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He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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He is generally considered one of the greatest military commanders in history.
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The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems.
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was a Greek king of Macedon, a state in northern ancient Greece. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle until the age of 16. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. He was undefeated in battle and is considered one of history's most successful commanders.
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Also known as Flavius Odovacer, was a German soldier, who in 476 became the first King of Italy. His reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire.
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The Mayans were the only ancient American civilization with a recorded history of their own, the Mayans broadcast on stone billboards (stelas), the loudest messages of all Mesoamerican cultures.
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The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.Left to us by the greeks.
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The Crusades were a series of religious expeditionary wars blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church, with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem.
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was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death. During John's reign, England lost the duchy of Normandy to King Philip II of France, which resulted in the collapse of most of the Angevin Empire and contributed to the subsequent growth in power of the Capetian dynasty during the 13th century. Magna Carta is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions.
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Was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom.
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Were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements.
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Was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She is generally regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty.
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He became the first king of the Babylonian Empire following the abduction of his father, Sin-Muballit, extending Babylon's control over Mesopotamia by winning a series of wars against neighboring kingdoms.
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Samurai is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan.
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Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a mythical creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.
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Or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the River Eurotas in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese.
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Classical Greece was a 200 year period in Greek culture lasting from the 5th through 4th centuries BC.
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A triumphal arch is a monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road. In its simplest form a triumphal arch consists of two massive piers connected by an arch, crowned with a flat entablature or attic on which a statue might be mounted or which bears commemorative inscriptions.
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Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires.
