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• Bonding
  In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_century_bc 4th century BC], the Greek philosopher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] argued
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• Fishing
  ...fishery as early as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_BC 1st century BC]. Their seaport [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuticorin Tuticorin] was kno
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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 ...ans. A second decemvirate is said to have added two further tablets in 449 BC. The new Law of the XII Tables was approved by the people's assembly<ref na
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• Marathon
  ...in which he had just fought), which took place in August or September, 490 BC. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...st flowering is generally considered to have been in about the 6th century BC. Antony Flew & Stephen Priest, ''A Dictionary of Philosophy''. Pan Macmilla
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• Anthropomorphism
  ...philosopher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophanes Xenophanes] (570–480 BC) said that "the greatest god" resembles man "neither in form nor in [[mind]
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• Abdication
  ...org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla] the Dictator in 79 BC, Emperor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian Diocletian] in AD 305, a
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• Assassination
  ...abite King, Eglon by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud Ehud] around 1337 BC, described by The [[Book of Judges]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip
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• Pseudepigrapha
  ...lical studies, the Pseudepigrapha are Jewish religious works written c 200 BC to 200 AD, not all of which are [[literally]] pseudepigraphical.[3] They ar ...rs to numerous works of Jewish religious literature written from about 200 BC to 200 AD.[3] Not all of these works are actually pseudepigraphical.[3] Suc
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• Thunder
  ...r [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle] in the third century BC, and an early speculation was that it was caused by the collision of [https
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• Cain and Abel
  ...ain, on the other hand, is thought to be cognate to the mid-1st millennium BC South Arabian word qyn, meaning "metal smith". This [[theory]] would make t
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• History
  ...ion of when history begins. Some believe history began in the 34th century BC, with [[cuneiform]] [[writing]]. Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, on ...hing. However, it is his contemporary [[Thucydides]] (ca. 460 BC – ca. 400 BC) who is credited with having begun the scientific approach to history in hi
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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 ...from the most intense period of activity at the site in the [[6th century BC]]. [https://www.ancient-greece.org/archaeology/delphi-archaeology.html Delp
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• Censor
  ...d of five years), but as early as ten years after its [[institution]] (433 BC) their office was limited to eighteen months by a [[law]] of the [https://e
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• Hypocrisy
  ...an appropriate role for a [[public]] figure. In Athens in the 4th century BC, for example, the great orator [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes D
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• Dialogue
  ...literary historians commonly suppose that Plato (c. [[427 BC]] - c. [[347 BC]]) introduced the systematic use of dialogue as an independent literary for ...-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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• Data
  ...tatement accepted at face value; one of the works of [[Euclid]], circa 300 BC, was the ''Dedomena'' (in Latin, ''Data''). In discussions of problems in [
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• Crossing the Rubicon
  ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Ancient Rome] when, on January 10, 49 BC, he led his army across the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon Rubicon
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• Murder
  .../Code_of_Ur-Nammu Code of Ur-Nammu] written sometime between 2100 and 2050 BC. The code states, "If a man commits a murder, that man must be killed." The
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• Narcissism
  ...lier version ascribed to the poet Parthenius of Nicaea, composed around 50 BC, was recently rediscovered among the Oxyrhynchus papyri at Oxford.[2] Unlik
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