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| the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group. |
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| Cuneiform/Hyroglyphic/Pictogram |
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| Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that one must usually understand something of the associated spoken language to comprehend the text. |
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| Animism (from Latin anima "soul, life")[1][2] is a philosophical, religious or spiritual idea that souls or spirits exist not only in humans but also in other animals, plants, rocks, natural phenomena such as thunder, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment |
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| A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a supernatural story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, and the universe (cosmogony),[1] often as a deliberate act by one or more deities. |
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| he Mandate of Heaven (Chinese: 天命; pinyin: Tiānmìng) is a traditional Chinese philosophical concept. Tian would bless the authority of a just ruler, but would be displeased with a despotic ruler and would withdraw its mandate. |
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| the Sermon on the Mount is a compilation of Jesus' sayings, epitomizing his moral teaching. |
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| "Wheel of Law" is a symbol that has represented dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment, since the early period of Indian Buddhism |
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| Law code of Hammurabi/Roman Twelve Table/Chinese Legalism |
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| Code is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the code was enacted, by a process of codification. Hammurabi- Babylonia. r12- Roman. Chinese Legalism- China/ |
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| Both are epics and creation myth. Both attempt to solve the creation of the unknowm. |
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| The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit भगवद्गीता, Bhagavad Gītā, "Song of God") is one of the most important Hindu scriptures. It is revered as a sacred scripture of Hinduism,[1][2] and considered as one of the most important philosophical classics of the world |
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| The pater familias (plural: patres familias) was the head of a Roman family. The term is Latin for "father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate" |
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| A patrician was a member of an elite family in ancient Rome. Plebs was the general body of Roman citizens (as distinguished from slaves) in Ancient Rome |
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| "City"- Terms, notion of citizen ship, political community. |
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| Second great Chinese imperial dynasty. In contrast to the preceding Qin dynasty, the Han was a period of cultural flowering. One of the greatest of the early histories, the Shiji by Sima Qian, was composed, and the fu, a poetic form that became the norm for creative writing, began to flourish. |
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| A druid was a member of the priestly and learned class active in Gaul, and perhaps in Celtic culture more generally, during the final centuries BCE. They were suppressed by the Roman government from the 1st century CE and disappeared from the written record by the 2nd century |
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| The story of one of the world's oldest and most historically important trade routes and its influences on the culture of China, Central Asia and the West. |
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| Trans-Saharan trade is trade across the Sahara between Mediterranean countries and sub-Saharan Africa. While existing from prehistoric times, the peak of such trade extended from the eighth century until the late sixteenth century. |
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| Indian maritime history begins during the 3rd millennium BCE when inhabitants of the Indus Valley initiated maritime trading contact with Mesopotamia.[2] The Roman historian Strabo mentions an increase in Roman trade with India following the Roman annexation of Egypt. |
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| Literal description of human in Africa. Hundreds of thousand of years of "man." It originated in Ancient South Africa. |
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| Witchcraft, in various historical, anthropological, religious and mythological contexts, is the use of certain kinds of supernatural or magical powers. Witchcraft can refer to the use of such powers in order to inflict harm or damage upon members of a community or their property. |
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| Means of getting water in Roman empire. Roman aqueducts were built in all parts of the Roman Empire, from Germany to Africa, and especially in the city of Rome, where they totalled over 415 km. The aqueducts supplied water to large cities across the empire, and set a standard of engineering that was not surpassed for more than a thousand years. |
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| Romanization or latinization (in the historical and cultural means of both terms) indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of defeated populations by the Roman republic and the Roman empire. Ancient roman historiography and italian historiography until the fascism period was used to name the different processes involved with the unique term of civilisation of barbarians. |
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| Group in early Americas. Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco. |
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| Ancient World Concept of Religion in Egypt. Ma'at was also personified as a goddess regulating the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals and the deities, who set the order of the universe from chaos at the moment of creation. |
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| First person to believe there is a higher power. |
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