In the second century BCE the ancient Jews were overrun by the Assyrians, a Greek proxy in the ancient Middle East.
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" Pausanias, in his Description of Greece, written in the second century a.d. remarks, "The Ionian countryside has excellently tempered seasons, and its sanctuaries are unrivalled.
Nevertheless, these ancient roads, used for thousands of years and considered to have been 'opened up' by the Chinese General Zhang Qian in the second century BC, had no particular name.
In the early second century, a majority of bishops in Asia Minor voted to condemn the text as blasphemous.
Just as reducing the constraints on trade in goods made the world richer in the second half of the 20th century, so reducing the constraints on the movement of people could be a powerfully enriching force in the first half of the 21st.
Beginning with the Muslim Brotherhood of Hassan el-Banna in 1928, followed by the movements founded by Islamist ideologues like Abul ala Maududi, Sayyid Qutb and the extremist Deobandi creed in South Asia, radical Islam established a strong presence in the Muslim world in the second half of the 20th century.
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America will never again have the same dominance that it had in the second half of the 20th century.
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The textile arts recovered in the second half of the 19th century, however, when Western buyers developed a love for the art.
We see the stable prosperity many of us experienced in the second half of the twentieth century as more of a historical aberration.
George Gilder rightly claims that the most consequential product in the second half of the 20th century, ahead of jet aircraft, is the microprocessor.
But academics researching the social history of Britain in the second half of the 20th century may perhaps grant him the immortality of a footnote.
Take them out and your people's health will improve, but the world will get warmer, as the West found in the second half of the 20th century.
In the courtyard of Cape Coast Castle lies the tomb of Philip Quaque, the chaplain to the officers and men of the castle for 42 years in the second half of the 18th century.
Western Australia will be led by Test batsman Marcus North, who is not 100% certain of his own place in the Test team but enhanced his chances with a century in the second Test against India last month to end a run of low scores.
Australia have only played South Africa once at the WACA ground, in 2005, when Brad Hodge made an unbeaten double century in the second innings as the match finished in a draw.
This stuff now seems superficial when seen against the more free-spirited, Zen-like pictures that European collectors have acquired in the second half of this century, a freer-spirited time for the West.
Shane Watson was named man of the match for his 93 in the first innings and unbeaten 120 - his maiden Test century - in the second, while Johnson's three second-innings victims mean he finishes 2009 with 63 Test wickets.
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The 39-square-kilometre park is the first highly successful reforestation project in Brazil, started back in the second half of the 19th Century.
In the second half of this century, who would have expected still to hear a-going, a-laking (playing) or a-springing?
In the second decade of this century, Esa plans to launch the Darwin flotilla - a fleet of four or five spacecraft that will hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars and analyse their atmospheres for signs of extra-terrestrial life.
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England convincingly won the first Test, although they had been reduced to 98-6 in the second innings before Matt Prior's century helped the home side establish a comfortable lead which Pakistan failed to chase down.
The campaign for women to have the right to vote began in earnest during the second half of the nineteenth century.
With limited capital and the recession looming, she began organizing riotous pop-up shows in semipermanent venues across London and the States, and also in Paris, where Sellers has a second home, an 18th-century apartment in the heart of the Marais that's been transformed into a contemporary haven by Ab Rogers, son of the architect Richard Rogers.
Excavations have revealed that the earliest remains in Miletus date from the second half of the sixteenth century B.
The in-form Vaas did reach his second half century of the competition, before smashing Adil Rashid to mid-wicket on 53.
Although Hamilton Masakadza again showed his unfulfilled potential, belying his average of just 26.20 with a gritty second-innings century in a losing cause in the second Test.
In the second half of the 19th century, the Arab states borrowed heavily from Europeans.
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Most notably, many of these cosponsors were nations that emerged from tyranny in the second half of the last century.
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