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For French Philosopher Auguste Comte, World History Was Arranged into Three

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For French philosopher Auguste Comte, world history was arranged into three successive stages, theological, metaphysical and scientific, the last stage representing the advances and progress ushered in by the sciences, which he saw as a positive stage. Hence Comte's philosophy's was labeled _________.


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Abu Simbel

An ancient temple complex in southern Egypt, built by Pharaoh Ramesses II, notable for its massive rock-cut sculptures.

Temple

A building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence.

Demotic

Late Egyptian writing.

Rosetta Stone

An ancient Egyptian stone slab bearing inscriptions in three scripts—hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek—that was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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