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	MSN Encarta - Calligraphy
		By the 5th century bc, a less complicated method of writing had been developed by the Phoenicians; the Greeks with whom the Phoenicians traded used this system as a basis for the first alphabet.
		During the 1st century bc, papyrus was replaced by parchment and vellum, made from animal skins.
		Towards the end of the 19th century John Ruskin and William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, concerned themselves with the preservation of craftsmanship in handmade artefacts.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558001/Calligraphy.html (1819 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 19th century - Calendar Encyclopedia
		As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900.
		While the 20th century was the century of politics and science, the 19th was the century of society.
		The 19th century was a contrast from old to new, the old monarchies and feudal systems to the new capitalist world and democracy.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /19th_century.htm (673 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Virtual Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		19th century BC This statue of Amenemhat III is the only fully preserved royal stone sculpture in the Hermitage, a superb example of Ancient Egyptian portrait art.
		Amenemhat III, Pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty (19th century BC), is shown in traditional pose, seated on a cube-shaped throne and wearing the royal nemes headwear crowned with a cobra.
		The grandiose memorial temple complex in the region of the Fayum Oasis (the modern city of Hawara) was the embodiment of his might, his power and wealth, and was called the Labyrinth by the Greeks, leading Herodotus to write that "The Labyrinth excelled even the pyramids".
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/08/hm88_0_0_2_0.html (279 words)

	18th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		(19th century BC - 18th century BC - 17th century BC - other centuries)
		1787 - 1784 BC -- Amorite conquests of Uruk and Isin
		1750 BC -- Hyksos occupation of Northern Egypt
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1750_BC (183 words)

	Shechem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Within the remains of the city can still be found a number of walls and gates built for defense, a government house, a residential quarter and the ruins of a temple raised to Zeus by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, the latter dating to the second century CE.
		In the Amarna Letters, (of about 1350BC), Shachmu (Shechem) was the center of a kingdom carved out by Labaya (or Labayu), a Canaanite warlord who recruited mercenaries from among the Habiru.
		Labaya was the author of 3 Amarna letters, and his name appears in 11 of the other 382 letters, referred to 28 times, with the basic topic of the letter, being Labaya himself, and his relationship with the rebelling, countryside Habiru.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shechem (505 words)

	19th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(20th century BC - 19th century BC - 18th century BC - other centuries)
		In 1876 BC (According to Bible) Israelites enter Egypt after two years of famine.
		1806 BC -- Traditional date for the end of the Xia Dynasty in China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1900_BC (120 words)

	GG in the Military - Women Warriors - Through the 19th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Telessilla, a 5th century BC warrior poet, rallied the women of the besieged city of Argos with war hymns and chants and led them in defending the city against the invading forces.
		Centuries later Amina, daughter of Queen Turunku of the Songhai in mid-Niger ruled the Hausa empire from 1536 to 1573.
		In the late 19th century Mukaya, the leader of the Luba people of central Africa whose nation stretched along the rain forest from Zaire to northern Zambia, led her warriors in battle against enemy tribes and rival factions.
	www.gendergap.com /military/Warriors-1.htm (7312 words)

	Encyclopedia: 19th century BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Encyclopedia: 19th century BC Updated 92 days 23 hours 51 minutes ago.
		(2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – 1st millennium – other millennia) Events The Iron Age began in Western Europe Egypt declined as a major power The Tanakh was written Buddhism was founded Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and created the Persian Empire (6th century BC) Sparta and Athens fought the Peloponnesian...
		19th century BC nomen or birth name Amenemhat III (1807-1797 BC) was a Egypt.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/19th-century-BC (566 words)

	MSN Encarta - Puzzle
		It dates to the 19th century bc and was described by ancient Greek historian Herodotus in his 5th-century-bc writings.
		During the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century) there was interest in mathematical puzzles, as well as puzzle-vessels (jugs or mugs with hidden tubes) and mazes.
		During the last half of the 19th century, many types of puzzles were designed and published by Sam Loyd, from the United States, and Henry Dudeney, from Britain, each of whom is considered the greatest puzzle inventor of his respective country.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579670/Puzzle.html (617 words)

	19th century BC -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		1806 BC -- Traditional date for the end of the (Click link for more info and facts about Xia Dynasty) Xia Dynasty in (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China.
		1800 BC -- (The language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions) Hittite invasion of (A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey) Anatolia
		1800 BC -- (A chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits into simpler substances) Fermentation of dough, (Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses) grain, and (The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant) fruit juices
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/19th_century_BC1.htm (330 words)

	Elamites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		1750 BC) was not to be denied, and Elam was crushed in 1764 BC.
		After two centuries for which sources reveal nothing, the Middle Elamite period opened with the rise to power of the Anzanite dynasty, whose homeland probably lay in the mountains northeast of Khuzestan.
		1266 BC), the fourth king of this line, proceeded apace, and his successes were commemorated by his assumption of the title "Expander of the Empire." He was succeeded by his son, Untash-Gal (Untash (d) Gal, or Untash-Huban), a contemporary of Shalmaneser I of Assyria (c.
	history-world.org /elamites.htm (1364 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Puzzle
		In the 3rd century bc, Greek poet Lycophron made a profession of devising anagrams on the names of members of the court of Hellenistic King Ptolemy II.
		One of the earliest examples, from the 3rd century, is a square array of 1521 Greek letters, aligned 39 across and 39 down, carved in alabaster by Egyptian sculptor Moschion.
		In the late 19th century, Native American women used decorated puzzle purses with a hidden compartment to protect their money and gambling dice.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761579670__1/Puzzle.html (2375 words)

	Encyclopedia: 20th century BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Encyclopedia: 20th century BC Updated 87 days 57 minutes ago.
		Magh Ithe was the location of the first recorded battle fought in Ireland, dated to 2530 Anno Mundi (since the creation of the world), or 2670 BC, in the Annals of the Four Masters; or 2071 BC in Seathrún Céitinns chronology.
		Categories: 19th century BC The city of Nippur (Sumerian Nibru, Akkadian Nibbur) was one of the most ancient of all the Babylonian cities of which we have any knowledge, the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god, Enlil, ruler of the cosmos subject to An alone.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/20th-century-BC (747 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		According to historians, the earliest records of astrology dates back to the Babylonian Empire in the 19th century BC, when people were attempting to correlate events like famine and war with other events they observed in the skies.
		Babylonian priests were regularly called upon to use their connections with the gods to predict the future, and their two principle means of doing this were inspecting the liver of a specially sacrificed animal and reading omens in the sky.
		Between 612 and 539 BC, the sky was divided to twelve sections of thirty degrees each, constituting the twelve signs of the zodiac.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/08/05/fea06.html (1122 words)

	MSN Encarta - Zionism
		Zionism, movement to unite the Jewish people of the Diaspora (exile) and settle them in Palestine; it arose in the late 19th century and culminated in 1948 in the establishment of the state of Israel.
		Over the centuries, the Jews of the Diaspora associated the hope of the return with the coming of the Messiah, a savior whom God would send to deliver them.
		This process began in the 18th century with the Haskalah (Hebrew, “enlightenment”), a movement inspired by the European Enlightenment and initiated by the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576458/Zionism.html (461 words)

	Tattoo Introduction_with buttons
		For centuries tattooing in the Western world had associations with so-called 'primitive' cultures, partly as a result of the discovery of tattooed people by explorers in the eighteenth century, as well as the criminal classes and seafarers.
		Although tattooing is one of the oldest forms of decorative art, it is only in the last decade that it has come to be appreciated and valued for its design content, rather than for its ethnographic or subcultural impact.
		Look out for the intricate fl lines of 19th century Berlin ironwork in case 18 and the monster 15th and 16th century rings in case 34.
	www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/microsites/tattoo/search/Blue/Historyinspiration.htm (529 words)

	Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It was constructed for the pharaoh Ramesses II who reigned for 67 years during the 13th century BC (19th Dynasty).
		In the 14th century BC the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV undertook a religious reform by displacing all the traditional deities with the sun-god Aton.
		1279-1213 B.C. The son of Seti I and Queen Tuya was the third king of the 19th Dynasty.
	www.ahram.org /ancientegy.html (777 words)

	Southwestern BC (Vancouver Coast) GenWeb Project
		BC Archives Browse the overview of Textual Records, and the Finding Aid Databases, or Search the catalogue which includes on-line indexes for birth, marriage and death registrations.
		Guide to Archival Repositories in BC Entries for 173 archives in the province and includes the name and location of each repository, contact information, and a brief description of the extent, nature and scope of holdings at each institution.
		BC Museums Association This page is the index to all of the museums, art galleries, historic sites, cultural and science centres in BC known to the BCMA.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Hills/1285 (1180 words)

	Collection Highlights - The Hermitage - TicketsOfRUSSIA.ru
		The next period is that of the New Empire (1,580-1,050 BC), represented by a number of artifacts and cult objects made of bronze, wood, bone, faience and glass, and by sculptures.
		Characteristic of the hellenistic era is the statue of Queen Arsinoe II (3rd century BC).
		The museum possesses over 150 items of small statuary from the 3rd to 11th centuries made of stone, wood and bone; a small collection of Coptic easel paintings of the 4th to 7th centuries; over 450 metal objects and 40 pieces of pottery of the 5th to 10th centuries.
	www.ticketsofrussia.ru /hermitage/03/hm3_5_2.html (542 words)

	20th century BC -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in (A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC) Egypt
		1913 - 1903 BC -- (A native or inhabitant of Egypt) Egyptian- (A native or inhabitant of Nubia) Nubian war
		1900 BC -- (A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks) Achaean invasions of (A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil) Greece
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/2/20/20th_century_BC1.htm (187 words)

	British Bookbindings
		Canvas was used as a base material from the fourteenth century until the middle of the seventeenth century, but velvet was more common during the Tudor period and satin during the Stuart.
		Cottage roof designs, so called from the slanting lines at top and bottom of the panel, are very characteristic of English binding in the last quarter of the seventeenth century and first quarter of the eighteenth century, but they continued in use until late in that century and they are not absolutely peculiar to England.
		It appears to be a descendent of the fan pattern common throughout Europe in the seventeenth century.
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/bindings/index.html (6011 words)

	Centuries - Wikipedia
		See also millennia for a less detailed view, decades for a more detailed view and History for different organizations of historical events.
		The centuries BC 21st century BC - Year in Review 21st Century BC
		The centuries AD 1st century - Year in Review 1st Century
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centuries (449 words)

	20th century BC
		(21st century BC - 20th century BC - 19th century BC - other centuries)
		2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt
		1950 BC -- The copper bar cubit of Nippur defines the Sumerian cubit as 51.72 cm
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1900_BC.html (92 words)

	JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Greek Manuscripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The codices, ranging from the 10th to the 19th century, are mostly biblical and devotional volumes, including some notable early Evangelia (10th-13th century).
		The papyri collection (3rd century BC-7th century AD) consists of classical, biblical, liturgical and medical texts, and important documentary papyri, including business papers, public records, files of local government offices, taxation documents and financial memoranda.
		Dating from the first half of the second century A.D., it is believed to be the earliest surviving manuscript of the New Testament.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/spcoll/greek (209 words)

	Sun Tours Travel & Tourism - Jordan - Madaba
		The Nabataeans governed Madaba in the 1st century AD and starting in the 2nd century, it gradually became a provincial Roman city.
		In the 6th century, bishops were assigned to the city.
		In 1200 BC, Moses said to the Adomites "Let us pass...We will go by the King's Highway." Before Christ, the Nabataeans used it to carry Frankincense from South Arabia up to the Mediterranean, Hellenistic, and Roman world.
	www.suntours.com.jo /madaba.htm (506 words)

	20th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		2071 BC - Magh Ithe, first recorded battle in Ireland myths.
		2000 BC -- Farmers and herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya.
		This page was last modified 01:04, 5 October 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1950_BC (137 words)

	Palmyra -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The city is mentioned in tablets dating from as early as the 19th century
		The name Palmyra, meaning “city of palm trees,” was conferred upon the city by its Roman rulers in the 1st century AD; Tadmur, Tadmor, or Tudmur, the pre-Semitic name of the site, is also still in use.
		The city is mentioned in tablets dating from as early as the 19th century BC.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9058157 (809 words)

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