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  • The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches ... All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...
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  • The Greek conquests of India took place in the years before the Common ... (today's Pakistan). They governed the region until 316 B.C.E. The ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the ... The theonym "Uranus" is the Latinized form of Ouranos ( ...
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  • Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Orthodox communities, including ethnic Greeks. The Patriarch controlled the ...
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  • long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...
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  • for heating, baking, or drying. Over the course of history, various ... By 3200 B.C.E., settlements across the Indus Valley Civilization had ...
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  • Krónos), also called Cronos or Kronos, was the leader of the first generation ... In later Roman times, Cronus was identified with the Roman deity Saturn. ...
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  • The word axiom comes from the Greek word or that which is considered self-evident. The word comes from αξιοειν ...
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  • The Sunga Empire (or Shunga Empire) is a Magadha dynasty that controlled ... The beginning of larger, centralized polities in India was largely ...
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  • Darius the Great (Darayawush I) (ca. 549 B.C.E. – 485/486 B.C.E ... and although he invaded Greece, he promoted the idea that the Greeks and Persians ...
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  • ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...
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  • speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana". ... Several references to the Yonas are found in ancient Indian documents ...
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  • 1633) was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between ... a singer. He subsequently began to work in the Medici court, first as a tenor ...
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  • an early Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers ... Titus Flavius Clemens was born sometime during the middle of the second ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Orion was both a great hunter, who met Ulysses ... Orion is mentioned in the oldest surviving Greek literature. His legend ...
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  • and apologist who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in ... and then cooperating with the Roman aggressors) Josephus nonetheless ...
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  • Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 – ... and lived a frugal, ascetic life. The citizens of Athens showed ...
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  • written by a Jewish author and included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox ... The setting of the book is about a century after the conquest of Judea ...
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  • Harpy is the singular form for the mythical creatures called Harpies ... The word Harpy in English comes from Old French harpie from the Latin ...
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  • ) is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune moment ... in a “new creation.” One has the choice of danger or opportunity ...
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