Search results for "History of Western civilization" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- )—a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 B.C ... The discovery of Mohenjo-daro led to tremendous excitement in the ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 09:51, 21 June 2021
- 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 ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- anthropologist and writer. A founder of American anthropology, he is ... While Morgan's unilinear model, particularly of the development ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- Enlightenment broadly means the realization or the acquisition of ... mysticism, and in the Sufi tradition of Islam. In its secular use, ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- involve movements that are a combination of difficult feats of balance ... in ancient China, Egypt, and the Minoan civilization. Tightrope walkers were ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- in Moscow in the 1830s. Drawing on the works of Greek patristics, the poet ... The doctrines of Khomyakov, Kireevsky, Konstantin Aksakov (1817-60 ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 07:38, 12 March 2024
- Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations ... archaeology inevitably includes an element of imaginative reconstruction ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- accepted to refer to the northernmost region of the African continent, stretching ... *Western Sahara * * The inclusion of Western Sahara in the U.N. list ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 06:36, 16 November 2022
- political theorist, statesman, and leader of the Meiji Enlightenment in ... During his youth, Kato was a liberal advocate of constitutional government ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- the nineteenth century with the translation of the Rosetta Stone. Yet interest ... this culture, including the great Pyramids of Giza, reveal not only their ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- possibly the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan culture. Minoan ... excavations which brought to light part of the magazines in the west wing ...13 KB (2,102 words) - 03:56, 4 March 2023
- historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... Toynbee approached history not from the perspective that takes the ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving ... and technological development, and no sign of slavery or exploitation of ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024