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- Cappadocia (7924 bytes)
4: ...ent geography, '''Cappadocia''' was an extensive inland district of [[Asia Minor]] (modern [[Turkey]])...
6: ...define its limits with accuracy. [[Strabo]], the only ancient author who gives any circumstantial acco...
14: ...the name Cappadocia came to be restricted to the inland province (sometimes called Great Cappadocia), ...
16: .... The only two cities of Cappadocia considered by Strabo to deserve that appellation were Caesarea (origin...
22: ...]]; and the continuity of the native dynasty was only interrupted for a short time after Alexander's d... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
11: ...t. The decipherment in the 1950s of [[Linear B]] unlocked the meaning of this script, but an earlier s...
15: ...he goldsmiths' and painters' work of the Greek mainland ([[Mycenae]], [[Vaphio]], [[Tiryns]]).
29: In the absence of written records, only a summary history can be derived from monuments ...
67: ...] came into use early in this Minoan period, but only a few documents made of durable material have su...
69: ...illed both these ends: [[Zakro]] must have had mainly a commercial purpose, as the starting-point for ... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
57: * [[Strabo]] (Roman Empire, Greece, [[63 BC|63 B.C.]]/[[64 B... - Eratosthenes (4241 bytes)
23: ...ian Sea]] to [[Ethiopia]]. Only [[Hipparchus]], [[Strabo]], and [[Ptolemy]] were able to make more accurat... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...rk: although Hipparchus wrote at least 14 books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem ...
8: ...in their commentaries on the ''Almagest''; from [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Plin...
20: ...pparently mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His fam...
32: ...tributed to [[Kidinnu]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned...
51: ...ous amount of computation required, this is very unlikely. Rather, Hipparchus would have made a list ... - History of geography (6224 bytes)
5: ...s]], [[Aristotle]], [[Dicaearchus]] of Messana, [[Strabo]], and [[Ptolemy]]. Mapping was introduced by th... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...rk: although Hipparchus wrote at least 14 books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem ...
7: ...in their commentaries on the ''Almagest''; from [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Plin...
19: ...pparently mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His fam...
31: ...tributed to [[Kidinnu]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned...
50: ...ous amount of computation required, this is very unlikely. Rather, Hipparchus would have made a list ... - Mauryan (48769 bytes)
38: ...E, after conquering the Nanda Empire when he was only about 20 years old.
51: ...k ambassador at his court, named [[Deimachus]] ([[Strabo]] 1–70).
54: ...y, and their food is principally a rice-pottage." Strabo XV. i. 53-56, quoting Megasthenes<ref>[http://www...
85: [[Image:MauryanCastCopperCoinLate3rdCenturyBCE.jpg|thumb|left|Mauryan cast coppe...
117: ...[[Kautilya]]'s ''[[Arthashastra]]'' contains not only maxims on ancient statecraft, but also unambiguo...
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