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Strange things happened at Bethel. In Genesis 12:8, Abraham had pitched his tent to the east of Bethel and built an altar of stones. Later, in verse 13:3, he returned to Bethel and to the sacred stone altar. Here, the town is portrayed as already being called Bethel.

Yet in chapter 28, Abraham's grandson Jacob slept in a certain place and dreamed of a ladder going up to heaven then he named that place Bethel, but before then it had been called Luz. Here, the town is portrayed as being called Luz, until Jacob chose a new name, Bethel.

Jacob used a stone for a pillow and after waking put it on a pillar and poured oil on it. It has long been known that there was a West Semitic deity named Bethel, associated with the veneration of sacred stones*, thus this and previous passages point to the city being named after the god Bethel. When it first acquired this name will probably never be known.

Bethel can also mean 'House of God', but this derivation does not fit well with either the Abraham narrative, since in this story the town already existed and must have been named as such by its Canaanite inhabitants, nor the Jacob narrative, as there is nothing in the dream that leads to "House of God". Even this less probable alternative does not lead to the date of a change of name for the town.

*Footnote: The Jewish Encyclopedia tells us that the worship of sacred stones constituted one of the most general and ancient forms of religion; but among no other people was this worship so important as among the Semites. Sacred stones are mentioned with great frequency in the Old Testament, with at least ten of these references associated with Jacob.

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the iron age started at about 1500 B.C and ended at about 2000 B.C

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I don't believe so. Spartan warriors may have thought it demeaning to wear make-up. I might be wrong though.

No and the spartan women were forbidden to wear make-up, perfume and jewellery.

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Bronze

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Some Latin tribes residing in Italy decided that they would build their permanent home on the current site of Rome, and it slowly grew into the SuperPower that it was.

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It was the only metal.

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the invention of the saddle allowed a man to shoot an arrow from horseback and the chariot lost it's advantage to horsed mounted calvary.

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He was born Gaius Octavius. After his adoption by Julius Caesar, following the naming conventions for adoptees, he became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianius. Although historians use the name Octavian (Octavianus in English) for the period prior to his becoming the first Roman emperor, he never used this name. The renamed himself Imperator Caesar Divi Filius (Winner in Battle, Son of the Divine Caesar). Imperator did not mean emperor. It was a title the Roman troops shouted for their victorious commander. He made a big deal of the fact that he was the adoptive son and main heir of Caesar and used this as the basis for his bid for power. Caesar was deified after his death. Hence his renaming himself Son of the Divine Caesar. In 27 BC the senate bestowed the title of Augustus on him (the Venerable One) . So his full name became Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus. The title Augustus had religious connotations, rather than political ones. Although historians call Augustus and the subsequent Roman rulers emperors. the Romans did not use this title. They used the title of princeps (First Citizen).

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Type your answer here... red at the top black at the bottom and green lettering in the middle also white backround behind the green

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Roman period comes after iron age

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IM SO DUMB COMMENT IF U like cheese like me =D :D :

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Ansa

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The pharoah Khephra.

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The Bronze Age did not take place in "One Place" rather many scattered regions around the world during 2300 B.C to somewhere around 700 B.C

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Most probably Iberians or other non-Indoeuropean people who inhabited great parts of Europe including Ireland, Britain, Sardinia and Sicily between cca 3500 and 1000 BC if not even much earlier as age of several Irish sites suggests. Partial evidence for this could be found in vivid use of triple spiral (called triskele in Ireland) until this day under name of agurro by the Basques who claim to be direct descendants of Iberians and the only surviving original European nation. Related to the topic is a theory saying that the Basques along with the Amazigh (Berbers) of North Africa are the only nations descending from the Cromagnon man solely, whereas the rest of world´s population carries genes of mixed Cromagnon and Neanderthal origin. Systematic DNA research in this field would certainly bring us closer to the truth.

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Aluminum is too reactive to be found in nature. It wasn't purified until the 1800's and then it was so hard to get pure that it was valued as a precious metal much like silver and gold. Only within the last 100 years has aluminum been able to be produced in mass at a low cost.

Iron on the other hand is abundant and not nearly as reactive. Indeed people have been able to refine iron for thousands of years.

Iron is lower on the reactivity series than aluminum and can be displaced from its ore by heating it and adding carbon. Aluminium needs electricity to extract it in big amounts so it was only after electricity was discovered that we could get lots aluminum.

Iron ore is found in Europe and is also quite straight forward to extract the metal using rudimentary processes. The use of metals were generally first used in Europe.

Aluminium is found mostly outside Europe and the extraction process is very complex and requires huge amounts of heat energy (usually supplied using electricity) that early man just couldn't make at the temperatures and timescales required.

In the 1800's aluminum was more expensive then gold was because of the difficulties in obtaining it. It exists in nature as a compound and is not found in a natural state. The earlies metals such as Iron can be found in lumps of meteorites and deposits, usually heavily oxidized, but easily smelted in fires.

because it's coolbecause it's cool

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The Adena got most of their clothing from their environment around them. They wore rags and animal skins. The Adena made the great serpent mound so personally I think they were very creative.

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Stones, bones... anything they could find, basically animal skin to tie a spear for example together. they dug holes to make traps and put stiks over it to trap a momoth forexample.

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Bronze is made by chemicals that are formed and engineered to make one.
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive.

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