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What was the impact of Augustus' victory over Mark Anthony and Cleopatra on Rome
...iven control of the west, including Rome, while Mark Anthony was given the east.<ref> Holland, p. 216</ref> The control of Rome was crucial for Augustus in ...16</ref> Anthony also increasingly acted like an independent ruler in the east and did not consult the Roman Senate or his supposed ally and partner Augus

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Could Another Alphabet Have Developed
The alphabet used in most languages derives from the ancient Canaanite alphabet that developed in the early to mid 2nd millennium BCE in ...de networks across the Mediterranean and likely inland regions in the Near East.<ref>For more on Ugarit, see: Yon, Marguerite. 2006. The City of Ugarit

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What if the Battle of Qadisiyyah Had a Different Result
...eventually Persia, allowing the new Islamic Empire to emerge in the Middle East and, eventually, expand to other areas. ...wealth. However, by the early 7th century CE, major wars across the Middle East devastated much of the region and led to both these empires to deplete thei

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Was there an Ancient Suez Canal
...ges. The Silk Roads effectively moved goods, ideas, and people between the East and the West, but the trek through central Asia was extremely long, difficu ...by nearly 100 ships a day and is an extremely vital connection between the East and the West.

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What Was the Importance of Ziggurats in Ancient Mesopotamia
...ntly, ziggurats were built by a plethora of different people who inhabited ancient Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia, unlike Egypt, was full of disparate and, at times ...visible and tangible sign of a king’s power. Any king worth his salt in ancient Mesopotamia had to build a ziggurat that could be seen for miles around, wh

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How Did Howard Carter Discover Tutankhamun’s Tomb
...from his as well. <ref> Shaw, Ian and Paul Nicholson. The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995), p. 61</ref> It also helped th

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How Did the Ancient City of Nineveh Fall
...ire, which at its height stretched from Egypt in the west to Persia in the east and included most of Anatolia, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. ...fall was so important because, for a time, it was the greatest city in the ancient world as it served as a source of inspiration and awe for Assyrians and non

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How did dogs develop into pets
...ogs became domesticated relatively early in complex human societies, their history as pets is generally less clear. ...to their domestication. One idea is that the Siberian, Eurasian, or Middle East grey wolf or their relatives, although not necessarily a direct ancestor of

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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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How did cats become pets?
...- Three Quarter.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Figure 1. Seated cat statue from ancient Egypt.]] ...rom their wild ancestor, we can understand their development in the Middle East and beyond more clearly than dogs.

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Why Was Imhotep the Ancient World's Greatest Scientist
...engineer, doctor, and thinker named Imhotep who lived in Egypt during the middle of the third millennium BC. ...im near the step pyramid. All of these factors combine to make Imhotep the ancient world’s greatest scientist.

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When were water fountains created
...that being water. Today, this symbolism has not changed very much from its ancient roots. ...Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq, where a series of basins were utilized in the ancient city of Lagash that likely tapped water from irrigation networks and canals

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When did taxation emerge
====Early History==== ...(2006) Temples, tithes, and taxes: the temple and the economic life of ancient Israel. Peabody, Mass, Hendrickson Publishers.</ref>

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How Did Cremation Emerge as a Death Ritual
...bitions in the Semitic and Afro-Semitic populations, such as in Palestine, ancient Mesopotamia, and Egypt, continued through historical periods.<ref>For more ...o bury their dead even before the full emergence of Hinduism and Buddhism. Ancient China and Japan appeared to have buried their dead, although this practice

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How Did Marriage Develop in the West
...Western regions, this is no different, although over time, for most of our history over the last two thousand years, marriage had become more narrowly defined ...may have emerged.<ref>For more on Neolithic marriages in Europe and Middle East, see: Szecsenyi-Nagy, A., Brandt, G., Haak, W., Keerl, V., et al. (2015) Tr

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History of Empires Top Ten Book List
...e east, was often contrasted from the West. Empires in the Middle East and east Asia sustained themselves by using the strengths of ethnic and religious di 2. Kwarteng, K. (2015) War and gold: a five-hundred-year history of empires, adventures and debt. Paperback ed. London, Bloomsbury. This

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Why Was the Ancient City of Palmyra So Important
...|250px|thumbnail|left|Map Showing Ancient Trade Routes with Palmyra in the Middle]]__NOTOC__ ...can be seen today only as a ruins. Carthage, Hattusas, and Palmyra are all ancient cities that fall into this category.

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Are there Ancient Roots to Socialism
...ity to have larger communities.<ref>For more on inequality and equality in ancient societies and size, see: Dyble, M., Salali, G.D., Chaudhary, N., Page, A., ...societies, see: Turner, B.S. (1984) Capitalism and class in the Middle East: theories of social change and economic development. London, Heinemann

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What was the impact of the Babylonian War (311-309 BCE) on the Hellenistic World
...erful of all the successors. He came to dominate much of the modern Middle East, Turkey, and most of Greece. The other generals were fearful of the growing ...n Demetrius. Ptolemy wanted Seleucus to distract the Antigonus army in the east so that the Antagonids would not invade his Egyptian territories. The Babyl

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How did Timur change the history of the world
...han, he was not a great Empire-builder, but he was a major figure in world history. In the wake of his conquest, Asia was transformed, and he left an enduring ...here were Churches from China to Syria. Christianity had flourished in the East despite periodic persecutions from the Mongols and others.

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