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  • ...n today what represents a bed differs greatly from culture to culture. The history of the bed, like most furniture, has been shaped by its complex development ==Early History==
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  • ...demonstrate that it is an evolution of sports that have been played since ancient times. ...Greco-Roman games, see: Nardo, Don. 1999. <i>Greek and Roman Sport. World History Series.</i> San Diego, CA: Lucent Books.</ref> We do not know the exact rul
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  • ...hed by millions. Although modern boxing has a lot of similarities with its ancient cousin, the mix with television, big money, and big personalities has forev ...odriguez, Robert G., and George Kimball. 2009. The Regulation of Boxing: A History and Comparative Analysis of Policies among American States. Jefferson, N.C:
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  • ...as been used as a form of punishment or to deal with prisoners of war. The history of this institution has, however, evolved over the millennia. ...he origins of slavery, see: Heuman, G. J. (Ed.). (2012). <i>The Routledge History of Slavery</i> (1. publ. in paperback). London: Routledge.</ref>. Initially
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  • ...|left|250px|Figure 1. Example drawing of the nervous system made by Middle East medical practitioners. ]] ...re seen as a way to address healthcare in increasingly urban spaces in the ancient world. In the Medieval and Modern periods, new practices emerged that allow
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  • ...op economic success, where universities play a critical role. However, the history of universities was very different, and these institutions were first relat ...Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions
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  • ==Early History of Sanitation== ...king clay pipes could safely transport waste. By the Neolithic in the Near East in the 7th and 6th millennia, vertical shafts were used for waste disposal
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  • ...any and all of Southern Italy. He was one of the most powerful men in the Middle ages, and he attempted to change the political system of Medieval Europe. H ...the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Frederick II in 1225." <i>Journal of Medieval History 41 #1</i> (2015): 41-59</ref>
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  • ...rew in wealth and importance throughout the 3rd millennium BCE in the Near East and Indus, both these regions likely developed city walls that could only b ...elation to royal roads, see: Briant, P. (2002). From Cyrus to Alexander: a history of the Persian Empire. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, pg. 364.</ref>
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  • Honey is probably one of the most ancient sweeteners used by humans. Additionally, it was perhaps consumed not only b ...ore on the earliest history of honey, see: Crane, E. (1999). <i>The world history of beekeeping and honey hunting.</i> New York: Routledge.</ref>
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  • ...itchen Berlin 2.jpeg|thumbnail|250px|left|Figure 1. Bread preparation from Ancient Egyptian models.]] ==Early History of Bread==
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  • ...in South and Southeast Asia. The spread of this pepper is intertwined with ancient trade expansion that once connected the length of the Old World. In more re ...difficult to detect, so this can only be a conjecture.<ref>For more on the ancient use of black pepper, see: Ravindran, P. N., ed. 2000. <i>Black Pepper: Pipe
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  • ...an history, private bath facilities were a rare commodity. Thus, it is the history of bath houses that is associated with social concepts of cleanliness and t ...or more on the development of bathing and bath houses in ancient Greek and east Mediterranean cultures, see: Lucore, S. K., & Trümper, M. (Eds.). (2013).
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  • Father's Day, like Mother's Day, does have some ancient traditions and roots, although most modern celebrations are influenced by t ====Early History====
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  • ...to key developments in the industrial age, although its idea is much more ancient. ...dy by the 2nd millennium BC, around 1800 BC, records from the ancient Near East state of Mari indicate ice was being collected for refreshment during the h
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  • ==Early History== ...in the Mediterranean region, see: Klarich, Elizabeth, ed. 2010. <i>Inside Ancient Kitchens: New Directions in the Study of Daily Meals and Feasts.</i> Boulde
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  • ...imperial aspirations were only a fraction of that in the New Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom was no less important. ...ring that Egypt would be among the longest enduring civilizations in human history.
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  • [[File:Chichen Itza Observatory 2 1.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Figure 1. Ancient observatory from Chichen Itza.]] ...eveloped. The importance of astronomy to the past is attested because some ancient languages only went extinct after astronomical observations ceased. On the
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  • The ancient Near East could be a brutal place and among the most efficiently brutal of all Near E ...north to Babylon in the south. <ref> Kuhrt, Amélie. <i> The Ancient Near East: c. 3000-330 BC.</i> Volume 1. (London: Routledge, 2010), p. 192</ref> The
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  • ...period, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of East Asia transformed from polytheistic worshiping to believing in a single god ...universal philosophies first developed in limited regions around the Near East, where Iranian Zoroastrianism may have played an important, influential rol
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