Ancient and Historic

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Ancient adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

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Historic and ancient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Historic" instead an adjective "Ancient".

Nearby Word: anciently

Historic adjective - Having great meaning or lasting effect.

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Ancient and historic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancient" instead an adjective "Historic".

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic seemingly based Equestria's three historic pony tribes on the militarist ancient Spartan State, the inept Rennaissance-age Central European medieval mercantile republics, and decadent Dark Age Western-European feudal monarchies respectively.

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Again, it isn't much of a historic representation of the period, what with those pesky Templars orchestrating the entire thing in yet another of their Ancient Conspiracy schemes.

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However, they went extinct in prehistoric (parts of Asia, Northern Europe, North America) or historic times (everywhere else they used to live, like ancient Greece and the rest of Europe and Asia) and now they're relegated to sub-Saharan Africa and the Gir Forest in India.

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