Search results for "Babylonian" - New World Encyclopedia
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- * That most mitzvot will no longer be in force (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Niddah 61b and Tractate Shabbat 151b). There is no authoritative answer ...49 KB (8,351 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- temple of E-Sagila, and did much to revive Babylonian culture as well as to extend Hellenistic influence, a process continued by his successors. After ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- recorded history. Biblical, Egyptian, and Babylonian sources record the history of abuse and dependence on alcohol. In some ancient cultures alcohol was ...57 KB (7,925 words) - 23:36, 28 December 2023
- of Jews, displaced from the Middle East after the Babylonian captivity, migrated to the region and settled there after 600 B.C.E., though the majority ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- from ancient Egyptian medicine, Babylonian Medicine, Ayurvedic medicine (in the Indian subcontinent), classical Chinese medicine (predecessor ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- Under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and (briefly) Sassanian rule, Jewish presence in the region dwindled because of ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- Nutrition is the combination of elements consumed by a person that nourishes the body, enabling it to sustain in an efficient manner all of its ...56 KB (8,181 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- B.C.E., and who worshipped the god Amurru. Early Babylonian inscriptions reveal that all western lands, including Syria and Canaan, were known as "the ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- with the neo-Assyrian and neo-Babylonian empires. Cyrus the Great conquered Phoenicia in 539 B.C.E. Phoenicia was divided into four vassal kingdoms ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- Avignon Papacy of 1305–1378, also called the Babylonian Captivity, and the so-called Western Schism that lasted from 1378–1418. The practice of granting ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- Babylon (1792-1750 B.C.E.) re-united the region. Babylonian rule covered most of the Tigris-Euphrates river valley from Sumer and the Persian Gulf, and ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية , al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Saʻūdiyya) is the largest country ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- related to "qlipoth" are found in some Babylonian incantations, a fact used as evidence to argue the antiquity of kabbalistic material. ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- The "Roman Empire" (Imperium Romanum) is used to denote that part of the world under Roman rule from approximately 44 B.C.E. until ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- The concept of the constellation was known to exist during the Babylonian period. Ancient sky watchers imagined that prominent arrangements of ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- came the Avignon residence—the so-called Babylonian captivity of the papacy (1309–1378), a time of good church administration, but of excessive ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- Under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and (briefly) Sassanid rule, Jewish presence in the region dwindled because of ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- used as standard values as early as in cuneiform Babylonian texts.Svenshon, Helge Olaf: Heron of Alexandria and the Dome of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
