ceremonial meal for the human sacrifices. Archaeologists found that the meal was only partly digested‚ which means Windeby Girl’s death happened a few hours after her eating. After Windeby Girl had eaten her meal‚ her head was shaven in way described as Tacitus‚ and she was blind folded and pushed into the bog. She was then pushed down with branches and a stone until she drowned. Her body was found with jewellery and money‚ which were also part of the sacrifices mad to the goddess Ertha. New Information
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GERMANIC LANGUAGES Classification of Modern Germanic Languages and their Distribution Classification of languages means their placement into families or phyla [‘failə] on the basis of lexical or typological similarity or shared ancestry. Languages may thus be classified either genetically or typologically. A genetic classification assumes that certain languages are related in that they have evolved from a common ancestral language. This form of classification employs ancient records as well
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In just the blink of an eye life can go from living with one’s family to be a preserved body that scientists study for knowledge of the past. Pompeii is a small city in Italy located near the coast of the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius. When Mount Vesuvius erupted it nearly effaced Pompeii. However‚ this catastrophe gave scientist an opportunity to study Ancient Roman. The tragic event of Pompeii changed the lives of the civilians. The remains of those who lost their lives were able to be studied
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What were the primary reasons for the “fall” of Rome? The Roman Empire was a very strong civilization in 100 C.E. but as everyone knows‚ all good things must come to an end. The Roman Empire fell because of many reasons including disasters such as earthquakes and plagues. But I will not be focusing on that in this essay because those are not the most important‚ I believe the most important was a weak leadership due to that reason having a ripple effect. To begin with‚ weak leadership in the
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political structure was a mess and was in dire need of change. It became apparent that the system of government that had been in effect for the last four centuries was no longer efficient and had become corrupt. In Book I of The Annals written by Tacitus‚ he begins by discussing the end of the Republic and that state that the government was in. “...the protection of the laws was unavailing‚ as they were continually deranged by violence‚ intrigue‚ and finally by corruption.”1 The failure of the Republic
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The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire was‚ perhaps‚ not as severe as led to believe‚ because the eyewitnesses that remained were Christian‚ so the record can reflect a subjective Christian opinion. The story of Jesus Christ has many versions‚ one being the Jews killed him the other being the Romans. According to myth; the Romans in 30 BCE crucified Jesus‚ however‚ according to the Gospels the Jews were the ones who persecuted Jesus. Perhaps‚ in a way‚ the persecution of Christ in the
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goddesses. Thriving businesses were established‚ among them the manufacture of pottery and glass‚ the mining of ore‚ and the quarrying of building materials. Another source of information that opens up Germany culture is written history. Caesar and Tacitus both wrote about the German culture and the
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Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any physical process linking the two events‚ such as astrology‚ omens‚ witchcraft‚ etc.‚ that contradicts natural science. Opposition to superstition was a central concern of the intellectuals during the 18th century Age of Enlightenment. The philosophes at that time ridiculed any belief in miracles‚ revelation‚ magic‚ or the supernatural‚ as "superstition‚" and typically included as well much
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Who have died in Corinth? The present article challenges the assumption that the victims were from among the wealthier strata of society‚ and suggests that they instead were from among the poor. The habitual interpretation of 1 Corinthians 11.17-34 is that some from among the rich members had died because of their (own) unworthy celebration of the Lord’s supper. A more probable historical situation is that some of the ‘have-nots’ had become weak and sick due to food-shortage‚ and that some of them
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duke of Normandy used were similar to the strategy of Roman Generals (Peddie 12). Publius Cornelius Tacitus‚ a historian of the Roman Empire‚ wrote of battle strategies and Roman Emperors. From his written works of war‚ the tactic used in battle helped determine the outcome of the battle of Hastings. Without the knowledge that was passed down through written works of literature‚ like that of Tacitus‚ medieval warfare would have been different. Literature also allowed inventions that would affect war
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