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    Enochian Scripture

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    Enochian Scripture Should Enochian Scripture and the Necronomicon be considered as a true religion‚ or just another offshoot of Satanism‚ cult? The Necronomicon is closest documented translation of the original Enochian scripture‚ the Necronomicon Manuscript. The Necronomicon was first translated in Damascus in 730 A.D. by Abdul Alhazred. The Necronomicon‚ is not‚ as popularly believed‚ a grimoire‚ or sorceror’s spell-book; it was conceived as a history‚ and so "a book of things now dead

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    Peloponnesian War Causes

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    Causes and major events of Peloponnesian War Let’s remember the earlier events. In the years when there was Persian war‚ conflict between Athens and Sparta seemed not so strong‚ Themistocles‚ whom the ancient historians considered as a talented politician‚ and person who could foresee events begins to build walls around the city. During the struggle between Greeks and Persians (457 - 446 BC.) two most powerful states in Greece had a desire to dominate and as the result they had military clashes

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    The Role of the Spartazn Army Sparta‚ a city in Southern Greece‚ was a militarist state‚ whose territory included all Laconia and Messenia‚ and was the most powerful state in Peloponnesus. Having the army to conquer and then command such a vast range of land must be put down to the high skill and tactical minds of the army. If it were not for their formidable attacking and defensive capabilities‚ which they had trained for so many years to perfect‚ Sparta would not have been the power we know

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    The Parthenon in Athens Greece was built from 447 BCE- 438 BCE‚ the sculptures continuing to be worked on for an additional six years after. The building of the Parthenon was possible because of the embezzlement of Delos‚ a small city that allied with Athens during the war. After the war was ended‚ Athens had control of Delo’s treasury‚ and choose to use it to rebuild the temple that the Persians had burnt down. They had vowed to not rebuild the temple until after the Persians had been defeated

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    Colonization and Maritime Navigation COLONISATION As Greece is comprised of many islands‚ the sea has always played an important role in its history. Colonization of surrounding areas began during the Geometric Period (900-700 BCE)‚ and continued throughout Archaic and Classical Greece. Starting around 700-600 BCE the more powerful Greek city states gradually began establishing colonies‚ first in the Mediterranean‚ and then all the way from western Asia Minor‚ to southern Italy‚ Sicily‚ North

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    butterflies at every flower” (Sandford). Education was seen as unnecessary to women since they would never use it. For men‚ it was different though. They still had to go to school and learn logic from Aristotle‚ science from Newton‚ and history from Thucydides and Livy. It was expected for boys to attend school to get a good education. These roles were accepted socially and would not change until later in the century. The second half of the 20th century was greatly different from the first half in terms

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    Following the Enlightenment‚ philosophical thinkers and social scientists have reduced reason to an instrument and appetite to a drive. All existing narratives of politics‚ if not of international relations‚ find their roots in appetite. Since Thucydides‚ Plato and Aristotle‚ and although manifested in different ways‚ the spirit’s quest for self-esteem1 is universal. Studying the spirit as an important motive in international relations is a hard task because we assume that it can only express itself

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    ------------------------------------------------- To what extent was Themistocles responsible for the Greek victory in the Persian Wars? Daniel Ashby Themistocles was responsible for the Greek victory in the Persian wars to a considerable extent. The key to Athens’ strength in the 5th Century BC was in this general and statesman and therefore‚ as Greek victory relied so heavily on Athens‚ Themistocles vitally contributed to the outcome of the Persian king’s invasion of 480-479 BC. His early

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    History

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    Herodotus‚ a 5th-century B.C. Greek historian is considered within the Western tradition to be the "father of history"‚ and‚ along with his contemporary Thucydides‚ helped form the foundations for the modern study of human history. Their work continues to be read today and the divide between the culture-focused Herodotus and the military-focused Thucydides remains a point of contention or approach in modern historical writing. In the Eastern

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    Historic recurrence is the repetition of similar events in history.[2] The concept of historic recurrence has variously been applied to the overall history of the world (e.g.‚ to the rises and falls of empires)‚ to repetitive patterns in the history of a given polity‚ and to any two specific events which bear a striking similarity.[3] Hypothetically‚ in the extreme‚ the concept of historic recurrence assumes the form of the Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence‚ which has been written about in various

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