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  • 41Ancient reenactment — tends to focus on portrayals of the Greco Roman world, and especially on modern recreations of Roman legions and ancient Greek hoplites.Roman reenactingMost groups that concentrate on Roman reenacting focus on one particular Roman legion; nearly… …

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  • 42Ancient Greek technology — developed at an unprecedented speed during the 5th century BC, continuing up to and including the girls period, and beyond. Inventions that are credited to the ancient Greeks such as the gear, screw, rotary mills, screw press, bronze casting… …

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  • 43Ancient Chinese coinage — Ancient Chinese coins Chinese coins were produced continuously for around 2,500 years by casting in moulds, rather than being struck with dies as with most western coins. Contents 1 …

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  • 44Ancient Europe — may refer to *Prehistoric Europe **Neolithic Europe **Bronze Age Europe **Iron Age Europe *Classical Antiquity **Ancient Greece **Ancient Rome **Hellenistic period **Roman Empire **Late Antiquityee also*Old Europe *Ancient history *History of… …

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  • 45Ancient Greek law — is a branch of comparative jurisprudence relating to the laws and legal institutions of Ancient Greece. Greek Iuris law has been partially compared with Roman law, and has been incidentally illustrated with the aid of the primitive institutions… …

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  • 46Halteres (ancient Greece) — This article concerns an ancient sports object. For halteres as used in insect anatomy, see Halteres. The term Hualteres comes from the Greek word for dumbbells (ἁλτῆρες). In ancient Greek sports, halteres were used as lifting weights, and also… …

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  • 47Emporia (ancient Greece) — An Emporia was a place which the traders of one nation had reserved to their business interests within the territory of another nation. Famous emporia include Sais where Solon went to acquire the knowledge of Egypt, Elim where Hatshepsut kept her …

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  • 48Same (ancient Greece) — Same (Greek: Σάμη) is an Ancient Greek name of an island in the Ionian Sea, near Ithaca and Cephalonia. In Homer s Iliad, book II, Same is part of Odysseus s kingdom. In Homer s Odyssey, one of the Suitors, Ctesippus, is described as a man from… …

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  • 49Education in Ancient Greece — Education played a significant role in ancient Greek life since the founding of the poleis till the Hellenistic and Roman period.With origins lying on the homeric and the aristocratic tradition, education was vastly democratized in the 5th… …

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  • 50ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …

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