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  1. 10 hours ago · The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [a] History of technology By technological eras Premodern Prehistoric Stone Age (lithic) Neolithic Revolution Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Ancient Modern Proto-industrialization First Industrial Revolution Standardization Second ...

  2. 10 hours ago · v. t. e. The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ParthenonParthenon - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · In that case, the room originally known as the Parthenon could have been a part of the temple known today as the Erechtheion. In 5th-century BC accounts of the building, the structure is simply called ὁ νᾱός (ho naos; lit. "the temple"). Douglas Frame writes that the name "Parthenon" was a nickname related to the statue of Athena ...

    • 447 BC
    • Classical
    • 73 by 34 m (240 by 112 ft)
    • Athens, Greece
  4. 10 hours ago · Herod Antipas – Herod Antipater (born before 20 BC – died after 39 AD), known by the nickname Antipas, was a 1st-century AD ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch ("ruler of a quarter"). Herod Archelaus – Herod Archelaus (23 BC – c. 18 AD) was the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea (biblical Edom) from 4 BC to 6 AD.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › GoguryeoGoguryeo - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · The Samguk sagi, a 12th-century text from Goryeo, indicates that Goguryeo was founded in 37 BC by Jumong, a prince from Buyeo, who was enthroned as Dongmyeong. Goguryeo was one of the great powers in East Asia , [17] [18] [19] until its defeat by a Silla–Tang alliance in 668 after prolonged exhaustion and internal strife caused by the death ...

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Early_SlavsEarly Slavs - Wikipedia

    10 hours ago · Battle between the Slavs and the Scythians — painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1881). The early Slavs were an Indo-European peoples who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th century AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early and High Middle ...

  7. 1 day ago · Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. He was inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty as a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.

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