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... early cities desired houses larger and more comfortable than the huts of stone , clay , and reeds wherein they had been living . So they called upon architects to build them palaces . Next , priests insisted that the gods would be ...
... early cities desired houses larger and more comfortable than the huts of stone , clay , and reeds wherein they had been living . So they called upon architects to build them palaces . Next , priests insisted that the gods would be ...
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... early Roman house was built on the Etruscan plan . The domus of a prosperous early Roman bourgeois had about a dozen rooms , ranged around a partly roofed court . There was a square hole in the roof to let in the rain and a cis- tern ...
... early Roman house was built on the Etruscan plan . The domus of a prosperous early Roman bourgeois had about a dozen rooms , ranged around a partly roofed court . There was a square hole in the roof to let in the rain and a cis- tern ...
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... early -I , the Sarmatians overthrew the Scythian empire with their invincible cavalry and set up their own in its place . By +69 , the " year of the four emperors , " the Sarmatians were raiding across the Danube into the Empire ...
... early -I , the Sarmatians overthrew the Scythian empire with their invincible cavalry and set up their own in its place . By +69 , the " year of the four emperors , " the Sarmatians were raiding across the Danube into the Empire ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 1 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 18 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 46 |
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