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| In 356 BC, a man named Herostratus tried to seek immortality by burning one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Which wonder was this? | Ancient Historical Facts
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Temple of Artemis. The attempt worked somewhat - his name was immortalized.
| Someone very famous was born the very night that Herostratus burned the ancient wonder. Who was he? | Ancient Historical Facts
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Alexander the Great. Plutarch the historian, wrote that the goddess Diana was too busy attending to Alexander's birth that she couldn't save her own temple. It was Alexander who helped to rebuild the temple after he conquered Asia Minor.
supernova. The sighting of a comet was first recorded by the Chinese more than 2000 years BC. The Babylonians were the first to record a solar eclipse in 736 BC.
| Around 2600 BC, the Egyptian queen, Hetepheres, mother of Pharoah Cheops was the first person to be ...? | Ancient Historical Facts
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embalmed . Apparently her internal organs are the only parts of her to have survived.
Colossus at Rhodes. The colossus was of the sun god Helios, and stood over 100 feet high. It was destroyed in an earthquake in 224 BC. The Laocoon is a beautiful sculpture of Laocoon, a priest of Apollo and his two sons, struggling with two large snakes.
| Isaac Newton's first law of motion - that a body stays in a state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by outside forces - was recorded centuries earlier in 250 BC by which civilisation? | Ancient Historical Facts
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Chinese. The followers of Mo Tzu, recorded this principle in the book 'Mo Ching'
| Honouring Ptolemy V Epiphanes, which important ancient work was engraved in 196 BC, and eventually lost until 1799 when it was unearthed during a military construction project? | Ancient Historical Facts
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Rosetta Stone . Engraved in hieroglyphic and demotic Egyptian as well as Greek, the Rosetta Stone was instrumental in providing the key that deciphered ancient Egyptian writing.
Rig Veda. Together the four vedas form the canon of Hinduism.
kite. The water clock was built by the Egyptians around 1450 BC. The sundial was introduced by Anaximander to the Greeks around 520 BC.
zero . The concept of zero itself is probably a lot older.
Romulus. Romulus and Remus were twin brothers, who at birth were placed into a basket and set afloat on the Tiber. The two brothers were raised by a she-wolf. They were placed in charge of a new city, Remus became angry as Romulus was given a larger share and he attacked his brother, who killed him.
| In BC494 the Plebeians withdrew from the city until Patricians met their demands for politial recognition. What was this act know as? | A Little Ancient History
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Secession. Secession is the withdrawing from a federation or confederation. See Websters dictionary for more detail.
Tribunes. The Tribunes had the right to veto the act of any magistrate which was unjust to any citizen.
The Twelve Tables. The Twelve Tables were written by the Decemviri Consulari Imperio Legibus Scribundis, who were given unprecedented powers to draft the laws of the young Republic.
Zama. The Battle of Zama in the summer of BC202 marked the end of the power of the great Hannibal Barca.
| Which island was attacked by Rome and Carthage to the point where many of their people were taken slaves? | A Little Ancient History
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Sardinia. In the years after the First Punic War, Rome wrested Corsica and Sardinia from Carthage and forced the Carthaginians to pay an even greater indemnity than the payment exacted immediately following the war.
| The process of voting for a citizen's banishment from Athens for a period of ten years was called? | A Little Ancient History
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Ostracism. Athens had a neat ceremony called Ostracism. Athenians were afraid that leaders would become dictators.
Helots. The helots farmed the land and paid part of the produce to their masters, the Spartiates.
Hoplite. Almost all the famous men of Ancient Greece, even the philosophers and playwrights, fought as hoplites.
Draco. Draco was named law giver during the archonship of Aristaechmus where he is supposed to have issued the first written laws of Athens. It from his name that the word 'draconian' ('harsh, severe - of penalties or government measures') is derived.
| What is the name of the African tribe who have advanced knowledge of the Sirius star system? | Facts
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Dogon. They claim their ancestors received this knowledge from the Ancient Egyptians.
| What was the lingua franca of the Ancient World in the time of Tutankhamun? | Facts
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Akkadian. Despite being the major force in the Near East at the time, the Egyptians used the language of their bitter rivals to communicate diplomatically. Bit like the French have to with English!
| Who is believed to be the father of Tutankhamun? | Facts
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Akhenaten. Tutankhamun was probably of mixed nationality, his mother Nefertiti being possibly a Levantine princess.
| Which Egyptian God was dog headed? | Facts
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Anubis. The Sumerian equivalent, Bau, may be where we get Bow-wow from- the word for a dog's woofing.
| What is the Greek version of the Egyptian Pharaoh's name Khufu? | Facts
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Cheops. Cheops built the Great Pyramid within his 23 year reign- at the rate of one 2 ton block every 2 minutes!
| Attis, Adonis, Mithras and Dionysus were Greek equivalents of which Egyptian God? | Facts
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Osiris. The life of Osiris also closely resembles the life of Jesus in its key elements.
| How many times was Hermes the greatest? | Facts
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three times. Hermes Trismegistos, or Hermes the Thrice Greatest, was the Greek equivalent of Thoth.
| Arcadia was a province in which country? | Facts
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Greece. Arcadia came to represent 'hidden knowledge flowing through the generations' during the Rennaisance.
Turkey. Hittite ruins can be found chiefly in modern Turkey, and most primarily upon the
Anatolian plateau that dominates the Eastern portion of the country. The climate was
continental in nature, meaning hot summers and cold winters, but the area was quite
suitable for agriculture and was well endowed with metals and timber.
Khattians. The Hittites apparently intermingled with the Khattians, taking on much of their language
and culture. The Hittites also heavily borrowed from the nearby Hurrians, paying
particular interest in their gods.
| The early kings of the Hittites were elected and supported by an assembly of warriors that
was called...? | Ancient Hittite History
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Pankush. The Pankush held a high degree of power early on in the Hittite
kingdom, but started losing influence as the kingship became a hereditary position
especially during the period of empire.
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