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.

Ancient accounts of the Regal period mingle history and legend.

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 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.

Evidence from the archaeological and historical record of Ancient Rome and medieval Mesopotamia indicates that coins were collected and catalogued by scholars and state treasuries.

Ancient historians state that Caligula began falsely accusing, fining and even killing individuals for the purpose of seizing their estates.

Spanish and Ancient Greek, for example, have a perfect ( not the same as the perfective ), which refers to a state resulting from a previous action ( also described as a previous action with relevance to a particular time, or a previous action viewed from the perspective of a later time ).

In the Roman Republic there were two heads of state, styled Consul, both of whom alternated months of authority during their year in office, similarly there was an even number of supreme magistrates in the Italic republics of Ancient Age.

Ancient Greeks were among the first civilizations to use symbols consistently in order to identify a warrior, clan or a state.

Notable for the theories that humans are social animals, and that the polis ( Ancient Greek city state ) existed to bring about the good life appropriate to such animals.

In Ancient China, prefects were government officials appointed by local magistrates, who reported to higher authorities such as governors, who in turn were appointed by the head of state, usually the emperor of the dynasty.

Psychosis ( from the Ancient Greek ψυχή " psyche ", for mind / soul, and-ωσις "- osis ", for abnormal condition or derangement ) refers to an abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a " loss of contact with reality ".

Although primitive state-forms existed before the rise of the Ancient Greek empire, the Greeks were the first people known to have explicitly formulated a political philosophy of the state, and to have rationally analyzed political institutions.

The imperial cults in Ancient Egypt and elsewhere deified the ruling monarch, so that the state religion was dedicated to the worship of the ruler as a deity, or the incarnation of a deity.

* 457 BC: Athenian statesman Pericles ' greatest reform, allowing common people to serve in any state office, inaugurates Golden Age of Ancient Athens.

In Ancient Greek religion Hestia (, " hearth " or " fireside ") is the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state.

For a brief period, after the conquests of Alexander the Great, it became the most powerful state in the world, controlling a territory that included the former Persian empire, stretching as far as the Indus River ; at that time it inaugurated the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek civilization.

Ancient states such as Persia and Greek city-states would create client states by making the leaders of that state subservient.

Ancient Oaks is a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state.

Critics state that Armstrong taught salvation as being legalistic obedience to God's law, including such laws as Sabbath keeping, dietary laws, and other laws kept by Ancient Israelites but not typically kept by ' mainstream ' Christian denominations.

Ancient sources state that Rome initially borrowed hoplite tactics ( the use of the phalanx ) from the Etruscans ( used during the 6th or 5th century BC ) but later adopted the manipular system of the Samnites, probably as a result of Samnite success at this time.

Ancient sources such as the Zuo Zhuan and the eponymous Chunqiu record the various diplomatic activities, such as court visits paid by one ruler to another (, cháo ), meetings of officials or nobles of different states (, huì ), missions of friendly inquiries sent by the ruler of one state to another (, pìn ), emissaries sent from one state to another (, shǐ ), and hunting parties attended by representatives of different states (, shou ).

After the Minoan civilization was devastated by the Thera eruption, Crete developed an Ancient Greece-influenced organization of city states, then successively became part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Venetian Republic, the Ottoman Empire, and the modern state of Greece.

Ancient Chinese records and other sources state that Heilongjiang was inhabited by people such as the Buyeo, the Mohe, and the Khitan.

In 1882, under the Ancient Monuments Protection Act, Newgrange, alongside the nearby monuments of Knowth and Dowth, was taken under the control of the state ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as it was then known ), and they were placed under the responsibility of the Board of Public Works.

Prominent examples include the Ancient Assyrian Empire, the Greek city state of Sparta, the Roman Empire, the Aztec nation, the Kingdom of Prussia, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( which would later become part of the Soviet Union ), the Italian Colonial Empire during the reign of Benito Mussolini, Nazi Germany and American Imperialism.

" Ancient music and dance traditions from the temples and courts of China, India, and Indonesia are preserved in Asian communities throughout the state, and popular song genres are continually layered on to these classical music forms "