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...red the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus traveled extensively around the ancient world, conducting interviews and collecting stories for his book. The rise of the Persian Empire is chronicled, and the causes for the...

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...red the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus traveled extensively around the ancient world, conducting interviews and collecting stories for his book. The rise of the Persian Empire is chronicled, and the causes for the...

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...red the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus traveled extensively around the ancient world, conducting interviews and collecting stories for his book. The rise of the Persian Empire is chronicled, and the causes for the...

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...ocean. It is first mentioned in the dialogs Timaeus and Critias written by the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was sup... ...er Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that A... ...re written by St. Paul. The Bible contains words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek. The Bible is the bestseller of all times. More than 5... ... http://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/ http://www.walkthewall.com/ Greek Philosophers There were so many ancient Greek thinkers t... ...y bit of modern knowledge, fact, pseudo-science and counterfact are represented. Greek mathematician Pythagoras (582-500 BC) postulated that eart... ...g.htm R Revolution Around 2800-2500 BC, Lagash and Umma were two Sumerian city-states located 25 kilometers apart in today's territory of ...

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... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...and gain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered... ...erson and summon them for service when needed. After he conquered all the city-states in Mesopotamia, the king initiated a series of reforms to pave... ... laws to his scribes that provided uniform justice for all the Babylonian city-states and covered many aspects of daily life. Records of landhold... ...today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...re missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems... ... from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phonetic system known to m... ...port the gist of Marco Polo‘s fourteenth-century tales of wealthy Chinese city-states with populations in the millions that far outshone even leading...

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... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...and gain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered o... ...erson and summon them for service when needed. After he conquered all the city-states in Mesopotamia, the king initiated a series of reforms to pave... ...laws to his scribes that provided uniform justice for all the Babylonian city-states and covered many aspects of daily life. Records of landholdin... ...n today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems... ... from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phonetic system known to m... ...port the gist of Marco Polo‘s fourteenth-century tales of wealthy Chinese city-states with populations in the millions that far outshone even leading...

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...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ...t: is also in a state of weightlessness. Apollo is the Sun God of the Ancient Greeks. The Apollo rocket is the son of the Sun God. Once the sperm ... ...r since it was invented. It goes back to the practice of alchemy, and to the Greeks, all the way back to Egypt: 7,000 years ago. When Egyptian alc... ... schizophrenia, a state of mental insanity that had become normal for wealthy Greeks in Greece at that time. He was trying to rationalize and uphold... ...omplete contradiction in terms. He wrote it because he saw how all the Greek city-states had destroyed themselves under the obsolete, dysfunctional ...

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...nother 400 years. He couldn‘t have written it down because he died before Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in another lan... ... While it may have been written in another language, it wasn‘t written in Greek for another 400 years. So we might question whether everything in th... ...lace. Was it more of a conglomeration of 300 years of warfare between the Greeks of the west and those who lived in what we now call Turkey? Did Achi... ... there is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun moves ar... ... ideas of Mithraism were infused into the developing early Christian sect. Greek thought was also influential in the development of Christianity thro...