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The period 2700 – 2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian abacus, a table of successive columns which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of their sexagesimal number system.
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* 2700 BC-2660 BC: Early Dynastic ( Archaic ) period ended in Ancient Egypt ( according to French Egyptologist Nicolas Grimal ).
The " Hafeet graves ", also called " Mezyat graves ", were structures built above ground, dating to the Bronze Age period between 3200 and 2700 BC in an area straddling the borders between Oman, UAE, and Bahrain.
One of the earliest civilizations to appear around Greece was the Minoan civilization in Crete, which lasted from about 2700 ( Early Minoan ) BC to 1450 BC, and the Early Helladic period on the Greek mainland from ca.
For example, an Earth-like planet at 1. 25 astronomical units from α Cen A ( with a revolution period of 1. 34 years ) would get Sun-like illumination from its primary, and α Cen B would appear 5. 7 to 8. 6 magnitudes dimmer (− 21. 0 to − 18. 2 ), 190 to 2700 times dimmer than α Cen A but still 2100 to 150 times brighter than the full Moon.
According to Confucian texts, the discovery of silk production by B. mori dates to about 2700 BC, although archaeological records point to silk cultivation as early as the Yangshao period ( 5000 – 3000 BCE ).
According to the MISD Report Card, the per student expenditure for the same 2002 period was 2700 USD.
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Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.
A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.
In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.
The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.
Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.
During the period of the Iberian Union ( 1580 – 1640 ), Portugal lost influence and power and made new enemies.
The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).
The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).
According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.
During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with Russia and other former Soviet republics was $ 205. 6 million ( double the amount from the same period the previous year ), making them the country ’ s number one trading partner.
Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).
In 1896 England under the captaincy of W G Grace won the series 2 – 1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance.
In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.
During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.
* Borschberg, Peter, " O comércio de âmbar asiático no início da época moderna ( séculos XV-XVIII ) – The Asiatic ambergris trade in the early modern period ( 15 to 18 century )" Oriente, Lisbon: Fundação Oriente, vol.
His work chronicled in Latin the history of Rome from 96 to 378, although only the sections covering the period 353 – 378 are extant.
* 1952 – Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
* 1910 – The Japan – Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan – Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
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It is also widely held by scholars that the island was not occupied by humans during the Middle Bronze Age ( 2300 – 1600 ), though researchers have recently suggested that the lack of evidence from this period may only demonstrate the lack of excavations on Chios and the northern Aegean.
The period 2300 – 500 BC was the most intensive carving period, with carvings of agriculture, warfare, ships, domesticated animals, etc.
The Chinese Confucian thinker Mencius, who 2300 years ago sought to give advice to the ruthless political leaders of the warring states period, was convinced that the mind played a mediating role between the " lesser self " ( the physiological self ) and the " greater self " ( the moral self ) and that getting the priorities right between these two would lead to sage-hood.
This period can be sub-divided into an earlier phase ( 2300 to 1200 BC ) and a later one ( 1200 – 700 BC ).
Lerna is notable for several archaeological sites, including an Early Bronze Age structure known as House of the Tiles, dating to the Early Helladic period II ( 2500 – 2300 BC ).
The Rhyacian (;, meaning " stream of lava ") is the second geologic period in the Paleoproterozoic Era and lasted from 2300 Mya to 2050 Mya ( million years ago ).
The cup resembles a late Neolithic ( approx 2300 BC ) ceramic beaker with corded decoration and was until 2007 thought to date to a much later period of c. 1650-1400 BC.
In the society that emerged there are no overt signs of newcomers but signs of continuity, therefore despite the violent natural catastrophe, there is an internal evolution that is formalised around 3500 BC when we have the beginning of the Chalcolithic ( copper and stone ) period that lasted until about 2500 / 2300 BC.
The Siderian (;, meaning " iron ") is the first geologic period in the Paleoproterozoic Era and lasted from 2500 Mya to 2300 Mya ( million years ago ).
* Daniel 8: 14 – According to the day-year principle, this period of 2300 days is interpreted as 2300 years.
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