Mississippi cultures
Mississippi cultures A group of interrelated Native American cultures in the central and lower Mississippi valley from
c.700 to 1700 AD. Three principal new features distinguish them from the preceding
HOPEWELL CULTURES. Most famous are the huge politico-religious centres of pyramidal, flat topped, earthen temple mounds, which were part of special religious practices, known as the Southern cult. They were surrounded by the wattle-and-daub houses of farmers. Inspiration for these ceremonial centres was ultimately derived from the cultures of Mexico (Mesoamerica), but exactly how is unclear. Famous sites include Cahokia (Illinois), Aztalan (Wisconsin), and Macon (Georgia), with vast mound complexes, the last two fortified. A second feature was the much decreased importance of burial mounds, and a third was the appearance of completely new pottery styles, also showing indirect Mesoamerican influence.
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CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN WESTERN ASIA MINOR INTO THE EARLY SECOND CENTURY: IGNATIUS AND OTHERS AS WITNESSES AGAINST BAUER
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Christian communities in Edessa, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Rome. He discussed Ignatius...particularly on what Bauer says about Western Asia Minor. This is an area for which...s thesis be sustained for Western Asia Minor? If it does not hold here...
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Asia Minor makes her mark in movies and loving it
Newspaper article from: New York Amsterdam News; 11/2/1996; ; 697 words
; ...York Amsterdam News 11-02-1996 Asia Minor makes her mark in movies and loving it. Brooklyn actress Asia Minor is a star on the rise. The...dream." A former rapper and dancer, Asia Minor is no stranger to self-expression...
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Antiochus III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Antiochus III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor New York: Oxford University Press...Seleucid rule in the western third of Asia Minor from the victory of Seleucus...reconquest of lost territory in western Asia Minor by Antiochus III was an important...
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Patrick Sims-Williams. Ancient Celtic Place-Names in Europe and Asia Minor.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Celtic Place-Names in Europe and Asia Minor (Publications of the Philological...recorded in Antiquity across Europe and Asia Minor (and, to a lesser extent...Central Europe, Southern Europe, Asia Minor, and, finally, Africa and...
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UK GOVERNMENT: UK anti-drugs co-ordinator heads UN teteam to Asia Minor.
M2 Presswire; 10/29/1999; 681 words
; ...drugs co-ordinator heads UN team to Asia Minor (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...to head a top level UN mission to Asia Minor next week to assess measures...the UK emanate or transit through Asia Minor. This mission not only provides...
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Patterns in the economy of Roman Asia Minor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2006; 494 words
; ...190512502X Patterns in the economy of Roman Asia Minor. Ed. by Stephen Mitchell and Constantina...exploring the economic history of Asia Minor during the Roman Empire. The...provinces, the monetization of Roman Asia Minor in the third century AD, and...
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Middleton in Asia Minor.(Christopher Middleton)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the numerous poems written in or about Turkey--the Asia Minor of Middleton's imagination--are the numinous center...Middleton is speaking from the shadow land of his beloved Asia Minor and that the village descended upon by the people of...
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Religions of Asia Minor.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...first real "attempt at a synthesis of the religions of Asia Minor from the oldest times to the conquest by Alexander the...not reflected in the title of the book, Religions of Asia Minor, which is rather vague - as opposed to Haas's book...
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The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor by Getzel M. Cohen is the first volume of a planned...founders, attribution of Alexander as founder, those in Asia Minor with evidence for Macedonians or Macedonian connections...
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Ancient Celtic place-names in Europe and Asia Minor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 510 words
; ...Celtic place-names in Europe and Asia Minor. Sims-Williams, Patrick. Blackwell...Euphrates and tribe names in Central Asia. Sims-Williams provides an introduction...to the less-obvious in Africa and Asia. He offers ideas for further research...
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Asia Minor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Asia Minor great peninsula, c.250,000 sq mi (647,500 sq km), extreme W Asia, generally coterminous with Asian Turkey...Dardanelles. Near the southern coast of Asia Minor are the Taurus Mts.; the rest of...
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Asia
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...in the e and w Ghats . South-west Asia includes most of the region known...largely of two peninsulas; Anatolia ( Asia Minor ) and the vast Arabian Peninsula...era. Most of China and s central Asia is composed of folded Palaeozoic and...
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Asia, Drug Use in
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
...while the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos...the drug most often associated with Asia is Opium. Opium is prepared from...document that Arabian physicians of Asia Minor extracted raw opium from the seed...
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Asia Pacific Breweries Limited
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...released in 2003. In all, Asia Pacific brews more than 40 beers...strong revenue generators for Asia Pacific. The product of a 1930s...the Singapore stock exchange. Asia Pacific Breweries is led by...Foreign sales were to remain a minor portion of the company's business...
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Seven Churches in Asia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Seven Churches in Asia addressed in the preface of the Book of Revelation . They are the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia (Lydia), and Laodicea (Phrygia). They are in W Asia Minor.
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