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The Great Wheel, aka the Multiverse AD&D 2nd edition: TSR: 1994-1998 Interconnects campaigns via pathways and portals but also by providing opportunities for characters from different planes to meet in Heaven, Hell, and in the other planes on the Great Wheel. Planet Eris: Sword and Sorcery: The planet Eris OD&D, Generic The Scribes of Sparn ...
In medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortunae is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna ( Greek equivalent: Tyche ) who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel: some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls.
City-state 717–1521 AD Kingdom of Cusco: Cusco Kingdom 1200–1438 AD Ichma Kingdom: Pachacamac Kingdom 1100–1469 AD Inca Empire: Cusco Empire 1438–1533/72 AD Iroquois: Onondaga Tribal Confederacy 1450–1660 AD Maya: Various Kingdom City States 2000 BC–900AD Mississippian culture: various 800–1600 AD Moche: Moche-Trujillo. United ...
The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or with that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
Little is known about how Romans adapted foreign place names to Latin form, but there is evidence of the practices of Bible translators.They reworked some names into Latin or Greek shapes; in one version, Yerushalem (tentative reconstruction of a more ancient Hebrew version of the name) becomes Hierosolyma, doubtlessly influenced by Greek ἱερος (hieros), "holy".
In 1606, the newly founded city of Mannheim in Germany was the first Renaissance city laid out on the grid plan. Later came the New Town in Edinburgh and almost the entire city centre of Glasgow, and many planned communities and cities in Australia, Canada and the United States. Derry, constructed in 1613–1618, was the first planned city in ...
(Reuters) - U.S. homebuilder sentiment rose to a seven-month high in November and expectations for sales in the next six months surged to the highest in about two-and-a-half years after a ...
This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names.This list includes: Places involved in the history (and beliefs) of Canaanite religion, Abrahamic religion and Hebrew culture and the (pre-Modern or directly associated Modern) Hebrew (and intelligible Canaanite) names given to them.