But in the early Christian centuries, there were furious arguments between Christians and Jews over the precise wording of Hebrew texts, with each side accusing the other of doctoring manuscripts to suit its own case.
Between the late 18th and the early 19th centuries four very different types of British empire had begun to emerge.
Petersburgopens to guests on August 1, 2013 and is part of Four Seasons Historic Hotels, a small sub-collection within the famous luxury brand that includes unique and architecturally important heritage hotels in Europe, set in buildings dating from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
The central chapters of Mr Shapiro's book concentrate on the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the search for alternative claimants took off.
But the gold standard in the 19th and early 20th centuries, under which the value of many currencies was set in terms of gold, has long been abandoned.
Later models from the late 19th and early 20th centuries were the handcrafted trophies of the top players of the time, from Willie Park to Tom Morris to Hugh Philp.
Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early 19th centuries as a result of the rapid growth of pioneering copper and tin mining.
There were several British occupations in the 18th and early 19th centuries - and a brief period of nominal Swedish rule - before the territory was restored to France.
The unprecedented globalization of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was mostly reversed during the 1920s and 1930s, with disastrous consequences, despite continued technological progress in communications and energy.
Beginning life in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries as modest subdivisions for the working class, these much-coveted neighbourhoods are now home to the city's bourgeois-bohemian, but nevertheless retain an authentic atmosphere that evokes a Paris of days gone by.
They were Manchus who ruled China from the mid-17th to early 20th centuries and expanded the country's borders.
The feather's unceremonious fall from a symbol of wealth and elegance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to one of vulgarity--from the hats of fashionable women to the heads of Kewpie dolls--is not only a story of the fickleness of the fashion industry.
Sussex folklore, mostly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was rife with examples of it as a portal to the otherworld.
In Western Europe, the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries were a high tide of heresy.
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries this was a favorite destination for politicians, artists and nobility.
We call that operating system elastic to signal the way that it breaks with the scale economics of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Other colonial powers vied for control of the increasingly-prosperous sugar-producing island, and it came under brief periods of English rule in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
No ruler took more liberties with his religion than Akbar, the greatest of the Mughals, the Muslim dynasty that dominated India between the early 16th and 18th centuries.
Some countries are based on language, some on ethnicity, some on religion: Indonesia is based on the principle, odd in the mouths of nationalists, that whatever was administered as the Dutch East Indies in the 19th and early 20th centuries is now Indonesia.
Case studies, historic maps, photographs, newspapers, government documents, and original objects are used to explore the evolution and development of the once rural island through the centuries, beginning with its early Dutch days.
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Glaciers in Glacier National Park in Montana advanced until the late 18th or early 19th centuries.
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America's initial experiment with imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries yielded these kinds of lessons.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, search put an immense wealth of information at our fingertips.
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, golf was played mostly with long, slender wooden clubs and feather-filled balls.
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Long story short, the indigenous population of Haiti was decimated shortly after the Europeans landed in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
As architects began to look back at the history modernists had discarded, his interest grew in the neoclassicism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
When integration has been encouraged, as with the descendants of the great flood of European immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ethnic distinctions have vanished.
Both the many-shelved carts and the miniature shakers are modelled on those once used in Pullman train cars during the US railway boom of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
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