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The sudden substitution of crema- tion for the neolithic practice of burial indicates a movement of peoples from Central Europe , where the burning of the dead was a very ancient custom.2 Further proof of an immigration from the ...
The sudden substitution of crema- tion for the neolithic practice of burial indicates a movement of peoples from Central Europe , where the burning of the dead was a very ancient custom.2 Further proof of an immigration from the ...
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But their wealth and power of patronage , and their esprit de corps , intensified by the practice of intermarriage , gave them an unchallenged preponderance . The patricians did not indeed dispute the ultimate sovereignty of the people ...
But their wealth and power of patronage , and their esprit de corps , intensified by the practice of intermarriage , gave them an unchallenged preponderance . The patricians did not indeed dispute the ultimate sovereignty of the people ...
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On the one hand they took into their hands the arrangements for the collection of indirect revenue ( which the Romans , in accordance with a common practice of ancient states , farmed out to publicani , or private contractors ) .
On the one hand they took into their hands the arrangements for the collection of indirect revenue ( which the Romans , in accordance with a common practice of ancient states , farmed out to publicani , or private contractors ) .
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