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  • ...wn as New Rome, was influential in Europe's history and culture during the Middle Ages. By the 15th century, the Empire was in terminal decline and had been Byzantium and Italy had a long and complicated history. In the 6th century, Emperor Justinian reconquered much of the peninsulas f
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  • ...rendered has come to be called the Amarna style. It is unique in Egyptian history due to its dramatic departure from traditional artistic conventions. ...hetaten,” or “The Horizon of the Aten,” located at Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt. Thebes was well established as Amen's city, and Akhenaten claimed t
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  • During the Bronze Age, the economies of the ancient Near East became linked to broader ancient Old World in Central Asia, India, and Euro ...70192037?partnerid=41307&p_ti State and Temple Economy in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the International Conference]'' Orientalia Lovaniensia Anal
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  • ...onze Age, as it was an important element that helped link the ancient Near East with the broader ancient Old World in Central Asia, India, and Europe throu ...Leuven (1970- ), eds. 1979. ''State and Temple Economy in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the International Conference''. Orientalia Lovaniensia Anal
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  • ...y and influenced the development of subsequent languages. The ancient Near East displays some of the world’s earliest common languages shared by several ..., unlike these other languages, Akkadian spread in use throughout the Near East, Egypt, and even reached Cyprus by the 2nd millennium BC. Written Akkadian
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  • ...Katie, Colin Renfrew, and Marsha Levine, eds. 2002. Ancient Interactions: East and West in Eurasia. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Ins ...rther down to another region. This made regions in Europe, China, and Near East, much less aware of each other. The primary reason for this state was much
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  • ...pted and codified later. See: Stein, Peter. 1999. ''Roman Law in European History.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, pg. 31.</ref> ...oman Empire did continue in the form of the Byzantine Empire in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Here, the rulers titled themselves as emperors in a sim
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  • ...are the origins of mathematics and how did this field evolve in its early history?<ref>For further information on factors leading to the rise of early mathem ...seems to have happened both in Mesopotamia and Egypt (Figure 1).<ref>For a history on the development of the Pythagorean theorem, see: Katz, Victor J., and A
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  • ...ortrayal of the type of weapons that were used in the Late Bronze Age Near East. ...s portrayed in numerous reliefs from different periods in ancient Egyptian history. Ramesses II is perhaps most famously shown wearing the hairstyle as he giv
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  • ...ing that changed Europe, and it is widely seen as heralding the end of the Middle Ages and ushering in the Modern World. Many Italian city-states and the Pap ...Adriatic Sea, sometime in the 5th century AD.<ref>Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1982), p 13</ref> Over time, several settl
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  • The history of water use and technologies to bring water to human societies is long, pa ...y to have been simple ditches or cuts made to irrigate fields. In the Near East, irrigation likely began soon after agriculture began to be developed.<ref>
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  • ...economic expansion in any way. Russia’s economic growth did create a new middle class. However, this class was excluded from the political system and resen .... In 1905 Russia was routed by the Japanese Empire in a brief war in North-East Asia. This defeat was a national humiliation, and the Tsar and his governme
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  • ...m which were expressions of the legislative power of the emperor as by the middle of the 2nd century AC the emperor was the sole creator of the law; and the [[Category:Legal History]] [[Category:Roman History]] [[Category:European History]]
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  • *[[American Legal History Top Ten Booklist]] ...gory:Middle East History]] [[Category:Legal History]] [[Category:Religious History]]
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  • ...ty Press, pg. 39.</ref> During this time, many other cultures in the Near East had adopted agriculture and began to live in villages. What that indicates ...Id=eb271794cbdee215189ec9eaa744b8cf Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East: The Organizational Dynamics of Complexity]'', edited by Gil Stein and Mitc
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  • ...zens. The concept of justice, in fact, has evolved from very early written history, showing some similarities early on with modern ideas of law and justice fo ...laws of Urukagina, see: Kramer, Samuel Noah. 1995. ''The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character''. 12. [pr.]. Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press.<
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  • ...e finds at Nahal Qanah and Varna Necropolis show is that early from gold's history it had already become an object that differentiated wealth and status in so ...y Life in Ancient Mesopotamia''. The Greenwood Press “Daily Life through History” Series. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, pg. 123.</ref> Gold, for privat
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  • ...Figure 1. Pharaoh Den from the First Dynasty smiting his enemies from the "east."]] ===Early History===
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  • ...sponse to those terms would lead to the most destructive conflict in world history - World War Two. ...g a series of independent democracies across Eastern Europe and the Middle East, conflict raged for years, leading to opportunities for Hitler's Germany an
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  • *How Did Nebuchadnezzar Impact Ancient Near Eastern History? *How Did Sargon of Akkad Influence Ancient Mesopotamian History?
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