In four opening chapters reminiscent of Macaulay's famous third chapter, Trevelyan surveys the state of England at the opening of the eighteenth century.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

A third use of the term pertains specifically to the indigenous peoples of the Americas, for instance, " In the 16th century, many Americans died from imported diseases during the European conquest ".

Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

They are said to go back at least to the Greek poet Lycophron, in the third century BCE ; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century.

He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the " Alexandrian Canon " compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.

The earliest known Christian image of an angel, in the Cubicolo dell ' Annunziazione in the Catacomb of Priscilla, which is dated to the middle of the third century, is without wings.

Hine, a true accusative masculine third person singular pronoun, is attested in some northern English dialects as late as the 19th century.

In the third century, this " concern for propriety " begins to be displaced by the concept of ' power ' to do so which means that in the absence of such a man it is " literally impossible " for a Eucharist to be celebrated.

Lucas van Leyden was the only Northern European engraver to successfully continue to produce large engravings in the first third of the century.

In the Restoration and eighteenth century, poetry written in couplets is sometimes varied by the introduction of a triplet in which the third line is an alexandrine, as in this sample from Dryden, which introduces a 6-5-6 triplet after two pentameter couplets:

A Jewish community is believed to have been established in Aegina " at the end of the second and during the third century AD " by Jews fleeing the Barbarian Invasions of the time in Greece.

This doctrine is a 17th century innovation, although it is now applied retrospectively for centuries ; the seventh Baron De La Warr had three surviving sons ; the first died without children, the second left two daughters, the third left a son.

The first known mention of the word was in the third century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis ( sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima ) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle:

A third wave was the revived form (" Neo-Adoptionism ") of Peter Abelard in the 12th century.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, that lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that the Romans called Batavia and that is currently the Netherlands, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

This view, however, is contradicted by the archeological evidence, which shows continuous habitation from at least the third century BC onward.

Critics of Daniel, at least since the third century works of Porphyry view the Book of Daniel as a pseudepigraph dated around 165 BCE that concerns itself primarily with the Maccabean era and the reign of the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes.

* He also scored a century and a double century in the third Test in that same Sri Lanka tour, a feat repeated only five other times in Test cricket history.

Scroll of Esther ( Megillah ) Esther is usually dated to the third or fourth century BCE.

It was the third largest political party throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

It is similar to a third century AD work by Heron of Alexandria.

More commonly remembered in history by his childhood nickname Caligula, he was the third Roman Emperor ruling from 37 to 41 AD.

The less fictional part of Jordanes ' work begins when the Goths encounter Roman military forces in the third century AD.

An amphitheatre built in the third century AD is still visible, but the thermae were demolished during the crisis of the third century to build the city's walls, which remain some of the most complete circuit of Gallo-Roman city walling that survives.

James F. Strange, an American archaeologist, notes: “ Nazareth is not mentioned in ancient Jewish sources earlier than the third century AD.

A concept of pre-existence was advanced by Origen, a Church Father who lived in the second and third century AD.

Patripassionism began in the third century AD.

It is likely that Saint George was born to a Christian noble family in Lod, Syria Palaestina during the late third century between about 275 AD and 285 AD, and he died in Nicomedia.

After 250 AD a third group, called the Barrancoid people settled in southern Trinidad and Tobago after migrating up the Orinoco River toward the sea.

A third version of the setting, 2320 AD was released as a supplement to the Traveller T20 ruleset.

The Physiologus is a didactic text written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author, in Alexandria ; its composition has been traditionally dated to the 2nd century AD by readers who saw parallels with writings of Clement of Alexandria, who is asserted to have known the text, though Alan Scott has made a case for a date at the end of the third or in the 4th century.

300 BC-300 AD " made contact with some parts with the outside world very difficult before the introduction of the camel into these areas, from the third century of the Christian era on.

Due to the absence of historical data, the timespan between the fourth century BC and the third century AD is known as the " Yerevan Dark Ages.

During the period of Othman, the third caliph, a party of Arabs from Egypt, disgruntled at his political decisions, attacked Medina in 656 AD / 35 AH and murdered him in his own home.

From the early third century AD onwards, this was the Fourth Cohort of Gauls.

There is a recipe for cooking asparagus in the oldest surviving book of recipes, Apicius ’ s third century AD De re coquinaria, Book III.

It also states that he wrote two letters ( though the second letter, 2 Clement, is no longer ascribed to him ) and that he died in Greece in the third year of Emperor Trajan's reign, or 101 AD.

Knot patterns first appeared in the third and fourth centuries AD and can be seen in Roman floor mosaics of that time.

**** Crisis of the third century ( 235 – 284 AD )