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Demonstrate that ancient peoples had already begun to devise mathematical rules and techniques useful for surveying land areas, constructing buildings, and measuring storage containers. -
Overthrow of the Athenian tyrant Hippias: calling in a favour owed him by the Oracle of Delphi, the greatest shrine in all Greece, he managed to obtain Spartan help and overthrew Hippias, who fled to Asia Minor. -
Greece losing its independence to the Kingdom of Macedon: during the High Classical period, Greek art became more realistic and aimed to capture the ideal human form -
The first true university in the West was founded at Bologna late in the 11th century.
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The first known public concerts for which admission was charged were given in London by the violinist John Banister at his home in Whitefriars in 1672. -
The first encyclopedias to be printed were medieval texts, -
The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofor of Italy. Cristofori was unsatisfied by the lack of control that musicians had over the volume level of the harpsichord. He is credited for switching out the plucking mechanism with a hammer to create the modern piano -
She was accused of conspire with France
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Beethoven dead
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it was a period of great social and political upheaval in France. It witnessed the collapse of the monarchy, the establishment of the First French Republic and culminated in the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and the beginning of the Napoleonic era.