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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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• 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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• 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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• 92:3 The Nature of Evolutionary Religion
  ...ion]] of the [[morals]] of the men who first conceived such [[deities]]. [[Ancient]] religions and [[mythology]] faithfully portray the [[beliefs]] and [[trad ...l]] [[revelation]]. And it is not strange that [[progress]] was slow; in [[ancient]] days, to be [[progressive]] or [[inventive]] meant to be killed as a [htt
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• 79:2 The Andite Conquest of India
  ...them the most [[heterogeneous]] race mixture ever to exist on [[Urantia]]. Ancient India acted as a catch basin for the migrating races. The base of the penin ...very much toward the enhancement of what might have been an even greater [[civilization]]. As it [[developed]], the red man was destroying himself in the [[America
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