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  • Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...
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  • )—a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 B.C ... The discovery of Mohenjo-daro led to tremendous excitement in the ...
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  • Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...
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  • as Mehrgahr, Merhgarh, or Merhgahr) is one of the most important Neolithic ... to life before and during the first stages of the Indus Valley civilization ...
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  • anthropologist and writer. A founder of American anthropology, he is ... While Morgan's unilinear model, particularly of the development ...
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  • was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...
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  • Enlightenment broadly means the realization or the acquisition of ... mysticism, and in the Sufi tradition of Islam. In its secular use, ...
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  • and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and ...
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  • involve movements that are a combination of difficult feats of balance ... in ancient China, Egypt, and the Minoan civilization. Tightrope walkers were ...
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  • in Moscow in the 1830s. Drawing on the works of Greek patristics, the poet ... The doctrines of Khomyakov, Kireevsky, Konstantin Aksakov (1817-60 ...
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  • Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations ... archaeology inevitably includes an element of imaginative reconstruction ...
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  • accepted to refer to the northernmost region of the African continent, stretching ... *Western Sahara * * The inclusion of Western Sahara in the U.N. list ...
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  • political theorist, statesman, and leader of the Meiji Enlightenment in ... During his youth, Kato was a liberal advocate of constitutional government ...
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  • the nineteenth century with the translation of the Rosetta Stone. Yet interest ... this culture, including the great Pyramids of Giza, reveal not only their ...
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  • possibly the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan culture. Minoan ... excavations which brought to light part of the magazines in the west wing ...
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  • historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... Toynbee approached history not from the perspective that takes the ...
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  • term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...
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  • played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...
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  • The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...
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  • The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving ... and technological development, and no sign of slavery or exploitation of ...
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