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|Emperor of the Mauryan Empire of India from 273 BC to 232 BC. He was upset by the horrors of war after and became an advocate of Buddhism.  After his conversion, he had thousands of rock pillars erected that were inscribed with the teachings of the Buddha.  These are the first recordings of Buddha's teachings.
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|Emperor of the Mauryan Empire of India from 273 BC to 232 BC. He was upset by the horrors of war after being triumphant, and became an advocate of Buddhism.  After his conversion, he had thousands of rock pillars erected that were inscribed with the teachings of the Buddha.  These are the first recordings of Buddha's teachings.
 
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|A history by Julius Caesar describing the wars he fought.
 
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|The fifth Roman emperor, ruling from 37 AD to 41 AD, who is historically depicted as a brutal monster, and who was so hated that he was murdered by his own guards.
 
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|The geographical area that encompasses modern-day Israel, the West Bank and a portion of land east of the Jordan River.
 
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|An ancient settlement in southern Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey.
 
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|A Roman statesman who during the Punic War called for the destruction of Carthage.
 
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|Jean Champollion (1790-1832) is the father of Egyptology (the study of Egypt), and who translated a portion of the Rosetta Stone.
 
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|[[Chandragupta Maurya]]  
 
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|The founder of the Mauryan Empire in India who ruled between 320 BC and 293 BC. The first Indian emperor to be converted to Jainism, he eventually renounced his throne and joined a group of nomadic Jain monks.
 
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|A Roman consul, statesman, lawyer, philosopher and author. After Julius Caesar's assassination, Cicero was one of the most powerful politicians in Rome, and was Mark Antony's rival.
 
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|A Roman hero for whom the city of Cincinnati, Ohio was named. In 458 BC, he raised an army in Rome and came to the aid of the consul Minucius and his men, who were trapped in a dead-end valley by the Aequians. The Roman Senate had declared war against the Aequians because they had been raiding Roman farms.
 
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|[[Zealots]]
 
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|A group of Jews in the 1st century AD who sought the violent overthow and expulsion of Rome from Israel. Their most famous battle (and defeat) came at the Masada, a mountain fortress that still holds spiritual significance for Israel today.   
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|A group of Jews in the 1st century AD who sought the violent overthrow and expulsion of Rome from Israel. Their most famous battle (and defeat) came at the Masada, a mountain fortress that still holds spiritual significance for Israel today.   
 
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|[[Zeno]]  
 
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