Pueblos are modern and ancient communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States of America.

Those used by the ancient Pueblos of the Pueblo I Era and following, designated by the Pecos Classification system developed by archaeologists, were usually round, and generally believed to have been used for religious and other communal purposes.

For the ancient Greek mathematicians, geometry was the crown jewel of their sciences, reaching a completeness and perfection of methodology that no other branch of their knowledge had attained.

The only extant Greek parent manuscript of the letter, the Codex Mediceus Laurentius, says, " Those who had walked in ancient practices attained unto newness of hope, no longer observing Sabbath, but living according to the Lord's life ..." ( kata kyriaken zoen zontes ).

He was skilled in the science of music, the theory of sounds, and the ancient and modern scales ; but he never attained any excellence as a performer.

At first the position was an Episcopate, which was revered as one of the three most ancient Episcopates, along with Rome and Antioch, several centuries before Jerusalem or Constantinople attained that status in 381 or 451 ; the five subsequently came to be known as the Pentarchy.

This definition is incorrect, however, as sumo is, in fact, an ancient art that has attained popularity and media coverage in the modern era.

However, certain persons, though very few in number, were born into other varnas but dedicated themselves to such an austere life that they were also recognized as Brahmins in ancient India ( e. g., sage Vishwamitra, a non-brahmin who attained brahmavidya and composed the Gayatri mantra was venerated as " Brahmarishi ", not by caste but by title / pre-fix accorded to him by the well-read in general in those days ).

An old-growth forest ( also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, late seral forest, or in Britain, ancient woodland ) is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance, and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and in some cases may be classified as a climax community.

The only extant Greek manuscript of the letter, the Codex Mediceo-Laurentianus, reads, " If, then, those who had walked in ancient practices attained unto newness of hope, no longer observing Sabbath, but living according to the Lord's life ..." ( kata kyriaken zoen zontes ).

Kyoto is the ancient capital of Japan and still its cultural center.

Thus far the only people who have been attested with a high level of genetic, historical, linguistic and cultural research to be the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians are the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and its surrounding areas in north west Iran, north east Syria and south eastern Turkey.

Although most cultural systems of astrology share common roots in ancient philosophies that influenced each other, many have unique methodologies which differ from those developed in the West.

" Clive Ruggles argues it is misleading to consider archaeoastronomy to be the study of ancient astronomy, as modern astronomy is a scientific discipline, while archaeoastronomy considers symbolically rich cultural interpretations of phenomena in the sky by other cultures.

The lighting of a community Beltane fire from which each hearth fire is then relit is observed today in some parts of the Gaelic diaspora, though in most of these cases it is a cultural revival rather than an unbroken survival of the ancient tradition.

Bambara is a language / dialect of the Manding language cluster, a cluster of languages whose ethnic-speakers generally trace their cultural history to the ancient city of Manding, where modern-day Kita, Mali now exists.

Numerous other ethnographic techniques have resulted in ethnographic writing or details being preserved, as cultural anthropologists also curate materials, spend long hours in libraries, churches and schools poring over records, investigate graveyards, and decipher ancient scripts.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

These African importees have had the most dominant racial influence, and their rich and ancient culture has had an influence second only to that of Europe on the political and cultural character of the modern Dominican Republic.

While ancient writers do not normally share modern historical practices, their work remains valuable for its insights within the cultural context of the times.

During the social and cultural climate of the ancient Eastern Jin Dynasty ( 316-420 AD ) based at Nanjing in the south, painting became one of the official pastimes of Confucian-taught bureaucratic officials and aristocrats ( along with music played by the guqin zither, writing fanciful calligraphy, and writing and reciting of poetry ).

Though details of genealogy differ from one ancient author to another, the cultural significance of the mythic theme, that the descendants of Heracles, exiled after his death, returned after some generations in order to reclaim land that their ancestors had held in Mycenaean Greece, was to assert the primal legitimacy of a traditional ruling clan that traced its origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles.

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.

With the breakup of the Empire, the dispersed Mongols quickly adopted the mostly Turkic cultures surrounding them and were assimilated, forming parts of Tatars ( not confused with a tribe in ancient Mongolia ), Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Yugurs and Moghuls ; linguistic and cultural Persianization also began to be prominent in these territories.

The ancient languages of the local Thraco-Illyrian people had already gone extinct before the arrival of the Slavs, and their cultural influence was highly reduced due to the repeated barbaric invasions on the Balkans during the early Middle Ages, accompanied by persistent hellenization, romanisation and later slavicisation.

The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece and of ancient democracy and one of the world's greatest cultural monuments.

Many Spanish proverbs have a long history of cultural diffusion ; there are proverbs, for example, that have their origin traced to Babylon and that have come down to us through Greece and Rome ; equivalents of the Spanish proverb “ En boca cerrada no entran moscas ” ( Silence is golden ) belong to the cultural tradition of many north-African countries as far as Ethiopia ; having gone through multiple languages and millennia, this proverb can be traced back to an ancient Babylonian proverb.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan also intended to construct his capitol at Agra as an urban center that would rival both Istanbul and Isfahan in all its wealth and cultural lifestyle. He even bestowed the title or surname " Chaudhury " to the family of Dutta Chaudhury, the very ancient Zamindar of Andul, which is situated in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

While it is commonly assumed that traditions have ancient history, many traditions have been invented on purpose, whether that be political or cultural, over short periods of time.

By his naming the blade " Sting " we see Bilbo's acceptance of the kinds of cultural and linguistic practices found in Beowulf, signifying his entrance into the ancient world in which he found himself.

The Wheel of the Year has been important to many people both ancient and modern, from various religious as well as cultural and secular viewpoints.

China, an ancient nation comprising a fifth of the world population, was finally open to the world in a new and powerful synthesis of west and east, creating a new state after the near-complete destruction of the old cultural order.

The Austrian sovereign also promoted culture in Milan through projects such as converting the ancient Jesuit College, in the district of Brera, into a scientific and cultural centre with a Library, an astronomic observatory and the botanical gardens, in which the Art Gallery and the Academy of Fine Arts are today placed side by side.

* Ecclesia or Ekklēsia, the principal assembly of ancient Athens during its Golden Age.

The Golden Rule in its prohibitive form was a common principle in ancient Greek philosophy.

The Malay Peninsula was known to ancient Tamils as Suvarnadvipa or the " Golden Peninsula ".

Jason (, Iásōn ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero who was famous for his role as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.

The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world.

" James George Frazer in his work on anthropology, The Golden Bough ( p. 736 ) holds that " the ancient fire-festival of the winter solstice appears to survive " in the Yule log custom.

The one missing element from this ancient game was the Golden Snitch.

The Argonauts (, Argonautai ;, Argonavtebi ) were a band of heroes in Greek mythology who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis ( ancient Georgian Kingdom ) in his quest to find the Golden Fleece.

Graves, and many other mythographers, were influenced by The Golden Bough of James Frazer, and since it was published many myths have been reinterpreted to reveal clues to ancient religious practices that were kept as secret rituals.

Due to their hunting prowless, the Golden Eagle is regarded with great mystic reverence in some ancient, tribal cultures.

:" When I first put pen to paper to write The Golden Bough I had no conception of the magnitude of the voyage on which I was embarking ; I thought only to explain a single rule of an ancient Italian priesthood.

The Golden Hinde replica is at St Mary Overie Dock and nearby are the remains of the medieval Winchester Palace which is a scheduled ancient monument.

In 1870 Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel in Geschichte der Römischen Literatur ( A History of Roman Literature ) innovated the definitive philological classification of classical Latin based on the metaphoric uses of the ancient myth of the Ages of Man, a practice then universally current: a Golden Age and a Silver Age of classical Latin were to be presumed.

The book thus explains the alleged provenance of the Book of Mormon as an ancient record, mostly of the Nephites, compiled by Mormon and Moroni on Golden Plates.

Major tourist routes in Russia include a travel around the Golden Ring of ancient cities, cruises on the big rivers like Volga, and long journeys on the famous Trans-Siberian Railway.

Veliky Novgorod, Pskov, Dmitrov and the cities of Golden Ring ( Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Kostroma and others ) have at best preserved the architecture and the spirit of ancient and medieval Rus ', and also are among the main tourist destinations.

Plant species typical of ancient woodland are found in this area, including bluebells ( Hyacinthoides non-scriptus ), Marsh Marigolds ( Caltha palustris ) and Golden Saxifrages ( Chrysosplenium sp .).

Works like Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Menaechmi by Plautus, Cena Trimalchionis by Petronius, and The Golden Ass of Apuleius are ribald classics from ancient Europe.

All of the wood used in El Escorial comes from the ancient forests of Sagua La Grande, on the so-called Golden Coast of Cuba.

James Frazer ( author of The Golden Bough ) and others ( such as Jane Ellen Harrison, Robert Graves and Marija Gimbutas ) advance the idea that goddess worship in ancient Europe and the Aegean was descended from Pre-Indo-European neolithic matriarchies.

This Golden Age shows that even before Alexandria, ancient Greeks had sentiments of an ideal pastoral life being something that is lost to them.

The ancient ' Golden Rule ': everyone should act as they would wish everyone else to act.

The Domus Aurea ( Latin, " Golden House ") was a large landscaped portico villa built by the Emperor Nero in the heart of ancient Rome, after the great fire in 64 AD had cleared away the aristocratic dwellings on the slopes of the Palatine Hill.

His rule spanned c. 380 – 413 / 415 CE, during which the Gupta Empire achieved its zenith, art, architecture, and sculpture flourished, and the cultural development of ancient India reached its climax .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 92493 / Chandra-Gupta-II >.</ ref > The period of prominence of the Gupta dynasty is very often referred to as the Golden Age of India.