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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 ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- Paradoxically, he was also viewed as the promoter of civilization ... established. There was a desire to curb Hellenistic influences on public life ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- was one of the major centers of Greek civilization, a military stronghold ... Minoan Crete developed a very complex civilization which interacted with ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- Westmacott depicting The Progress of Civilization, consisting of fifteen ... Image:IndusValleySeals.JPG|Seals of the Indus Valley Civilization. ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- ) (c. 214 - c. 298 C.E.) was a Hellenistic mathematician. He is sometimes ... mathematical notation and was the first Hellenistic mathematician who frankly ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- The notion of "Seven Wonders" can be traced to a Hellenistic ... | Hellenistic Greece | A giant statue of the Greek god Helios roughly ...19 KB (2,688 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- unlocking the mysteries of the great civilization of ancient Egypt. ... Ptolemy V who was the fifth ruler of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Dynasty. The ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- Silver tetradrachm from Troy during the Hellenistic period, 188–160 B.C ... Press, The Trojan Origin of Roman Civilization. After attacking and ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- of Ptolemy I's father, Lagus) was a Hellenistic Macedonian royal family ... what was effectively a bi-cultural civilization. This civilization did ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 23:33, 2 December 2022
- is interesting as the first truly "Hellenistic" state--in the sense ... which developed into a monarchy of the Hellenistic type." ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- The precursor to the almanac was the Hellenistic astronomical and meteorological calendar, the parapegma, a stone in which the days of the month ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- one of the classic works in all of western civilization. ... == Hellenistic period == With the death of Aristotle in B.C. 322, classical ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving ... slavery or exploitation of people. The civilization appears to have been stable ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- called it Ancyra; and in the classical, Hellenistic, and Byzantine periods ... be traced back to the Bronze Age Hatti civilization, which was succeeded in ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... sailing vessel. They were the first civilization to create the bireme. ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- This was the period when the Phoenician civilization began to develop, and ... Hellenistic rule came with the arrival of Alexander the Great in the ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- India and Buddhist contact with Hellenistic culture in the Indo-Greek ... Gupta mannerism and Classical influence, Hellenistic or possibly even Greco-Roman. ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- Hebrews does not fit the form of a traditional Hellenistic epistle, lacking a proper prescript. Modern scholars generally believe this book was originally ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- culture, arts and literature of Western civilization. Indeed, Greek mythological ... in writings of scholars and poets of the Hellenistic Age and the Roman Empire ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- In Hellenistic times, Oxyrhynchus was a prosperous regional capital ... E.), whose comedies were very popular in Hellenistic times and whose works ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 06:03, 18 November 2022
- **Hellenistic astrology **Jyotish or Vedic astrology **Persian-Arabic ... Mediterranean region and specifically Hellenistic Egypt sometime around ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- In Europe, the Hellenistic period saw a more picturesque carving style ... * Glyphs and artwork of the Maya civilization, low relief ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- ancient Eastern traditions blend with Hellenistic architecture. ... A period follows in which the dominant civilization combines Greek ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- cosmetics, and other necessities of civilization that had been kept secret ... Clement of Alexandria, influenced by Hellenistic cosmology, attributed ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- house the dead, reveals much about the civilization of ancient Egypt. Scientists ... 2,000 years old. It was popularized in Hellenistic times when the Great Pyramid ...33 KB (5,140 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- * The Hellenistic ruin of Qasr al Abd, in the near-by valley of Wadi Al Seer * Petra, two hours from Aqaba, is one of the most breathtaking places ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- to have laid the foundations of western civilization as revived and re-interpreted ... Greeks migrated to the newly-conquered Hellenistic empire in the east. ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- *Buckle, Henry Thomas. History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2. Adamant Media Corporation, 2006. *Charron, Pierre. The "Wisdom" of ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- informed the public of the laws of the civilization, while in Asia, stelae ... Ptolemy V who was the fifth ruler of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Dynasty. The ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- although the fact that the Olmec civilization had come to an end by ... alone, not just as a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was perhaps the first ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- be the foundational culture of Western civilization. Greek culture was a powerful ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Arab, and Ottoman ... have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Arab, and Ottoman ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- 250 px|Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan.]] ... Antioch, and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra (now ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- role in the founding of Egyptian civilization. Bordering lands were ... the Nile River for irrigation, Egyptian civilization would probably have been ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- hold upon the sites of the oldest civilization, Argos, Mycenae, and Sparta… ... in her iconographic representations. In Hellenistic imagery, Hera's wagon ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- historical term broadly refers to the civilization of the Nile Valley between ... Egyptian civilization had a bias towards unity, rather than towards ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- writings gleaned from the work of the Hellenistic Period Egyptian priest ... ancient culture. This progenitor civilization is supposed to have been ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 20:54, 26 September 2023
- 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
