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From the ancient Greeks until the work of Carolus Linnaeus ( also known as Carl Linnaeus, or Carl von Linné ) and other 18th century naturalists, the main concept of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being, a conceptual arrangement of minerals, vegetables, more primitive forms of animals, and more complex life forms on a linear scale of increasing " perfection ", culminating in our species.
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From this action sprang the idea of somehow uniting Greek and Shakespearean drama into a new total form, capable of restoring to life the ancient moral and poetic responses.
From the Black Sea, trade could continue to Asia along the Silk Road, another ancient trade route.
From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.
Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.
From the viewpoint of the ancient Greeks, a person's public life was not separated from their private life, and Greeks did not distinguish between the two worlds according to the modern western conception.
From the ancient times until the 1800s, one goal was to reduce the expense of a classical education.
From this doctrine arose the Epicurean epitaph: Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo ( I was not ; I was ; I am not ; I do not care ) – which is inscribed on the gravestones of his followers and seen on many ancient gravestones of the Roman Empire.
From ancient times through the Middle Ages, bursts of mathematical creativity were often followed by centuries of stagnation.
From the scientific discovery which has been a silent evidence, it has pointed out that the South East Asian civilizations are a of much older civilization compared to the widely researched and well documented east Asians ' ancient civilisations Dong Son culture spread to Indonesia bringing with it techniques of wet-field rice cultivation, ritual buffalo sacrifice, bronze casting, megalithic practises, and ikat weaving methods.
From Mount Emei in Sichuan, a Daoist hermit, a nun known as a " numinous old woman " and " holy physician "— who Temple says was associated with the ' school of the ancient immortals ' and thus most likely specialized in ' internal alchemy '— introduced the technique of inoculation to the capital.
From Robertson, Madison learned mathematics, geography, and modern and ancient languages.
* Independent Religion – From the Encyclopædia Britannica Article on Jainism: "... Along with Hinduism and Buddhism, it is one of the three most ancient Indian religious traditions still in existence.
From various ancient writings, historians have gathered that a group of young women were left in Sappho's charge for their instruction or cultural edification.
From ancient texts to medieval maps, anything written down for study would have been done with manuscripts.
The 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia wrote, " From ancient times until the nineteenth century the port of Monaco was among the most important of the French Mediterranean coast, but now it has lost all commercial significance.
From the middle and late Eastern Han to the early Wei and Jin dynasties, the net growth of ancient Chinese science and technology experienced a peak ( second only to that of the Northern Song dynasty )... Han studies of the Confucian classics, which for a long time had hindered the socialization of science, were declining.
From the Arab conquest 637 CE until modern time the city of Mosul on the opposite bank of the river Tigris became the successor of ancient Nineveh.
From the earliest finds, opium has appeared to have ritual significance, and anthropologists have speculated that ancient priests may have used the drug as a proof of healing power.
From an ancient senatorial family, Gregory worked with the stern judgement and discipline typical of ancient Roman rule.
From ancient times, people around the world have recorded proverbs in visual form.
From ancient Greece to the late 19th century, it was a central part of Western education, filling the need to train public speakers and writers to move audiences to action with arguments.
From that time, scholars began to study the ancient Roman legal texts, and to teach others what they learned from their studies.
From their existing records, it is known that the ancient Egyptians recorded the names of only a few identifiable constellations and a list of thirty-six decans that were used as a star clock.
From the period of the Middle Kingdom onwards, Saluki-like animals appear on the ancient Egyptian tombs of 2134 BC.
From and Greeks
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.
The Growth of Political Thought in the West: From the Greeks to the End of the Middle Ages.
From around 304 BC the area formed part of the Seleucid Empire, and from around 250 BC it was the centre of a Greco-Bactrian kingdom, ruled by the descendants of Greeks who had settled there following the conquest of Alexander the Great.
*" Scythian Gold From Siberia Said to Predate the Greeks " A journalist's article on the Arzhan finds, quoting Hermitage experts
Pliny says that there is another kind of alum that the Greeks call schiston, and which " splits into filaments of a whitish colour ", From the name schiston, and the mode of formation, it appears that this species was the salt which forms spontaneously on certain salty minerals, as alum slate and bituminous shale, and which consists chiefly of sulfates of iron and aluminium.
From about 750 BC the Greeks began 250 years of expansion, settling colonies in all directions.
From 1438 on he interpreted for the Greeks at the councils of Ferrara and Florence.
From this word D ' Anville supposes the Greeks to have formed the name of Hyrcania.
From the Slavs, it was passed on to other peoples, such as the Hungarians ( Oláh ) and Greeks ( Vlachoi ) ( see the Etymology section of Vlachs ).
From October 494 to the conclusion of peace near the end of 506, the author gives an annalistic account, with careful specification of dates, of the main events in Mesopotamia, the theatre of conflict such as the siege and capture of Amid by the Persians ( 502 – 3 ), their unsuccessful siege of Edessa ( 503 ), and the abortive attempt of the Greeks to recover Amida ( 504 – 5 ).
From 600 – 250 BC, the Greeks played a major role in geometry.
From the 9th century it was known by the Turks as Pangalia, by the Romanians as Tomisovara, and by the Greeks as Panglicara, and it was one of the most important ports on the west coast of the Black Sea.
* From the Greeks to Darwin: an outline of the development of the evolution idea ( 1927 )
From the late 1600s Greeks began to fill some of the highest and most important offices of the Ottoman state.
From 1946 until 1982, approximately 211, 000 Greeks emigrated to the United States.
* From what we know from the old Balkan populations territories ( Greeks, Illyrians, Thracians, Dacians ), Albanian language is spoken in the same region where Illyrian was spoken in ancient times.
( From some ancient Greek paintings many people believe Ajax raped Cassandra, and the verb that Euripides used to describe Ajax's " taking " of Cassandra can also be translated as rape, but it does not directly say that in this story ) What follows shows how much the Trojan women have suffered as their grief is compounded when the Greeks dole out additional deaths and divide their shares of women.
From 1669 until the Greek War of Independence in 1821, Phanariotes formed the majority of the dragomans to the Ottoman government ( the Porte ) and to foreign embassies-due to the higher level of education of Greeks compared to the general Ottoman population.
From 1890 to 1914 migrations swelled, attracting especially unskilled workers from Eastern and Southern Europe, including Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Greeks, and Italians, and Jews from throughout eastern Europe, mostly from the Russian Empire.
From the late 1970s the Irish population has decreased significantly, being replaced by large numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Albanians, and Greeks.
From the 7th century BC onwards, the Getae came into economic and cultural contact with the Greeks, who were establishing colonies on the western side of Pontus Euxinus, nowadays the Black Sea.
From then onwards, and in the years following the Asia Minor Disaster, until immigration became restricted in the mid-1920s, a great number of Greeks emigrated to the United States, bringing their musical traditions with them.
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