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- 5Th Century Bc -- 4Th Century
The Roman Stadium was built in the 4th century BC. It was hosting the Panathenaic Athletic contests. Herodes Atticus inaugurated the stadium when he rebuild the seats with Pentelic marble. The stadium was strangely abandoned for centuries. It was finally restored in order to welcome the first modern Olympic Games of 1895. - Century
The unifying characteristic of the Century Series aircraft was advanced performance and avionics when they were introduced. The F-100 was the first aircraft in the USAF capable of exceeding the speed of sound in level flight. The F-101 was the first aircraft in the USAF capable of exceeding 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h). The F-102 was the first aircraft in the world to utilize area rule in its design. Three of the Century Series aircraft — F-101, F-102, and F-106 — were armed with nuclear air-to-air missiles. F-102 and F-106 were the only aircraft in USAF arsenal at the time in which a nuclear weapon was under control of a single person (during a mission). - Japanese -- Centuries
Before the 5th century, the Japanese had no writing system of their own. They began to adopt the Chinese writing script along with many other aspects of Chinese culture after their introduction by Korean monks and scholars during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. - Zoroastrianism -- Centuries
After Alexander the Great conquered Persia in the late 4th century BCE, Zoroastrianism declined in importance for the next 500 years, apart from the rise of Mithraism, which influenced Christianity. In the 3rd century CE it became the state religion of the Sassanid dynasty, only to succumb to the rise of Islam in the mid-7th century, after which it all but disappeared from the world. - Monasticism -- Century
Monasticism was integral to Byzantine life. From the fourth century, after the founding of the first monastic institution in Constantinople, Dalmatou, monasteries proliferated throughout town and country. By the early sixth century, there were over seventy monasteries in the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. Monks and nuns came to play critical roles in the doctrinal debates at the center of imperial politics. - Manichaeism -- Centuries
In the Eastern Roman Empire, Manichaeism came to a zenith around 400 CE, but then rapidly declined. Around 150 years later, it once more rose into prominence. The Emperor Justinian himself disputed with them; Barsymes the Nestorian prefect of Theodora, was an avowed Manichæan too. After a certain decline at the moment of the rise of Islam, Manichaeism flooded the Eastern Roman Empire again, this time under the name of Paulicians, or Bogomiles (8th – 10th centuries). - Gnosticism -- Centuries
Gnosticism is a modern category used for defining a set of second-and third-century C.E. schools of thought and trends that have in common gnosis, a peculiar form of revealed knowledge that leads to salvation, having in itself both its value and its basis. In opposition to faith, gnosis takes root in the experience, generally human, of perceiving a division, a split between the self and the world, between the self and God, and between the self as a founding reality and the empirical ego. As global and absolute knowledge, gnosis aims at overcoming these dichotomies, recovering the individual's threatened integrity and restoring the lost unity of being. - Roman Legion -- Centuries
To answer problems of poor maneuverability and other phalanx weaknesses, the Roman legion developed a new formation called the manipular system. This is what people see most in Hollywood movies of Roman military scenes. The manipular system is based upon several companies of Roman soldiers ranging in size from 60 Roman soldiers (called Centuries) to between 4000-6000 Roman soldier (called a Legion). The table below will outline the various groups on more detail: - Iberian Peninsula -- Centuries
Many inscriptions in the Iberian scripts have been found on the Iberian peninsula, in southern France and on the Balearic Islands. The oldest known inscriptions date from the 4th century BC. The scripts are thought to have derived from the Punic alphabet. - Easter Island -- Centuries
Easter Island art ... includes barkcloth images, wooden ornaments, and featherwork. Apart from the stone figures and petroglyphs, virtually all surviving works from the island date to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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