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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
- Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...17 KB (2,582 words) - 07:16, 15 April 2024
- )—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
- 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
- was a German archaeologist and linguist, one of the founders of the modern ... Saxony (now in Germany), the third son of Karl Peter Lepsius and Friedericke ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... Civilization refers to a complex human society, in which people live ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- a German ethnologist and archaeologist, one of the leading experts on prehistoric ... life does, noting three phases in the life of a culture. He also recognized ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- who did significant work on Native Americans of the Southeastern and Northwestern ... his fieldwork on the Northwestern coast of the United States. At that ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic ... It continues to be a region suffering one of the worst humanitarian disasters ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 22:17, 25 January 2024
- The Euphrates River is the western of the two great rivers that define ... They form a great river system, an alluvial salt marsh ecoregion of ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- (high plains) in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, the western ... The lake is composed of two nearly separate sub-basins that are connected ...14 KB (2,293 words) - 05:37, 4 March 2023
- 'De-jung') meaning "Source of happiness," is a mythical ... scriptures also speak of a closely-related land called 'Olmolungring ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 09:52, 6 October 2022
- was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- , located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, is one of the most prestigious universities ... Today Keio Gijuku Daigaku includes undergraduate faculties of Business ...12 KB (1,563 words) - 17:19, 5 October 2022
- as the United States, it crosses the borders of 11 nations. While much of the ... than it is today. Over 30,000 petroglyphs of river animals such as crocodiles ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2022
- arb) is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and ... The coasts of the peninsula are, on the west the Red Sea and the Gulf ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- the period after the legendary arrival of Gija in northern (or in the ... Koreans point to Gija as a co-founder of Korean civilization along ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
- event by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are ... Pictograms are still in use as the main medium of written communication ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- , "Island of Atlas") is a mythical island nation first mentioned ... Plato's account of Atlantis, believed to be the first, is found ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic ... 147° east meridian. The northernmost extent of the Indian Ocean is approximately ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- and diplomat who is best known for his study of ancient Mayan culture. In 1885 ... paid little attention to the cultural legacy of the peoples whose land was ...16 KB (2,447 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- people around 900 B.C.E. The Chavín civilization is thought to be the earliest ... A large part of the Chavin population was based on an agricultural ...15 KB (2,387 words) - 00:46, 5 December 2023
- Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family that dates ... The flute's pitch and various aspects of its timbre are very flexible ...19 KB (2,947 words) - 17:48, 28 March 2024
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- Mountain) is located in Sichuan province, Western China. Mount Emei is often ... Qing dynasties are located in the vicinity of the mountaintop. The Leshan ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- The site's oldest graves absence of bronze artifacts led archaeologists ... The dispute continues, although the majority of archaeologists have accepted ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- scientist, astronomer, and mathematician of the Ming Dynasty. Born in Shanghai ... with Matteo Ricci he translated several Western texts, including the first ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Emperor Wen of Sui (541 C.E. – 604 C.E.), known as Wen·di, personal ... Emperor Wen of Sui was definitely one of the most public leaders in ...8 KB (1,229 words) - 12:57, 31 January 2022
- Scottish historian, a co-founder and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ... as well as Farsi, drew on a wide range of Indian sources. Aspects of ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- [[Image:British Museum from NE.JPG|thumb|300 px|Main entrance of the ... The British Museum in London, England, is one of the world's ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- located in the extreme northeastern corner of the present-day state of Louisiana, ... from the Mississippi River. It is a complex array of earthen mounds ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 17:40, 9 November 2023
- – c. 500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during which the ... The literary legacy, however, does take us back to one of very earliest ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- The Norte Chico civilization (also Caral or Caral-Supe civilization ... The Norte Chico civilization, one of the oldest and most sophisticated ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 02:50, 16 November 2022
- and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars of comparative religion ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- mountain range, forming a continuous chain of highland along the western ... feet (6,960 m) above sea level. The summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean ...15 KB (2,126 words) - 19:59, 26 July 2023
- "Angkor Wat" is the modern name of the temple; its original name ... and capital city, Angkor Wat was the epitome of the high classical style of ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 01:44, 9 January 2023
- The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom ... Ethiopian culture today has its roots in this civilization. The decline ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- soldier, geologist and the second director of United States Geological Survey ... an American soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He earned ...11 KB (1,704 words) - 01:23, 10 February 2023
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... The Kingdom of Gandhara lasted from around the sixth century B.C.E ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- and Toshisuke in his youth, was one of the Meiji Era’s most famous ... movement. In 1863, he was chosen to be one of the “Chōshū Five” who ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 06:30, 11 March 2024
- σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ... was dramatist who examined the relation of the gods to the lives of mortal ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties hold the royal remains ... , patterned in an arc-shape at the foot of the Jundu Mountains south ...24 KB (3,553 words) - 16:44, 12 February 2024
- [[Image:Mexico.Tab.OlmecHead.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monument 1, ... people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, roughly ...35 KB (5,268 words) - 00:32, 18 November 2022
- missionary who introduced Christianity and Western ideas to the Chinese Empire ... were not barbaric. He also disseminated Western ideas to a Korean emissary ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud, the ancient Assyrian ... 5, 1817 in Paris, France, into a family of Huguenot descent. His father ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- A hierarchical Sinocentric model of international relations, dominated ... place at the center with varying degrees of success. The Sinocentric tribute ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens ... The name of Athens in Ancient Greek was Athḗnai (Ἀθῆναι ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- Bayankala Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through ... The Yellow River is called the "Mother River of China" and ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- Factories are a hallmark of industrialized society. They have changed ... ==History of the factory== ===China=== Many have believed that ancient ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 23:24, 26 June 2022
- The Haida are an indigenous people of the west coast of North America ... The Haida in Canada created the Council of the Haida nation gaining ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- ) 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- | 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- China is one of the countries which had the most advanced mathematics ... to constantly point south by the use of differential gears without ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, has earned ... Founded in the fourth century B.C.E., Anuradhapura served as of the ...16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit ...26 KB (4,063 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern ... Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the eldest of seven ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- The Fall of Rome or the Fall of the Roman Empire refers to the defeat ... Some European nations saw themselves as so indebted to the legacy ...28 KB (4,463 words) - 00:34, 25 March 2024
- ), are an ethnic group that dominated much of Manchuria (Northeast ... Dynasty in 907 but fell to the Jin Dynasty of the Jurchen in 1125. Following ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- at its capital in Constantinople. Much of this territory had first fallen ... There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period ...39 KB (5,978 words) - 19:13, 24 November 2023
- Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: es|San Isidro or es|San Isidoro ... ) (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- quot;many islands") is a large grouping of over one thousand islands scattered ... Island. A Polynesian island group outside of this great triangle is Tuvalu ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- pot. Qianlong reign in the Qing dynasty of China (c. 1700)]] archeology outside the United States) is one of the four sub-fields of anthropology ...28 KB (4,112 words) - 06:15, 12 August 2023
