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  Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A definite line was drawn between the two continents by the geographer Ptolemy (85 - 165 AD), indicating Alexandria along the Prime Meridian and making the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa.
This beast of burden was first brought to Egypt by the Persians after 525 BC, although large herds did not become common enough in North Africa to establish the trans-Saharan trade until the eighth century AD.
The Sanhaja Berbers were the first to exploit this, and after the spread of Islam a steady trade in precious metals, ivory, salt and slaves ensued between the Muslim states in the Maghreb and the Sahelian kingdoms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Africa   (5638 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Sacrament of Penance
The distinction between sins that could be forgiven and others that could not, originated in the latter half of the second century as the doctrine of the Montanists (q.v.), and especially of Tertullian.
While still a Catholic, Tertullian wrote (A.D. 200-6) his "De poenitentia" in which he distinguishes two kinds of penance, one as a preparation for baptism, the other to obtain forgiveness of certain grievous sins committed after baptism, i.e., apostasy, murder, and adultery.
haer.", I, xiii, 7, in P.G., VII, 591).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11618c.htm   (15700 words)

  
 Davinci Code
The first reference to her as such comes in a sermon by Pope Gregory the Great in AD 591.
By contrast, the New Testament documents were written before AD 100, and the letters of Paul were written before AD 70.
In the second century, when Gnostic heresies began to creep into the church, bishops in the larger cities pointed out that their congregations had been founded by the apostles and that there had been a clear continuity of teaching between the time of the apostles and their own time.
www.gracecommunityallentown.org /DavinciCode.htm   (1454 words)

  
 DSRB Auction 7 Catalogue, Lots 51-100
Numerous pictorial ads (one folding and with map) 12mo, original sheep over printed boards.
535 [1] 4 [ads] pp., 155 woodcut illustrations by author.
viii [19]-591 [1, ad] pp., 2 engraved frontispieces, plates, numerous text illustrations.
www.dsloan.com /Auctions/A7/A7%2051-100.htm   (4769 words)

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