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  • be the foundational culture of Western civilization. Greek culture was a powerful ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...
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  • - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ...
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  • Paradoxically, he was also viewed as the promoter of civilization ... established. There was a desire to curb Hellenistic influences on public life ...
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  • was one of the major centers of Greek civilization, a military stronghold ... Minoan Crete developed a very complex civilization which interacted with ...
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  • Westmacott depicting The Progress of Civilization, consisting of fifteen ... Image:IndusValleySeals.JPG|Seals of the Indus Valley Civilization. ...
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  • ) (c. 214 - c. 298 C.E.) was a Hellenistic mathematician. He is sometimes ... mathematical notation and was the first Hellenistic mathematician who frankly ...
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  • The notion of "Seven Wonders" can be traced to a Hellenistic ... | Hellenistic Greece | A giant statue of the Greek god Helios roughly ...
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  • and educated and refined to a state of civilization; and as the rites are ... E.), became a major festival during the Hellenistic era, and later spread ...
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  • culture, arts and literature of Western civilization. Though the ancient Greek ... == Hellenistic Age == By 338 B.C.E. all of the Greek city-states except ...
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  • unlocking the mysteries of the great civilization of ancient Egypt. ... Ptolemy V who was the fifth ruler of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Dynasty. The ...
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  • Silver tetradrachm from Troy during the Hellenistic period, 188–160 B.C ... Press, The Trojan Origin of Roman Civilization. After attacking and ...
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  • of Ptolemy I's father, Lagus) was a Hellenistic Macedonian royal family ... what was effectively a bi-cultural civilization. This civilization did ...
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  • is interesting as the first truly "Hellenistic" state--in the sense ... which developed into a monarchy of the Hellenistic type." ...
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  • The precursor to the almanac was the Hellenistic astronomical and meteorological calendar, the parapegma, a stone in which the days of the month ...
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  • one of the classic works in all of western civilization. ... == Hellenistic period == With the death of Aristotle in B.C. 322, classical ...
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  • The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving ... slavery or exploitation of people. The civilization appears to have been stable ...
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  • called it Ancyra; and in the classical, Hellenistic, and Byzantine periods ... be traced back to the Bronze Age Hatti civilization, which was succeeded in ...
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  • Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... sailing vessel. They were the first civilization to create the bireme. ...
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  • This was the period when the Phoenician civilization began to develop, and ... Hellenistic rule came with the arrival of Alexander the Great in the ...
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  • India and Buddhist contact with Hellenistic culture in the Indo-Greek ... Gupta mannerism and Classical influence, Hellenistic or possibly even Greco-Roman. ...
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