Many of us may even be secretly relieved at having a plausible excuse to delegate ancient civic responsibilities to a new bureaucracy of experts.

Many ancient civilizations alloyed metals for purely aesthetic purposes.

Many ancient cultures, including the ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks, used specially selected mold and plant materials and extracts to treat infections.

Many city-states in ancient Greece limited debt slavery to a period of five years and debt slaves had protection of life and limb, which regular slaves did not enjoy.

Many changes that were subsequent with ancient historians, despite following in his footsteps, criticised Herodotus, starting with Thucydides.

Many believe that al-kīmīā is derived from χημία, which is in turn derived from the word Chemi or Kimi, which is the ancient name of Egypt in Egyptian.

Many thinkers point to the concept of citizenship beginning in the early city-states of ancient Greece, although others see it as primarily a modern phenomenon dating back only a few hundred years.

Many of the ancient Persian columns are standing, some being more than 30 metres tall.

Many ancient cultures used adorned daggers in ritual and ceremonial purposes, a trend which continues to the present time in the form of art knives.

Many of the insect endosymbionts have been shown to have ancient associations with their hosts, involving strictly vertical inheritance.

Many heraldic shields derive from ancient house marks.

Many ancient critics also rejected Theogony ( e. g. Pausanias 9. 31. 3 ) but that seems rather perverse since Hesiod mentions himself by name in that poem ( line 22 ).

Many of the kings of ancient Greece traced their lines to one or another of these, notably the kings of Sparta and Macedon.

Many ancient civilizations were influenced by the Silk Road, which connected China, India, the Middle East and Europe.

Many other ancient societies have references to this phenomenon, but it was not until the 19th and 20th centuries before the concept developed into scientific theory.

Many ancient cultures around the world have independently discovered and formulated inks for the purposes of writing and drawing.

Many sectors were left in ruins and ancient monuments became fields of grass used as pastures for animals, thus the Roman Forum became the campo vaccinio: the field of cows.

Many of these writers used Pausanias as their guide to the geography and sights of the region, but were also concerned to correlate modern Greek place-names with ancient evidence.

Many ancient murals have survived in Egyptian tombs ( around 3150 BC ), the Minoan palaces ( Middle period III of the Neopalatial period, 1700-1600 BC ) and in Pompeii ( around 100 BC-AD 79 ).

Many Buddhist philosophical works lost in Tibet and elsewhere are preserved in older and purer form in Mongolian ancient texts ( e. g. the Mongolian Kanjur ).

Many contemporary and technologically advanced movies often rely on ancient myths to construct narratives.

Many applications, practices, and devices associated or involved in metallurgy were established in ancient China, such as the innovation of the blast furnace, cast iron, hydraulic-powered trip hammers, and double acting piston bellows.

Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

Many academic historians hold the idea that the German armed forces adopted " blitzkrieg " as an offensive doctrine to be a myth.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

Many military historians say that the battle of Schwetz / Świecino was the turning point of the Thirteen Years ' War, leading to the final victory in 1466.

Many historians maintain that the main concern of Pope Urban II, when calling for the First Crusade, was the threat to Constantinople from the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor in response to the appeal of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

Many historians trace modern Ethiopian foreign policy to the reign of Emperor Tewodros II, whose primary concerns were the security of Ethiopia's traditional borders, obtaining technology from Europe ( or modernization ), and to a lesser degree Ethiopian rights to the monastery of Dar-es-Sultan in the city of Jerusalem.

Many environmental historians consider the split between John Muir and Gifford Pinchot.

Many writers and historians recently have stated Aldini was an inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein due to his many public experimentations of bio-electric Galvanism.

Many historians are employed at universities and other facilities for post-secondary education.

Many historians regard him as one of the greatest Secretaries of State in American history.

Many contemporaries and later historians, such as Ron Chernow, noted that Madison and President Jefferson ignored their " strict construction " view of the Constitution to take advantage of the purchase opportunity.

Many of the disaffected barons came from the north of England ; that faction was often labelled by contemporaries and historians as " the Northerners ".

Many other historians could be quoted in terms similar to Woolf.

Many historians, archaeologists and adventurers have reconstructed longships in an attempt to understand how they worked.

Many historians believe it was based on a Chinese card game called Mǎdiào ( 馬吊 ) ( also known as Ma Tiae, hanging horse ; or Yèzí, leaf ) in the early Ming dynasty.

Many reviews in academic journals were critical, with historians claiming that she had distorted and misinterpreted the contemporary records that she was using.

Many historians suggested that the Czech rule over Lesser Poland was only nominal and likely limited to the indirect control of Kraków and perhaps a few other important centers.

Many writers and historians falsely attribute to Chauvin the exploits of other Bonapartists.

Many historians agree that some Oromo clans ( Bale ) have lived in the southern tip of present-day Ethiopia for over a millennium.

Many historians have attributed this to the influence and backing of the Spanish King.

Many historians now prefer to use the term " Early Modern " for this period, a more neutral designation that highlights the period as a transitional one between the Middle Ages and the modern era.

Many historians have noted the coincidence that the last western emperor bore the names of both Romulus, the legendary founder and first king of Rome, and Augustus, its first emperor.

Many historians have debated the reasons why the French Revolution took such a radical turn during the Reign of Terror of 1793 – 94.