and political enemies of the various [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope popes]. Orthodox Christians als
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• City of God
  ...t the Pagans") is a book written in [[Latin]] by [[Augustine of Hippo]] in the early 5th century, dealing with issues concerning [[God]], martyrdom, [[Jud ...riting that, even if the earthly rule of the empire was imperilled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph - symbolically, Augustine's eyes
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• Forum
  ...marketplace]] or [[public]] place of an ancient [[Roman]] [[city]] forming the [[center]] of [[judicial]] and [[public]] [[business]] ..."[[marketplace]]"; pl. fora) was the [[public]] space in the middle of a [[Roman]] city.
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• 2007-08-31-Missionaries of Old
  ...ion of the temple and the routing of that civilization, was not typical of Roman behavior in other lands. ...ppenings in Persia, India, China and Africa, far beyond the borders of the Empire, as it was known.
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• Dominate
  *1 : rule, [[control]] <an [[empire]] that dominated the world> *2 : to exert the [[supreme]] determining or guiding [[influence]] on <the [[ambition]] that has dominated his life>
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• Rome
  ...It is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber river. ...h]] and the site of the [[Vatican City]], an independent city-state run by the Catholic Church.
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• Byzantine
  ...covery of Constantinople by the Byz.) to 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks. ==Period of the Late Roman Empire (4th–mid-7th C.)==
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• 195:1 Influence of the Greeks
  ...ical]] [[emergence]]; [[Jesus]], at [[moral]] and [[spiritual]] emergence. The [[Greek]] taught [[intellectual]] [[liberalism]] leading to [[political]] [ ...reek]] [[mind]] was willing to borrow new and [[good]] [[ideas]] even from the [[Jews]].
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• State religion
  ...official religion) is a religious body or [[creed]] officially endorsed by the [[state]]. A state with an official religion, while not [[secular]], is not .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesia_(sociology_of_religion) ecclesiae], though the two are slightly different.
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• 2013-07-15-About Civilization
  ...tness, of building something great and beautiful for the future. Likewise, the United States had a similar ideal of America as a society and a goal toward .... The effort to do what is required diminishes and it is often replaced by the seek for pleasure and personal interests. This happens when material progre
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• Palace
  ...n the residence of the [[emperor]] rather than the neighbourhood on top of the hill. ...more centralized [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy monarchies], only the [[monarch]]'s [[Home|residence]] would be a palace.
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• Emcee
  ...MC may also tell [[jokes]] or [[anecdotes]]. The MC sometimes also acts as the [[protocol]] officer during an official [[state]] function. In hip hop musi ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_book liturgical books] prescribing the rules and regulations of liturgical celebrations are ''Cæremoniale Romanum
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• 195:0 After Pentecost
  ...carried it to the whole [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire Roman Empire]. ...ad a revered [[tradition]] of a great [[past]]. They could [[contemplate]] the [[inheritance]] of great accomplishments in [[philosophy]], [[art]], [[lite
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• 142:1 Teaching in the Temple
  ...les]] conducted many teaching [[groups]] outside the [[sacred]] precincts. The burden of their [[message]] was: *1. The [[kingdom of heaven]] is at hand.
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