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woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

became the law of the land (Rempel). While such a system may seem chaotic, and perhaps even very close to...

(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...

store by astronomy, for example, and little by astrology, which is seen as having no scientific rationale and is therefore dismiss...

similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...

2003). Because these boxes were so magnificent and rare, they were often popular booty or war prizes claimed by Assyrian kings (C...

piece. Rhyton were generally very ornate and are thought by most experts to have been mostly for ritual ceremonies, or perhaps u...

match for the ultimate prize, "possession of the earth" (Lovett, 1997, p. ix). The exact date of the competition also varies, and...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

epic is a rendition of the ancient flood narrative that predates that of the biblical Noah. The Babylonian flood narrative pictu...

of herself and reassure her that all will be will. You know what her days are like: as the wife of a noble (how silly that sound...

out what women were like because of the way in which history is written. Dependent on what is studied, it seems that some texts l...

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

of this section. He looks at marriage practices, such as how the "As a daughter, she took part in the religious acts of her father...

wife, and particularly Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Our beautiful city is named after her, and Melitta wants to honor her and as...

the concepts of order and harmony rendered ancient Kemet a strong and prosperous society: very long-lived civilization; very prosp...

the individual city-states again took control and then when the Amorites moved into Mesopotamia, around 1800 B.C., they created th...

members who were responsible for preparing "the agenda for the assembly and" carrying "out its decisions. This council also admini...

According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...

of the Fifth Dynasty, Userkhaf (2465-2458 BC) "initiated reforms that weakened the Pharaoh and central government. After his reign...

system in ancient Greece wherein a woman had a protector (kyrios) or one who watched over them. This was either a brother or their...

strategies of Romes Julius Caesar and Claudius, the author emphasizes the role infrastructural development played in wartime strat...

2005). In the case of a dictator this individual ruler is elected, and a tyrant is not elected. "A tyrant is a person who came int...

Crete ("Barbarians," 1999). The region was very peaceful. In fact, there has been only scant evidence of a military force ("Barbar...

by Homer, Vergil, by establishing Aeneas as a Trojan also justifies Romes invasion and conquest of Greece as retribution for the f...

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

exaggeration. Voltaire (1947) is in fact sarcastic and while the author is indirect in the way in which he writes, it seems that t...

was the force that recovered the information (Mathematics, 2005). In essence, in ancient times, "Scholarship supported science in ...

of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...