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How did Monotheism Develop
...While monotheism is often seen as something that derived from Judaism, the history of how monotheism became pervasive and expanded beyond Judaism is complex. In Biblical chronology, we see that the establishment of the state of Israel would cons

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How did the concept of paradise develop
...epresentations of Biblical Paradise in Judaism and Christianity. Themes in Biblical Narrative]'', v. 2. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.</ref> ...97b0beeb1c7b0c02" Tree of Life: An Archaeological Study]''. Studies in the History of Religion. Brill.</ref>

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Is the Film the Prince of Egypt Historically Accurate
...ere are plenty of historical facts and some fictions. The film follows the biblical account of the Exodus fairly close, closer than some other films, and corre ...oday, based on the available primary sources and archaeological data, most biblical archaeologists and Egyptologists believe that the historical Exodus took pl

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How Did Early Judicial Systems Evolve
...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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Did multi-cultural societies become widely accepted in ancient history
===Early History=== ...y in World History: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Studies in Global Social History, v. 3. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.</ref> In many cases, these migrations or c

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How Did Nebuchadnezzar Impact Ancient Near Eastern History
Jerusalem's sacking proved to be a defining moment in the history of Judaism, as important as the Exodus. Still, it was almost as important i ...in large part to his portrayal in the Old Testament. Although many of the biblical passages that relate to Nebuchadnezzar II are true, especially those in II

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Did Midas Really Have the Golden Touch
...link, M. “The Native Kingdom of Anatolia.” In The Cambridge Ancient History. Edited by John Boardman, I.E.S. Edwards, N.GL. Hammond, E. Sollberger, ...C. <ref> Masson, O. “Anatolian Languages.” In The Cambridge Ancient History. Edited by John Boardman, I.E.S. Edwards, N.GL. Hammond, E. Sollberger,

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Why Were the Philistines and Israelites Enemies
...but some of the specialists turned their attention to the more ephemeral biblical peoples. [[Category:Religious History]] [[Category:Ancient History]] [[Category:History of the Middle East]][[Category: Wikis]]

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Why Did American Colonists Become United Against England
...0c-20&linkId=830d9faf1c14899644e25151f167242f Give Me Liberty! An American History]'', 2nd ed., vol. 1 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), 171.</ref> Alt ...ure early in his argument, Paine captured his audience. Through his use of history, religion, and sheer logic, Thomas Paine presented a compelling case that a

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Ancient Egypt’s Third Intermediate and Late Periods Top Ten Booklist
Through the careful analysis of Egyptian, Assyrian, biblical, and Greek primary sources, eminent British Egyptologist, Kenneth Kitchen, ...rstand ancient Egypt’s Late Period – or any period in ancient Egyptian history for that matter – will fall short if the textual/historiographical eviden

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What were the causes of the Northern Renaissance
..., Vito. "Ho, mo, Humanus, and the Meanings of Humanism," Journal of the History of Ideas 46 (vol. 2, April – June 1985): 167 – 95</ref> This was th ...in a new and critical way. Scholars produced more reliable versions of key biblical texts and produced commentaries on the New and Old Testament. These were ve

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History of God Top Ten Booklist
...y task, here are the ten best books that try to make sense of this complex history. ...563&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c5f79436e48ccd70fe128e130224ab49 A History of God]. London: Vintage.: The book is somewhat more narrow that later

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How Did Honey Evolve in our Diet
...ore on the earliest history of honey, see: Crane, E. (1999). The world history of beekeeping and honey hunting. New York: Routledge.</ref> ...he region in the Bible as a "land of milk and honey." Both in Egyptian and Biblical references to honey lands that can grow honey are referenced as prosperous.

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The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Interview with Bonnie S. Anderson
...ished by the [https://global.oup.com/academic/category/arts-and-humanities/history/?lang=en&cc=us Oxford University Press] is an effort re-illuminate the cont ...389&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ae4748818883cd06daf0f4930762dd6b A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present Volume 1] and

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What was used for birth control in medieval Europe
...ic approvals to carry out these actions.<ref>Shirley Green, The curious history of contraception, New York: St. Martin's Press, (1971), 117</ref> Medic ...Lower Classes of Late Medieval England." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 8, no. 1 (1977), 9.</ref>

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How did the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) change England
...had been successful, it could have changed the course of English and world history. The defeat of the Armada had profound consequences for England. The first ...0&linkId=94311aba3c2131eec83402c57e9f3338 The Oxford Companion to Military History] (Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2001), p. 214</ref> The English Quee

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What are the Origins of the Abolitionist Movement
...has been remembered as one of the great humanitarian initiatives in modern history. Occurring as it did in a world that was rent by the slaveholding republics ...ut of those movements came many of the first abolitionist organizations in history. The second factor has to do with political economy. Slaveholding republics

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What Are the Origins of Egyptology
...de but are not limited to some of the following: archaeology, art history, history/chronology, and philology. Essentially, Egyptology is a modern study that c ...nd decipherment of the Rosetta Stone represented a watershed moment in the history of Egyptology, the march toward understanding the pharaohs began hundreds o

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What Were the Earliest Christian Communities like
...Matthew 28:19). By looking at Acts of the Apostles and several other extra-biblical texts, scholars have pieced together a picture of how the apostles went abo Many scholars in Christian history debate about the exact time when Christianity became distinct from Judaism

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Evolutionary Science before Charles Darwin
...n his image, vis-à-vis Adam and Eve. Viewpoints that conflicted with such Biblical teachings were met with resounding criticism and censure. Charles Darwin hi ...had no problem reconciling their findings with their Christian beliefs, as biblical accounts like Noah’s flood were seen as perfect examples of catastrophic

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Did Victorian era popular scientists try to deny biblical teachings
...time rife with scientific discoveries – some which changed the course of history as we know it (Darwin’s theory of evolution), and some which sputtered ou ...ive that they explicate their findings in a way that did not conflict with Biblical teachings.

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The Beginning of Science-Based Religious Disbelief: Atheism and Disbelief in Victorian Britain
...nsidered such theories with a grain of salt, as they often conflicted with biblical teachings. ...hat individual to exist in a society governed by rules and laws based upon Biblical teachings? Charles Bradlaugh, one of England’s most famous nineteenth-cen

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Who Were the Sea Peoples
...s often term the “Great Powers Club.” <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC. 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell, ...reat Powers Club was similar to global systems from other periods in world history – it encouraged stability in the region and the development of wealth amo

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What Were the Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths
...tian “Mennefer”) served as Egypt’s political capital for much of its history, and it was also the primary cult center of the god Ptah. Like Amun, Ptah w ...early in pharaonic history in the city of Heliopolis (Egyptian “Iunu,” biblical “On”), which was the cult center of the sun-god Atum. There are plenty

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How Did Christmas Trees Become Christmas Symbols
...endar. The Tree of Life is a symbol in many ancient cultures that also has Biblical references. Many cultures had used trees to celebrate life's renewal. In No ...y was Christmas associated with Christmas trees.<ref>For more on the early history of Christmas trees and its controversy, see: Roy, C. (2005). Traditional

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What Is the Legacy of the 1993 Waco Tragedy
...ff outside of Waco became one of the most tragic events in recent American history. By the time the standoff was over, four members of the Bureau of Alcohol T ...e of Waco, Texas that he christened “Mount Carmel” in reference to the biblical locale in northern Israel.

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Why Were the Phoenicians Such Successful Merchants
...acres. <ref> Bikai, Patricia Maynor. “Cyprus and the Phoenicians.” Biblical Archaeologist. 52 (1989) p. 206</ref> The final of the three most impor ...ory:History of the Levant]] [[Category:Wikis]] [[Category:Ancient Egyptian History]]

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What was the First Wave Feminist Movement
...on, see: Roediger, D. R., Blatt, M. H., & Lowell Conference on Industrial History (Eds.). (1999). The Meaning of slavery in the North. New York: Garla ...i>The Woman's Bible, written in 1895. Although it was much maligned by Biblical scholars, Stanton tried to argue for equality using the Bible. This helped

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How Did the God Baal Become Popular
...erranean basin by the Phoenicians and was sometimes even worshipped by the biblical Israelites. ...cient History]] [[Category: History of the Levant]] [[Category: Religious History]][[Category:Wikis]]

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What Was the Significance of the Near East Middle Bronze Age System
...scholars made great advances in the fields of philology, archaeology, and history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became clear that ...el: Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age.” In The Oxford History of the Biblical World. Edited by Michael Coogan. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001

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Did the Biblical Exodus Actually Happen
...epresents one of the most fundamental aspects of Jewish religion and early history and is also recognized as an important event by Christians and Muslims. Bey ...al and textual sources from Egypt, some of the most respected and renowned biblical archaeologists and Egyptologists are convinced that something significant h

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Urban Masses and Moral Order in America: 1820-1920 - Book Review
...years were being drawn into the fundamentalist churches with their literal Biblical creeds and their rigid codes of personal morality. Viewing the immigrant po ...ategory:Political History]][[Category:Book Review]][[Category:19th Century History]][[Category:Videri.org]]

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Is the Film Exodus: Gods and Kings Historically Accurate
...In between, there is plenty of action, which includes large-scale battles, biblical plagues, slaves being whipped, temples being built, and romances taking pla ...oncerns the biblical Exodus, it had to tackle the difficult subject of the biblical plagues. The film showed the plagues fairly accurately according to the Bib

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What Were the Impacts of the Maccabean Rebellion on the Ancient Near East
...rice, Simon. “The History of the Hellenistic Period.” In The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World. Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Gr ...their reigns. <ref> Bryce, Trevor. Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pgs. 168-73</ref>

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Did the Carthaginians Really Practice Human Child Sacrifice
...Moro, Child Sacrifice, and the Greek Legendary Tradition.” Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004) p. 443</ref> ...of gaping pit filled with fire. <ref> Diodorus Siculus. The Library of History. Translated by C.H. Oldfather. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Unive

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How Did the Scythians Influence the Achaemenid Empire
...ious kingdoms and therefore sometimes played a major role in the course of history. From China in the east to Greece in the west, Scythian hordes quickly brou Early in the history of the Achaemenid Empire, rulers such as Darius I (ruled 522-486 BC) and Xe

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What happened to the ark of the covenant
====The history of the ark of the covenant==== The ark is tied up with the early history of the Jewish people, and for many centuries it was the symbol of their nat

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Why Were the Ancient Israelites and Edomites Enemies
...of the Hebrews and the Israelites from the earliest time of Hebrew history in the Bronze Age until the Kingdom of Judah was destroyed by the Neo-Babyl The biblical origins of the Israelite-Edomite conflict can be found in the book of Genes

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Why Were there Multiple Ancient Mesopotamian Creation Myths
...e same religion. Mesopotamia, though, was quite a different situation. The history of ancient Mesopotamia is one of various ethnic groups and city-states batt ...-state having a prominent god or goddess. <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC. Second Edition. (London: Bla

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How Did the Hyksos Conquer the Egyptian Delta
During ancient Egypt’s long and illustrious history, many foreign groups attempted to invade the Nile Valley, but few were succ ...chaeological advances in the Levant, the consensus among Egyptologists and Biblical scholars shifted to the Hyksos having Canaanite-Semitic origins.

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How Did the Mitanni Kingdom Rise to Power
...i Empire also may have been an impetus for growth at an early point in its history. ...e Egyptians called Mitanni “Nahrina.” <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC. Second Edition. (London: Bla

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What Were Some of the Influences on Hittite Religion
...d in long-distance trade with each other. <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC. Second Edition. (London: Bla ...-European god. <ref> Beckman, Gary. “The Religion of the Hittites.” Biblical Archaeologist 52 (1989) p. 99</ref> Similar to the Aryan Indra, the Gre

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Where Was the Kingdom of Alashiya
...“Is Cyprus Ancient Alashiya? New Evidence from an Egyptian Tablet.” Biblical Archaeologist 49 (1986) pgs. 38-39</ref> No, the only logical location [[Category: Ancient History]] [[Category: Bronze Age History]] [[Category: Late Bronze Age]]

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What Role Did the Canaanites Play in the Bronze Age Near East
...referred to as Canaanites and the land they inhabited Canaan, based on the biblical accounts, they were several different peoples who shared cultural and lingu ...y an increasingly important role in the Near East's political and cultural history in a variety of different ways. The Canaanite kingdoms were subordinate to

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Why Was Gordian Knot Important to Alexander the Great’s Conquests
...n, <ref> Masson, O. “Anatolian Languages.” In The Cambridge Ancient History. Edited by John Boardman, I.E.S. Edwards, N.GL. Hammond, E. Sollberger, ...le of the legendary, yet real, King Midas (ruled c. 738-696 BC). Assyrian, biblical, and later Greek written sources all seem to validate Midas’s claims of w

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