Search results for "Hellenistic Civilization" - New World Encyclopedia
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- * The Hellenistic ruin of Qasr al Abd, in the near-by valley of Wadi Al Seer * Petra, two hours from Aqaba, is one of the most breathtaking places ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- informed the public of the laws of the civilization, while in Asia, stelae ... Ptolemy V who was the fifth ruler of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Dynasty. The ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- *Buckle, Henry Thomas. History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2. Adamant Media Corporation, 2006. *Charron, Pierre. The "Wisdom" of ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- although the fact that the Olmec civilization had come to an end by ... alone, not just as a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was perhaps the first ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- be the foundational culture of Western civilization. Greek culture was a powerful ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Arab, and Ottoman ... have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Arab, and Ottoman ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- 250 px|Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan.]] ... Antioch, and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra (now ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- role in the founding of Egyptian civilization. Bordering lands were ... the Nile River for irrigation, Egyptian civilization would probably have been ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- hold upon the sites of the oldest civilization, Argos, Mycenae, and Sparta… ... in her iconographic representations. In Hellenistic imagery, Hera's wagon ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- historical term broadly refers to the civilization of the Nile Valley between ... Egyptian civilization had a bias towards unity, rather than towards ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- writings gleaned from the work of the Hellenistic Period Egyptian priest ... ancient culture. This progenitor civilization is supposed to have been ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 19:38, 24 May 2024
- succession of more than 30 Hellenic and Hellenistic kings, ... The Greco-Bactrians maintained a strong Hellenistic culture at the ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- The first sculptures in India date back to the Indus Valley civilization ... of Indian post-Gupta mannerism, with Hellenistic or even Greco-Roman, influences ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- Atlas, a second century Roman copy of a Hellenistic work (Naples)]] ... culture, arts and literature of Western civilization. Though the ancient Greek ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean ... the current ruler of the Minoan civilization. What the Minoans called ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- The first recorded use of trigonometry came from the Hellenistic mathematician Hipparchus Joseph Hunt, [http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Pa ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- The cult of Isis rose to prominence in the Hellenistic world, beginning ... he instituted, and Isis acquired in the Hellenistic age a "new rank as ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- characteristics of Western civilization. His goal was to find reasons ... Chinese civilization had no religious prophecy nor a powerful priestly ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- non-Greek areas, a period known as the Hellenistic Age. Alexander himself ... effects, with the flourishing of Hellenistic civilization throughout the Middle ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- alone, not as just a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was the first documented ... of Numbers: How Mathematics Has Shaped Civilization. New York: Fawcett Columbine ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
