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  2. Oct 1, 2024The 9th century BC started the first day of 900 BC and ended the last day of 801 BC. It was a period of great change for several civilizations. In Africa, Carthage is founded by the Phoenicians.In Egypt, a severe flood covers the floor of Luxor temple, and years later, a civil war starts.. It is the beginning of the Iron Age in Central Europe, with the spread of the Proto-Celtic Hallstatt ...
  3. Marduk was a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon.When Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), Marduk slowly started to rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC.
  4. Oct 1, 20249th century BC depiction from a cylinder seal of the Statue of Marduk, Babylon's patron deity Marduk's main cult image in the city. Cylinder by Nabonidus, commemorating restoration work done on a temple dedicated to the god Sîn in Ur. ... Tablet containing a 6th-century BC Babylonian "map of the world", featuring Babylon at its center.
  5. Nov 3, 2024In the 9th century BC, Feizi, a supposed descendant of the ancient political advisor Gao Yao, was granted rule over Qin City. The modern city of Tianshui stands where this city once was. During the rule of King Xiao of Zhou, the eighth king of the Zhou dynasty, this area became known as the state of Qin. In 897 BC, under the Gonghe Regency, the ...
  6. Nov 3, 2024Much work has been done to identify other Homeric sites such as the palace of Nestor at Pylos. These attempts have been the subject of much scholarly research, archaeological work, and controversy. Theories on the location of "Homer's 'Ithaca'" were formulated as early as the 2nd century BC to as recently as AD 2005.
  7. Dec 5, 20243rd century BC: Analog computers in the Hellenistic world (see e.g. the Antikythera mechanism), possibly in Rhodes. By at least the 3rd century BC: Archimedes' screw, one of the earliest hydraulic machines, was first used in the Nile river for irrigation purposes in Ancient Egypt Early 3rd century BC: Canal lock in Canal of the Pharaohs under Ptolemy II (283-246 BC) in Hellenistic Egypt
  8. Nov 3, 2024From the mid-9th century AD onwards, the uncial script was replaced in book writing by a new writing style, the Greek minuscule, which used more compact, rounded letter shapes and was partly based on the earlier cursive. This innovation may have centered on the scribal work of the Stoudion monastery in Constantinople. The earliest type of books ...
  9. Dec 5, 2024Its translation into Arabic in the 9th century was highly influential on the geographical knowledge and cartographic traditions of the Islamic world. Alongside the works of Islamic scholars ... Maps based on scientific principles had been made in Europe since the time of Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC.
  10. The classical-era poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 BC) continued this literary narrative technique in the Aeneid, which is part of the Roman literary tradition of imitating Homer.Later works starting in medias res include the story "The Three Apples" from the One Thousand and One Nights (c. 9th century), the Italian Divine Comedy (1320) by Dante Alighieri, the German Nibelungenlied ...
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