Search results for "Hellenistic Civilization" - New World Encyclopedia
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- succession of more than 30 Hellenic and Hellenistic kings, ... The Greco-Bactrians maintained a strong Hellenistic culture at the ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- The first sculptures in India date back to the Indus Valley civilization ... of Indian post-Gupta mannerism, with Hellenistic or even Greco-Roman, influences ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- Atlas, a second century Roman copy of a Hellenistic work (Naples)]] ... culture, arts and literature of Western civilization. Though the ancient Greek ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean ... the current ruler of the Minoan civilization. What the Minoans called ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- The first recorded use of trigonometry came from the Hellenistic mathematician Hipparchus Joseph Hunt, [http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Pa ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- The cult of Isis rose to prominence in the Hellenistic world, beginning ... he instituted, and Isis acquired in the Hellenistic age a "new rank as ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- non-Greek areas, a period known as the Hellenistic Age. Alexander himself ... effects, with the flourishing of Hellenistic civilization throughout the Middle ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- characteristics of Western civilization. His goal was to find reasons ... Chinese civilization had no religious prophecy nor a powerful priestly ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- alone, not as just a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was the first documented ... of Numbers: How Mathematics Has Shaped Civilization. New York: Fawcett Columbine ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- of the original Mycenaean Spartan civilization, as represented in Homer ... This civilization seems to have fallen into decline by the late Bronze ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- Taxila, an important center of trade and Hellenistic culture, increasing his ... role in his victory against western Hellenistic kings at the Battle of ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- in Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and Hellenistic mythology. See Powell, 211-241, for an overview. *Demeter placed Aethon, the god of famine, ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- of European and American thought and civilization. Delving into Ancient Rome, Hellenistic Greece and Biblical times, he found a close resemblance ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- largely lost due to the discontinuity of the civilization,Demisch, Heinz. 1977. “Die Sphinx.” Geschichte ihrer Darstellung von den Anfangen bis zur ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- was adopted from the Greeks during the Hellenistic period. ... Sanhedrin. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Oxford University Press ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- has a long history of settlement and civilization, including the Indus Valley ... As one of the cradles of human civilization, the Pakistani region ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- Regarded as the cradle of western civilization and the birthplace ... to appear around Greece was the Minoan civilization in Crete, which lasted ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- and weakened the entire fabric of Greek civilization. Greek warfare, originally ... War. This would lead to the spread of Hellenistic culture throughout the ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the southern Levant from the eleventh century B.C.E until Roman times. The region ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- one of the classic works in all of western civilization. ... mother Perictione. According to a late Hellenistic account by Diogenes Laertius ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
