Most of what is known about Pre-Contact (" Ancient ") Chamorros comes from legends and myths, archaeological evidence, Jesuit missionary accounts, and observations from visiting scientists like Otto von Kotzebue and Louis de Freycinet.

Sommer ( 2008 ) classified historical accounts related to vitamin A and / or manifestations of deficiency as follows: " Ancient " accounts ; 18th-to 19th-century clinical descriptions ( and their purported etiologic associations ); early 20th-century laboratory animal experiments, and clinical and epidiomologic observations that identified the existence of this unique nutrient and manifestations of its deficiency.

Ancient accounts, which differ to some degree, describe the structure as being built with iron tie bars to which brass plates were fixed to form the skin.

In Ancient Egyptian creation accounts the original mound of land comes forth from the waters of the Nun.

Ancient accounts suggest Masinissa lived beyond the age of 90 and was apparently still personally leading the armies of his kingdom when he died.

Ancient accounts associate Mimnermus with a female aulos player, Nanno, and one makes him her lover ( see quote from Hermesianax in Comments by other poets below ).

The Nova documentary The Case of the Ancient Astronauts shows that all the claims made by Däniken about the Pyramid of Cheops were wrong in all accounts.

Ancient accounts state that Bucephalus died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, in what is now modern Pakistan, and is buried in Jalalpur Sharif outside of Jhelum, Pakistan.

Ancient writers also reported that Aspasia was a brothel keeper and a harlot, although these accounts are disputed by modern scholars, on the grounds that many of the writers were comic poets concerned with defaming Pericles.

* Ancient India as described by Arrian based on accounts by Megasthenes

The 8th-century Japanese Kojiki (" Records of Ancient Matters ") and Nihon Shoki (" Chronicles of Japan ", which quotes the Wei Zhi ) disregard Himiko, unless she was the subtext behind their accounts of Empress Jingū, Yamatohime-no-mikoto, or Yamato-totohi-momosohime-no-mikoto.

The Ancient Macedonians are missing from early Macedonian historical accounts because they had been living in the southern extremities of the region-Orestian highlands since before the Dark Ages.

The controversy over whether the Macedonians were originally Greek or not is caused mainly by contradictory ancient accounts, but also due to the peculiar features of a few Macedonians words, though most words are consistent with Greek ( see Ancient Macedonian language ).

* Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, including their private life, government, laws, arts, manufactures, religion, agriculture, and early history, derived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors, ( 6 volumes, 1837-41 ).

Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states ; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students.

Ancient sources agree that after Astyages was taken by Cyrus he was treated with clemency, though the accounts differ.

Fundamentalists typically treat as simple history, according to its plain sense, such passages as the Genesis account of creation, the deluge and Noah's ark, and the unnaturally long life-spans of the patriarchs given in genealogies of Genesis, as well as the strict historicity of the narrative accounts of Ancient Israel, the supernatural interventions of God in history, and Jesus ' miracles.

Ancient accounts of early Roman history are compromised by uneven use of sources, the author's bias toward either senatorial or popular interests, and sheer uncertainty.

Lysander and the young Agesilaus came to maintain an intimate relation ( see Pederasty in Ancient Greece ), as was common of the period.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

However, breathy-voiced and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is an audible period of breathiness following the stop, and in the history of various languages ( e. g. Ancient Greek, Mandarin Chinese ), breathy-voiced stops have subsequently developed into voiceless aspirated stops.

Climate ( from Ancient Greek klima, meaning inclination ) is commonly defined as the weather averaged over a long period.

These wonders are important achievements of society, science, culture and defense, ranging from the Pyramids and the Great Wall in the Ancient age, to Copernicus ' Observatory and Magellan's Expedition in the middle period, up to the Apollo program, the United Nations, and the Manhattan Project in the modern era.

Ian Bottomley in his book " Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan " shows a picture of a kusari armour and mentions kusari katabira ( chain jackets ) with detachable arms being worn by samurai police officials during the Edo period.

Ancient Sri Lankan texts such as the Pujavaliya, Sadharmaratnavaliya and Yogaratnakaraya and inscriptional evidence show that the above hierarchy prevailed throughout the feudal period.

* A History of Freethought: Ancient and modern, to the period of the French revolution by John Mackinnon Robertson ( 1915 )

He was a key figure in the Axial Age, the period from 800 BC to 200 BC, during which similarly revolutionary thinking appeared in China, India, Iran, the Near East, and Ancient Greece.

The period known as classical antiquity began with the rise of the city-states of Ancient Greece out of the Greek Dark Ages.

Ancient Greece in the eighth through fourth centuries BC, between the Greek Dark Ages and the Hellenistic period, is referred to as Hellenic Greece.

Ancient temples were regularly used for storing treasures, and were open to private individuals under exceptional circumstances ; furthermore, many subsequent philosophers in this period refer to the work.

The publication Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot ( Ancient Poems of the Finns ) published 33 volumes containing 85, 000 items of poetry over a period of 40 years.

Ancient records indicate rearing of livestock began on a small scale during the Three Kingdoms period.

In 1966, Virginia Radley considered Wordsworth and his sister as an important influence to Coleridge writing a great poem: " Almost daily social intercourse with this remarkable brother and sister seemed to provide the catalyst to greatness, for it is during this period that Coleridge conceived his greatest poems, ' Christabel ,' ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,' and ' Kubla Khan ,' poems so distinctive and so different from his others that many generations of readers know Coleridge solely through them.

The history of the Ancient Near East begins in the Lower Paleolithic period, and ends with either the arrival of the Achaemenid Empire in the late 6th century BC, or with the Arab Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and the establishment of the Caliphate in the late 7th century AD, from which point the region came to be known as Iraq.

Several works among the best known during this long period could be cited as an example, from Strabo ( Geography ), Eratosthenes ( Geography ) or Dionisio Periegetes ( Periegesis Oiceumene ) in the Ancient Age to the Alexander von Humboldt ( Cosmos ) in the century XIX, in which geography is regarded as a physical and natural science, of course, through the work Summa de Geografía of Martín Fernández de Enciso from the early sixteenth century, which is indicated for the first time the New World.

He was comparing his own period to the Ancient or Classical world, seeing his time as a time of rebirth after a dark intermediate period, the Middle Ages.

Its name derives from the Ancient Greek words and, meaning visible life, since it was once believed that life began in the Cambrian, the first period of this eon.

Ancient Greek was widely known to scholars, but the details of its use in the Hellenistic period as a government language in Ptolemaic Egypt were not familiar: large scale discoveries of Greek papyri were a long way in the future.

The Western tradition of sculpture began in Ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period.

This tradition continued from the first Mesopotamian cultures, through the various ancient Egyptian dynasties, to the period of the Ancient Greek city states.

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At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71, 000 objects of all kinds including some 40, 000 printed books, 7, 000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas.

From the Ancient Greeks and Romans to Napoleon's France and Elizabethan England, much of history is filled with stories of entertainment based on games of chance.

In Ancient Greece, the practice of keeping a slave concubine ( Greek " pallakis ") was little recorded but appears throughout Athenian history.

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Ancient Greek philosophers such as Hippocrates and Aristotle laid the foundations of ecology in their studies on natural history.

Ancient Greek philosophers such as Hippocrates and Aristotle were among the first to record observations on natural history.

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The Cambridge history of Japan: Ancient Japan, Vol.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics record the cultivation of purple grapes, and history attests to the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans growing purple grapes for both eating and wine production.

Aqueducts were built by the Greeks and Ancient Romans, while the history of China shows they built irrigation and flood control works.

The history of Libya comprises six distinct periods: Ancient Libya, the Roman era, the Islamic era, Ottoman rule, Italian rule, and the Modern era.

This makes the battle one of the most catastrophic defeats in the history of Ancient Rome, and one of the bloodiest battles in all of human history ( in terms of the number of lives lost within a single day ).

( The word history — from the Ancient Greek ιστορία, or istoria, meaning " a learning or knowing by inquiry "— is etymologically unrelated to the possessive pronoun his.

En-hedu-ana, a priestess in Ancient Iraq who dedicated herself to the Sumerian goddess Inanna, has the distinction of signing the oldest-surviving signed poetry in history.

This event has been an Olympic medal event since the first modern Olympics in 1896 ( a medal event for women since 1948 ) and has a history in the Ancient Olympic Games.

The history of the music of the Western cultures can be traced back to Ancient Greece times.

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