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 Romans used a fraction system based on 12, including the uncia which became both the English words ounce and inch.

Martin Luther, when urging the secular authorities to crush the Peasant Rebellion of 1525 in Germany in his Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants, based his argument on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 13: 1-7.

" Alexandre adds that " based on other excavations that I conducted in other villages in the region, this pit was probably hewn as part of the preparations by the Jews to protect themselves during the Great Revolt against the Romans in 67 AD ".

* The 2007 film The Last Legion, and the novel on which it is based, includes a heavily fictionalized account of the reign and subsequent life of Romulus Augustus ; escaping captivity with the aid of a small band of loyal Romans, he escapes to Britain, where he takes a place in what will become Arthurian legend as Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, and a previous wielder of Excalibur ( Here the sword of Julius Caesar ).

* After being stopped twice by the Romans in his attempts to invade Illyria by sea, and constrained by the Roman commander Marcus Valerius Laevinus ' fleet in the Adriatic, Philip V of Macedon keeps his activities in Illyria land based.

* The Romans send envoys to Massilia ( modern Marseille, France ) to negotiate with the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca who is based there.

* The Romans, determined to win control of Sicily from Carthage, build a fleet based on the model of a captured Carthaginian quinquereme.

The comedy, based on Greek New Comedy, came to be called comoedia palliata by the Romans.

Initially the Romans deployed four legions in Syria, one of which, the Legio VI Ferrata, was likely based in Laodicea.

The common consensus has been to follow Kurth, based on the historical truism that Romans hated kingship from the days of the expulsion of Tarquin the Proud ; for example, Syagrius ' article in the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire omits this title, preferring to refer to him as a " Roman ruler ( in North Gaul )".

Cromwell based this decision on St. Paul's epistle to the Romans 10: 15.

After the author's death, the work was finished ( Romans through Revelation ) by thirteen other nonconformist ministers, partly based upon notes taken by Henry's hearers, and edited by George Burder and John Hughes in 1811.

There is evidence that the Romans were based in Mumbles in a villa on the site of the present All Saints Church in Oystermouth.

In the Pauline view, Jesus, obedient to the point of death ( Philippians 2: 8 ) died " at the right time " ( Romans 4: 25 ) based on the plan of God.

:* Existence of Jesus: That in Paul's view Jesus existed and was a Jew is based on Galatians 4: 4 which states that he was " born of a woman " and Romans 1: 3 that he was " born under the law ".

The Ancient Romans gave Latin names to every geographical entity in their vast empire, and many outside throughout the then known world ; while many of these names were based on pre-existing ' autochthonous ' names, sometimes translating, more often just adapting to their tongue, especially the ending, other names were the result of a more invasive decision, especially in case of ( re ) founding for a colony of veterans.

The Gnomon demonstrates the social controls that the Romans had in place through monetary means based on status and property.

This understanding of baptism seems to be based on the teachings of Paul, according to whom, those who " were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death " ( Romans 6: 3 ).

Palladio's work was strongly based on the symmetry, perspective and values of the formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.

Unlike the Greeks, the Romans did not see their common identity as being based on language and inherited ethnicity.

Palladio's work was strongly based on the symmetry, perspective and values of the formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.

One advantage of this approach is that it allows one to see all that the Bible says regarding some subject ( e. g. the attributes of God ), and one danger is a tendency to assign technical definitions to terms based on a few passages and then read that meaning everywhere the term is used in the Bible ( e. g. " justification " as Paul uses it in his letter to the Romans ) is allegedly different from how James uses it in his letter (, and ).

Gattie who asserted, based on unsourced legends, that the sands were once the fertile low-lying island of Lomea, which he equated with an island said to be known to the Romans as Infera Insula (" Low Island ").

They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.

Although the Carthaginians conquered much of the land around Alicante, the Romans would eventually rule Hispania Tarraconensis for over 700 years.

However neither the Romans nor the Goths put up much resistance to the Arab conquest of Medina Laqant in the 8th century.

In fact, modern historians use AUC much more frequently than the Romans themselves did.

While scholars are often able to determine aspects of the context of NT writers from their letters, it is much more difficult to understand Paul's letter to the Romans.

From around 700 BC the Iron age brought numerous hill forts, brochs and fortified settlements which support the image of quarrelsome tribes and petty kingdoms later recorded by the Romans, though evidence that at times occupants neglected the defences might suggest that symbolic power had as much significance as warfare.

" This dreadful scene struck the Romans who were present with so much horror and compassion that they all cried out with one voice that they would rather die a thousand deaths in defence of their liberty than suffer such outrages to be committed by the tyrants.

Simply put, the Romans created a much larger administrative area under that name than the original ancient Macedon.

Instead, there is much more of a focus on the home and the family unit — something that the Romans, including Plautus, could easily understand and adopt for themselves later in history.

Polybius concludes the Romans are the pre-eminent power because they are a diverse society in which much of the public have a voice and contribute.

Although particularly associated with the Romans, aqueducts were devised much earlier in Greece and the Near East and Indian subcontinent, where peoples such as the Egyptians and Harappans built sophisticated irrigation systems.

The torsion ballista, developed by Alexander, was a far more complicated weapon than its predecessor and the Romans developed it even further, especially into much smaller versions, that could easily be carried.

The Thermae Selinuntiae ( at modern Sciacca ), which derived their name from the ancient city, and seem to have been much frequented in the time of the Romans, were situated at a considerable distance, 30 km, from Selinunte: they are sulfurous springs, still much valued for their medical properties, and dedicated, like most thermal waters in Sicily, to San Calogero.

Earlier, the Classical Romans interacted with ( and later conquered ) parts of Mauretania, a state that covered northern portions of modern Morocco and much of north western and central Algeria during the classical period.

Additionally, unlike the Egyptians and Romans, the Babylonians had a true place-value system, where digits written in the left column represented larger values ( much as in our base-ten system: 734 = 7 × 100 + 3 × 10 + 4 × 1 ).

After much discussion and disagreement, the Romans decide to trust Ambiorix and leave the next morning.

Modern historians use it much more frequently than the Romans themselves did ; the dominant method of identifying Roman years was to name the two consuls who held office that year.

In fact so much so that, ancient Greeks, Romans and Phoenecians placed as much importance on large public rose gardens as they did on wheat fields and fruit orchards.

The Agri Decumates and much of the Limes Germanicus in Germania Superior were officially abandoned during his reign, with the Romans withdrawing to the Rhine and Danube rivers.

This invasion was apparently thrown back into Quadi territory without too much difficulty as far as the Romans were concerned, but the incursion marked the start of a long series of attempts to cross the border.

On 27 May 1257 the archbishop of Cologne himself crowned Richard " King of the Romans " in Aachen ; however, like his lordships in Gascony and Poitou, his title never held much significance, and he made only four brief visits to Germany between 1257 and 1269.