Few of the most creative societies of the ancient world, after all, were free.
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The foundations of knowledge of the ancient world which informs the understanding of the modern world are biblical in origin.
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The results are now on exhibition at New York's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
In the ancient world, the 'gods' were rarely regarded as supernatural beings with discrete personalities, living a totally separate metaphysical existence.
On it is the earliest truly extensive documented set of laws of the ancient world, written in Akkadian.
The mines in the south-west of the province were one of the ancient world's main sources of the metal.
Hillah is the modern location of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the hanging gardens of Babylon.
Just about any contemporary sport has corollaries in competitions in the ancient world, or a pedigree in folk games or aristocratic recreations.
Pat bred donkeys and had studied and written about their symbolic significance, their place in the ancient world, and their profoundly spiritual natures.
And Cleopatra controlled the greatest grain supply in the ancient world.
The nature of narcissism was explored in the ancient world too.
The pyramid is the biggest and most famous of the Giza monuments and is the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world still standing.
Through careful, and often conjectural reconstruction of Vitruvius's descriptions, Palladio established the standard for the way Renaissance architects saw and used the buildings of the ancient world.
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Leaders in the ancient world thought and made decisions differently.
It recommended using geometric lines of latitude and longitude to convey a three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional surface, and it included the co-ordinates of over 8, 000 locations in the ancient world.
His Benedictine monks, through great learning, and with great courage preserved the learning of the ancient world, mixed with piety, and used it to lay the foundation of what eventually became Europe.
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This pattern was repeated throughout the ancient world, for example, pitting Chinese against the peoples of the Steppes, hurling German and Hunnish barbarian races against the Romans, and in countless upheavals throughout Meso-America.
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For more than 30 years chalk in one hand, wineglass in the other he has conducted a Latin summer school in Rome, holding many classes sub arboribus 11 in the conversational style of the ancient world.
He says that Steve Forbes' 2009 book, Power, Ambition, Glory: The Stunning Parallels Between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today ... and the Lessons You Can Learn, damaged his reputation in its discussions of the criminal conviction.
The work of the Catholic theologians drew upon traditions stretching back to the ancient world that would have considered terrorists to be hostis humani generis, the enemy of all mankind, who merited virtually no protections under the laws of war.
Sikeliote craftsmen became the masters of the ancient world at carving microscopically detailed dies from which gold and silver coins were stamped in a great variety of intricate images not just of gods and humans, but of flying four-horse chariots and great eagles devouring their prey.
Many of the ancient hierarchical world empires (Egypt, Babylon, etc.) have fat chapters in history of mathematics texts.
He says the church inspired wonder because its leaders were able to form a community that cut across the rigid class and ethnic divisions that characterized the ancient Roman world.
China and Israel, two ancient nations reborn after World War II, lacked ties until 1992.
"Now here's a site, the sphinx and the pyramids, probably the most famous ancient site in the world no map, " Ludwig says.
Ancient cultures around the world found their own forms of gum.
The restaurant scene is booming, neighbourhoods are being transformed and at the same time, Istanbul offers world renowned ancient architecture and museums, food fit for a sultan and enough sights and activities for a lifetime of visits.
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