Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 111 BC 110 BC 109 BC 108 BC 107 BC - 106 BC - 105 BC 104 BC 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC 106 BC - Events. Sulla captured Jugurtha, thus ending the Jugurthine War. The Chinese and t ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 109 BC 108 BC 107 BC 106 BC 105 BC - 104 BC - 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC 100 BC 99 BC 104 BC - Events. Aristobulus I succeeds John Hyrcanus as king of Judea. Sima Qian starts writing his Shiji. Athenion starts a slave rebellion in Segesta. Gaius Marius is consul of Rome, the fir ...

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Starting about 113 BC, Emperor Wu appeared to begin to display further signs of abusing his power. He began to incessantly tour the commanderies, initially nearby Chang'an, but later extending to much farther places, worshipping the various gods on the way, perhaps again in the search of immortality. He also had a succession of magicians whom he honored with great things, even, in one case, making one a marquess and marrying a daughter to him. (That magician, after he was exposed to be a fraud, however, was executed.) Emperor Wu's expenditur ...

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Cernunnos in Celtic polytheism is the deified spirit of horned male animals, especially of stags, a nature god associated with produce and fertility. As a "Horned God", Cernunnos was one of a number of similar deities found in many ancient cultures. Cernunnos - Origins. Cernunos is known, from archaeological sources such as inscriptions and depictions, to have been worshipped in Gaul, Northern Italy (Gallia Cisalpina) and the southern coast of Britain. The earliest known probable depiction of Cernunnos was ...

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Cotton has been used to make very fine lightweight cloth in areas with tropical climates for millennia. Some authorities claim that it was likely that the Egyptians had cotton as early as 12,000 BC, and evidence has been found of cotton in Mexican caves (cotton cloth and fragments of bloody fibre interwoven with feathers and fur) which dated back to approximately 7,000 years ago. There is clear archaeological evidence that people in South America and India domesticated different species of cotton ind ...

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Amman (Arabic عمان ʿAmmān), the capital of the Kingdom of Jordan, is a city of more than 1.6 million inhabitants (2000), and is the commercial and administrative centre of Jordan. Amman - History. Throughout history, Amman has been inhabited by several civilizations. The first civilization on record is during the Neolithic period, around 6500 BC, where archaeological discoveries in Ain Ghazal, located in eastern Amman, showed evidence of not only a settled life but also the growth of art ...

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Due to its remote location, and difficult accessibility, Petra is often speculated to be the city of refuge that God will one day use to supernaturally protect the remnant of Israel from the forces of the Antichrist, during the end times (a view based on several passages of the Book of Revelation, in the Bible). In these passages, Israel (represented by the figure of a pregnant woman who gives birth to a man child—a reference to Christ's advent from Israel) is allowed to flee to the desert (Petra?) in order to escape the forces of t ...

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Transylvania was first referred to in a Latin language document in 1075 as "Ultra silvam," meaning "beyond the forest." In 1075 King Géza I of Hungary when endowing the Benedictine abbey of Garamszentbenedek (now in Slovakia: Hronský Beňadik) granted to it half of the royal salt duty to be collected on the lading point of Arieş (Hungarian: Aranyos) riverside ("in loco, qui dicitur hungarice Aranas, latine autem Aureus"), near the Turda (Hungarian: Torda, German: Thorenburg) salt mine, located "ultra silvam" (Source: Diplomata Hungariae Antiquissima, vol. I. B ...

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Palace of Culture, Iaşi Palatul Parlamentului, Bucharest Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest The University, Bucharest Orthodox Cathedral, Cluj-Napoca Catholic Church, Cluj-Napoca National Theatre, Cluj-Napoca Bariţiu Street, Cluj-Napoca Eroilor Ave, Cluj-Napoca National Theatre, Târgu Mureş Casino, Constanţa Borzeşti Church, Borzeş ...

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Main article: Demographics of Romania Romania - Ethnicity. Ethnic groups (Census 2004): Romanian 88.5% Hungarian 5.5% Roma 2.5% Ukrainian 2.3% German 0.3% Russian 0.2% Turkish and Tatar 0.2% Other 0.4% Other ethnic groups include natives of Romania's neighbouring countries and some smaller groups like the Polish minority (numbering a few th ...

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