Search results for "History of Western civilization" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Narodniks was the name for Russian revolutionaries of the 1860s and ... Narodism arose in Russia after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 ...11 KB (1,586 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- site in Pakistan containing the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila ... centre of learning from the sixth century B.C.E."History of Education ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds ... During the Spring and Autumn Period, a complex system of interstate ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- ) are a series of mountain peaks that run along the northwestern portion ... The difficult terrain of the Atlas Mountain Range extends 1,500 miles ...12 KB (1,891 words) - 06:24, 21 August 2023
- existed from 1346 to 1371, and was one of the larger states in Europe ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- | WHS = Archaeological Site of Troy | Image = [[Image:Troy1.jpg|300px|Walls of the excavated city ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere would come under the domination ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- 250px|Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912 ... In general, the term fashion refers to a prevailing mode of expression ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
- Western Africa is the 5 million square mile area located in the westernmost ... Though the terms West Africa and Western Africa are often used interchangeably ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- ) were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a ... The Ostrogoths established a relatively short-lived successor state ...25 KB (3,947 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a study of "sexual perversity," ... , and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg. ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture ... they have adopted their values and standards of behavior. The problem is that ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs that have been ... Much of our understanding of some of the oldest (and long dead) civilizations ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne ... . Homer refers to Ariadne by her Cretan title, the "Lady of the ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' ... In the latter part of the twentieth century opposition to Columbus ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- a background from which the main elements of the composition rise. There are three basic forms of relief sculpture: bas-relief (low-relief ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. ... reached a popular readership. His defense of religious studies as a secular ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
