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3 hours ago · In ancient Mesopotamia, they mainly used counter-magic against witchcraft (kišpū [86]), but the law codes also prescribed the death penalty for those found guilty of witchcraft. [85] According to Tzvi Abusch, ancient Mesopotamian ideas about witches and witchcraft shifted over time, and the early stages were "comparable to the archaic shamanistic stage of European witchcraft". [ 87 ]
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1 day ago · In the 4th millenium BC written history arose in Ancient Egypt, [ 1 ] and later in Nubia 's Kush, the Horn of Africa 's Dʿmt, and Ifrikiya 's Carthage. [ 2 ] Between around 3000 BC and 1000 AD, the Bantu expansion swept from north-western Central Africa (modern day Cameroon) across much of sub-Saharan Africa, laying the foundations for states ...
3 hours ago · The Holocaustwas the genocideof European Jewsduring World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germanyand its collaboratorssystematically murdered some six million Jewsacross German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootingsand poison gas in extermination camps ...
3 hours ago · The Seljuk Empire, or the GreatSeljuk Empire, [ 13 ][ a ] was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. [ 16 ][ 17 ] The empire spanned a total area of 3.9 million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles) from Anatolia and the Levant in the west to the Hindu ...
