People in the middle ages were not developed. ... They realized that the Earth is not flat, the Sun doesn't go round the Earth and step by step they started alienating from the "dark ages". ... That was something unbelievable in the middle ages moreover the middle ages" people would burn the person who would dare to thing that something like that is possible. ... Some say that the golden age means something in the past but according to me the golden age is to come. ...

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From his writings, "Changing Times Bring on a Moral Order,"" one can conclude that Greece was submerged in a dark "Iron Age- where there was, at this time, little or no justice at all. ... Hesiod saw the history of humankind as one of progressive degeneration "from an ideal golden age in the faraway past to the present harsh age of "black iron."" ... This time of hardships increased the need for a moral order to emerge Greece out of this "Iron Age."" ... By merely establishing a moral order, Greece was on its way out of the lawless Dark Age. ...

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At the age of four he lost his father, leaving him in the hands of his mother and uncle. ... [Boardman, 121] Under the foot steps of his great uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian showed his prominence at an early age. ... This was known as the Secular Games, to filter the Roman people of their past sins and provide full religious initiation of the new age. ... This, in turn, led to a great flourishing of the arts, and the Augustan Age was the Golden Age of Roman literature. ... He brought Rome from constant civil war into the golden age of Rome, also known as Pax Romana. ...

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Although his reign spans the period known as "the golden age of Latin literature", the building of roads during this period seems to indicate preoccupations with trade as well as the territorial integrity of the provinces, rather than the expansion of creative or scientific boundaries. ...

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The Roman empire was a giant of an empire with a massive army. It had 207 years of peace, and impressive monuments only comparable to it's glory. Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy's Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much o...

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The legend of the "Rape of Lucretia" tells the story of how the son of King Tarquin raped a high standing woman, Lucretia, to demonstrate his power. Lucretia, shamed, killed herself and her family, led by Junius Brutus expelled King Tarquin. They then created what is called the Roman Republic. Roman...

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Gaius Octavius, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar, was born in Rome on the 23rd of September, 63 BC (Southern 1). After Julius Caesar's death on the Ides of March in 44 BC, a struggle for power in Rome ensued, even though 18 year old Octavian was the heir. Marc Antony, a good friend of Julius C...

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