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  • 91Egypt, ancient — Introduction  civilization in northeastern Africa dating from the 3rd millennium BC. Its many achievements, preserved in its art and monuments, hold a fascination that continues to grow as archaeological finds expose its secrets. This article… …

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  • 92Mesopotamian religion — Introduction  beliefs and practices of the Sumerians and Akkadians, and their successors, the Babylonians and Assyrians, who inhabited ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in the millennia before the Christian era. These religious beliefs and… …

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  • 93OCRFeeder — Developer(s) Joaquim Rocha (Igalia) …

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  • 94Abraham — (). For Muslims, he is a prophet of Islam and the ancestor of Muhammad through his other son Ishmael born to him by his wife s servant, Hagar. Abraham is also a progenitor of the Semitic tribes of the Negev who trace their descent from their… …

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  • 95Babylonia — Ancient Mesopotamia Euphrates · Tigris Sumer Eridu · Kish · Uruk · …

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  • 96ISO 15924 — ISO 15924, Codes for the representation of names of scripts, defines two sets of codes for a number of writing systems (scripts). Each script is given both a four letter code and a numeric one.[1] Script is defined as set of graphic characters… …

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  • 97Nathaniel Schmidt — Mionb (talk) 16:58, 15 November 2011 (UTC) Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, Cornell University. Nathaniel Schmidt (May 22, 1862 – 1939) of Ithaca, New York was a Swedish American Baptist minister, Progressive democrat, educator and orientalist.… …

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  • 98Hethites — • One of the many peoples of North Western Asia, styled Hittim in the Hebrew Bible, Khuti or Kheta on the Egyptian monuments, and Hatti in the cuneiform documents Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Hethites     Hethites …

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  • 99SUMER, SUMERIANS — Prehistory Sumer (Akk. Šumer ī Sumerian Kengir) is the earliest known name of the land corresponding roughly to the southern half of Iraq. It was first settled about 5000 B.C.E. by agriculturists from the hilly regions to the north and/or east,… …

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  • 100Gilgamesh — was the son of Lugalbanda and the fifth king of Uruk (Early Dynastic II, first dynasty of Uruk), ruling circa 2600 BC, according to the Sumerian king list. He became the central character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the best known works of… …

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