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  • 31Ancient history — Ancient redirects here. For other uses, see Ancient (disambiguation). The times before writing belong either to protohistory or to prehistory. Ancient history is the study of the written past [Crawford, O. G. S. (1927). Antiquity. [Gloucester,… …

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  • 32Ancient warfare — is war as conducted from the beginnings of recorded history to the end of the ancient period. In Europe and the Near East, the end of antiquity is often equated with the fall of Rome in 476. In China, it can also be seen as ending in the 5th… …

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  • 33Ancient Greek literature — refers to literature written in the Greek language until the 4th century AD. Classical and Pre Classical Antiquity This period of Greek literature stretches from Homer until the 4th century BC and the rise of Alexander the Great. Alfred North… …

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  • 34ANCIENT GREEK ARCHITECTURE —    Ancient Greek architecture is widely revered for its formal elements that have come to be called classical. These include a canon of proportion based on the human body, symmetry and harmony in terms of the relationship between all parts and… …

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  • 35Ancient Greek eros — Ancient Greeks used the word eros (Greek: polytonic|ἔρως) to refer to different aspects of love. This diverse range of meanings is expressed by the plurality of Greek words for Love , reflecting the versatility and complexity of eros. The term… …

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  • 36Ancient Greek clubs — were associations of ancient Greeks who were united by a common interest or goal.TypesThe earliest reference of clubs in ancient Greece appears in the law of Solon and is quoted incidentally in the Digest of Justinian I (47.22). This guaranteed… …

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  • 37Ancient Egypt — was an ancient civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. The civilization began around 3150 BC [Only after 664 BC are dates secure. See Egyptian… …

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  • 38Ancient Paleros — was an city of ancient Greece, situated in the northwest part of what is now the region ( periphery ) of Epirus. The city, ruinous for centuries, is thought to have existed during the Mycenean period, since parts of the city walls appear to date… …

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  • 39Architecture of ancient Greece — Architecture was extinct in Greece from the end of the Mycenaean period (about 1200 BC) to the 7th century BC, when urpeppeeban life and prosperity recovered to a point where public building could be undertaken. But since many Greek buildings in… …

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  • 40Greece (disambiguation) — Greece may refer to:* Greece, a country in southeast Europe, also known as Hellas ** Ancient Greece ** First Hellenic Republic, an unrecognized state 1822 – 1832 ** Greece (European Parliament constituency) ** Kingdom of Greece, a monarchy during …

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