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• Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
  ...s of ancient [[Greece]] and [[Rome]]. The dictionary covers key aspects of ancient Greek and Roman life and [[literature]], such as [[science]], social struct
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• Category:Architecture
  ...ic consciousness, even when [[scholars]] have discovered much about a past civilization through other means. Cities, regions and cultures continue to identify them
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• New Encyclopedia of Africa
  ....org/wiki/Africa African] [[culture]]s from the pharaohs and the ancient [[civilization]]s of the south through the colonial era to the emergence of 53 independent
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• Dictionary of World Mythology
  ...al element of [[civilization]] as a whole. Written by a leading scholar of ancient civilizations, ''A Dictionary of World Mythology'' presents the powerful go
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• Talk:Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government
  ...aid on the Midianites is a typical recital of the atrocious cruelty of the ancient tribal wars; this assault, with its slaughter of all the males and the late ...s in the past, it has been an indispensable scaffolding in the building of civilization, but it is rapidly becoming culturally bankrupt—incapable of producing di
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• Occident
  ...s]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_civilization Greco-Roman civilization] in Europe, the [[advent]] of [[Christianity]], and the [https://en.wikiped ...[[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
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• Encyclopedia of Anthropology
  ...given to: hominid evolution, primate [[behavior]], [[genetics]], [[ancient civilization]]s, cross-cultural studies, social theories, and the [[value]] of human [[l
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• Dilmun
  ...ipedia.org/wiki/Entrep%C3%B4t entrepôt] of the Mesopotamia-to-Indus Valley Civilization trade route. Dilmun is regarded as one of the oldest ancient civilizations in the Middle East. The Sumerians described Dilmun as a parad
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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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• 77:4 Nodite Centers of Civilization
  ...ys [[responsible]] for their failure to [[establish]] a great pre-Adamic [[civilization]]. From this time on [[Nodite]] [[culture]] declined for over one hundred a ...URANTIA Sangik] in [[nature]], although they continued to [[maintain]] a [[civilization]] superior to that of the [[surrounding]] [[barbarians]].
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• 68:4 Evolution of the Mores
  ...ilizing]] the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores], but advancing [[civilization]] has increasingly [[liberated]] [[mankind]] from the bondage of [[fear]] a ...al.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF teachers], ancient man was held a helpless [[victim]] of the [[ritual]] of the [https://en.wik
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• Mesopotamia
  ...'Mesopotamia'' comes from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek ancient Greek] root words μέσος (meso) "middle" and ποταμός (potamos) " *1: an ancient region of southwestern Asia in present-day Iraq, lying between the Tigris a
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• 79:8 Later Chinese Civilization
  ...with the red race there [[persisted]] only the hazy [[tradition]] of an [[ancient]] [[contest]] with the archer peoples. The [[Chinese]] early turned to [[ag ...isruption of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_world Graeco-Roman civilization].
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• 89:1 The Taboo
  ...boos]], all [[expressed]] in the same [[negative]] form as were the most [[ancient]] prohibitions. But these newer codes were truly emancipating in that they 89:1.6 [[Methods]] of eating soon became taboo, and so originated [[ancient]] and [[modern]] table [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette etiquette].
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• 81:1 The Cradle of Civilization
  ...And [[climate]] was the decisive [[factor]] in the [[establishment]] of [[civilization]] in that area. ...c changes], about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15,000_BC 15,000 B.C.], [[civilization]] had settled down to a world-wide [[stalemate]] except for the [[cultural]
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• 90:5 Priests and Rituals
  ...ds of years endless [[rituals]] have hampered [[society]] and [[cursed]] [[civilization]], have been an intolerable burden to every [[act]] of life, every racial u ...mes]]. The making of [[pilgrimages]] to [[sacred]] [[shrines]] is a very [[ancient]] [[ritual]]. The ritual next grew into elaborate ceremonies of [[purificat
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• Touch stone
  The ''touchstone'' was used in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greece]. Its role in the introduction of monetary [[economy]] was explored It was also used by Indus Valley Civilization about 3500 BC for testing the purity of soft metals.
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• Alphabet
  ...] from the Late Latin word Alphabetum, which in turn [[originated]] in the Ancient Greek Αλφάβητος Alphabetos, from alpha and beta, the first two [[l ...he world, these ancient [[tribes]] suddenly loom upon the [[horizon]] of [[civilization]] with a full-grown and superior [[culture]], [[embracing]] [[temples]], me
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• 68:1 Protective Socialization
  ...fatal to go abroad alone without some mark of [[group]] [[association]]. [[Civilization]] has become man's insurance against [[violent]] [[death]], while the premi ...at man's many blunders have thus far failed to stop or destroy [[human]] [[civilization]].
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• Great Pyramid of Gizeh
  ...ramid was built as a tomb for [[Fourth dynasty of Egypt|Fourth dynasty]] [[ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] King [[Khufu]] (Cheops in Greek) and constructed over a 20 ...'' notes "By themselves, of course, none of these modern labels define the ancient purposes of the architecture they describe." p. 8</ref> Queen's Chamber and
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