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How Did Government Propaganda Develop
...statements on public works such as temples created. A consistent theme in history is as new media became invented, governments used those as vehicles of offi ...: Pu, M., 2005. Enemies of civilization: attitudes toward foreigners in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China . SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and c

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How Did Historiography Evolve in the Hellenic World
...nals and therefore can be said to have practiced “historiography,” the ancient Greeks were the first people to write critical, narrative histories. Due to ...ry Greek historian, Herodotus, is generally thought of as “the father of history,” while Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) is often seen as the leader of the sec

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What is Zoroastrianism
...rstood religions in history. Originating in ancient Persia probably in the middle of the second millennium BC, Zoroastrianism gradually spread through the wo An examination of the ancient sources reveals that when the Achaemenid kings began worshipping Ahuramazda

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How Did the Elamites Become a Powerful Bronze Age People
[[File: Elam_Map.png|300px|thumbnail|left|Map of Ancient Elam in Relation to Mesopotamia and Persia]]__NOTOC__ ...l members of the Great Powers Club, their influence in the Bronze Age Near East was just as profound.

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How did the Phoenicians contribute to western civilization
...haped the culture and the economy of the Levant and greatly influenced the Ancient Greeks, Etruscans, Hebrews, and many others. Sadly, we only know them from ...ed new political systems that influenced other civilizations in the Middle East. Their neighbors also adopted many of their cultural practices. They helped

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What is the history of creation mythologies
...arly literate societies in the Middle East, creation myths appear early in ancient texts. The Sumerian myth focuses on how the gods An (sky), Enlil (supreme g Conflict was a common theme in creation myths in the Near East, including great battles between gods. In Zoroastrian traditions, Gayomard

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Why Were there Multiple Ancient Mesopotamian Creation Myths
...at was approached differently by various peoples in the ancient world. The ancient Egyptians had three primary cosmogonies that corresponded with three of the ...gion. Mesopotamia, though, was quite a different situation. The history of ancient Mesopotamia is one of various ethnic groups and city-states battling for he

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What is the History of Pandemics
...1. The Justinian Plague is perhaps among the most devastating pandemics in history.]] ...in many different periods, created a large-scale population reduction. For ancient periods, pandemics were often conflated with plagues. While the recent COVI

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How Did the Plague of Justinian Change History
...lague of Justinian (541–542 CE) was one of the worst plagues in recorded history, arguably bringing two major empires to devastation and affecting numerous ...d with anti-biotics today, periodic outbreaks would have likely devastated ancient populations without any known immunity.

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How Did the Hyksos Conquer the Egyptian Delta
[[File: Hysksos_farmer.jpg|250px|thumbnail|left|An Ancient Egyptian Depiction of a Hyksos Farmer. The Egyptian Word for Hyksos, “Heq During ancient Egypt’s long and illustrious history, many foreign groups attempted to invade the Nile Valley, but few were succ

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What is the History of Social Distancing
...periods, it has been the most effective and common form of practice. Some history of this practice is given. ==Early History==

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Why Did Seth Worship Become Popular in Ancient Egypt
...Ptah, and Heliopolis for Atum. These were three of the best known gods in ancient Egypt and their cities were among the most important, but there were a host ...me a particularly popular god during two far separated periods in Egyptian history, though probably for different reasons. Seth’s popularity in the Second D

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How Did the Mauryan Dynasty Come to Power
...ern and middle regions. <ref> Avaru, Burjor. India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Sub-continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200. (London: Routle ...e Ethics of Aśoka and the Religious Inspiration of the Achaemenids.” East and West 34 (1984) pgs. 300-2</ref> The first post-Vedic Magadha dynast

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How Did the Ancient Egyptian State Form
...ancient world. One of the less apparent but no less important features of ancient Egyptian civilization was its amazing stability and endurance. Pharaonic cu ...t Dynasty, ushering in the “Early Dynastic Period” of ancient Egyptian history in the process. Narmer created the Egyptian state, but it was the responsib

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Who was Memnon the African hero in Greek Mythology
...of this African hero provides a crucial insight into the worldview of the Ancient World. It demonstrates that they were often more tolerant when it came to r ...was based on an unknown African king, whose name has not been recorded by history. Still, the Greeks were made aware of his achievements by tales spread by m

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Where Was the Kingdom of Alashiya
...il|left|Map Depicting the Major Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century BC Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Cyprus Is Shown as the Location of Alashiya]]__N The Late Bronze Age Near East (c. 1500-1200 BC) is known for the remarkably sophisticated geopolitical sy

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When Did the Nubian Kingdom of Meroe Rise to Prominence
...often overlooked as one of the more important peoples of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean because they were often under the thumb of the Egyptians, ...for a time, and there are a plethora of texts from around the ancient Near East, including the Bible, that document their activities. But the Kingdom of Me

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What Role Did the Canaanites Play in the Bronze Age Near East
...r role in the history of the ancient Near East. Although the people of the ancient Levant (roughly equivalent to the modern nation-states of Israel, Palestine ...the region through their language and religion, spread throughout the Near East and from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age.

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How historically accurate is the Gladiator
...g it clear that Commodus was his choice all along. He also died in Vienna (ancient Vindobona), but the film showed him dying in Germania during the campaign. ...tests did often reconstruct famous battles or scenes using characters from history or legends. Gladiator contests did take place in many places around the emp

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