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  • its zenith, often referred to as the Golden Age of India. Chandragupta had ... of Buddhism's ascendancy in northern India, as well as Hinduism and Jainism. ...
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  • in the establishment and development of India's atomic energy program ... and operatic music was firmly founded by age 16 (1925). He was a frequent ...
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  • continues with the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age India; the golden age of Classical ... revival, with events like the "All-India Sanskrit Festival" ...
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  • found, leading to the belief that the Bronze Age settlers probably had been ... Early Stone Age. The Lower Palaeolithic constitutes the earliest subdivision ...
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  • Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon ... The maximum solubility of carbon in iron is 1.7 percent by weight ...
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  • ancient Egypt and temples of ancient southern India. Today, granite ... periods; much of it is of Precambrian age. The origin of granite is ...
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  • River, a tributary of the Ganges River. India's 2001 census reported ... of the poorest and most violent regions of India. In spite of Bodh Gaya's ...
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  • countries"), or regions, in ancient India. The core of the kingdom ... from circa 684 B.C.E. to 424 B.C.E. Two of India's major religions, Jainism ...
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  • role in promoting Buddhism in northern India. Evidence of the importance ... Protohistoric Iron Age Excavations in Anuradhapura have uncovered information ...
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  • developed in the areas of the earlier bronze age "walled-town states" ... kingdom also appears as a prosperous bronze age civilization, with a complex ...
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  • Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... coastal voyage, helped enhance trade between India and Rome. ...
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  • fertile plains, access to the sea, and rich iron deposits, Gaya had an economy ... as a princess from the Ayodhya region in India, although many believe that ...
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  • was a British author and poet, born in India, who was best known in his ... Kipling was born in Bombay, India; the house in which he was born ...
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  • and semi-historical material about ancient India. Thus it is impossible to ... In every third world age (Dvapara), Vishnu, in the person of Vyasa ...
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  • present in relatively minor amounts include iron oxides and iron-titanium oxides ... cinders are often red, colored by oxidized iron from weathered iron-rich minerals ...
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  • At the age of 10, Jang was separated from his mother, a gwan-gi, ... arrows would tilt a board filled with small iron balls; a ball would roll down ...
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  • who traveled on foot from China to India in the early Tang period ... for the study of medieval Central Asia and India. The classic Chinese novel ...
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  • most common metal in use, trailing only iron, aluminum, and copper in annual ... The production of zinc metal was very common in ancient India. Many ...
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  • The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is ... theory. This theory posits that North India was originally inhabited ...
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  • in the Middle East, North Africa, India and (formerly) in southern Europe. ... present in large numbers, produce an iron deficiency anemia by voraciously ...
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  • year pilgrimage to all the holy places in India. Following this, he adopted ... now in the Satara District of Maharashtra, India, to a lower-caste tailor ...
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  • Rose at her confirmation in 1597. At a young age, she gave her life to prayer ... woman died on August 25, 1617, at the age of 31. Not until after her ...
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  • region also boasts uranium, gold, titanium, iron deposits, and diamonds. ... region often date prior to the Early Stone Age (about 2,500,000 to 150,000 ...
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  • in small pieces or as sawdust in cast iron retorts, is extensively practiced ... Historically, charcoal was used in great quantities for smelting iron ...
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  • 23, 1937) was a Bengali from undivided India, who contributed to the foundations ... but also for the changes they brought to India and the Western attitude ...
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  • involved in the trade network between India and the Mediterranean. ... system that linked the Roman Empire and India. This change took place around ...
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  • The surviving form of the Rigveda is based on an early Iron Age (c ... The text is organized in 10 books, known as Mandalas, of varying age ...
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  • to be very adept at the family business of iron manufacturing, and acquired ... Secretary), Lord Birkenhead (Secretary for India) and Arthur Balfour (Lord ...
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  • writing talent was such that, "at the age eighteen, he celebrated the ... the Maharaja of Kassimbazarto to study in India for four years. When approved ...
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  • kingdom of Yamkhad during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1800-1600 B.C.E.) and ... trade routes and mediated the trade from India, the Tigris-Euphrates regions ...
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  • Migrations including Turkic expansion. The Age of Exploration and European ... 2001, ISBN 0195137779). In the Late Bronze Age, the Aegean and Anatolia were ...
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  • in the Himalayas. The least populous state in India, url=http://www ... Following the arrival of the British Raj in neighboring India, Sikkim ...
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  • is an educational organization founded in India in 1937 that offers instruction ... In April 1950, after the Partition of India, they moved to Mount Abu ...
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  • The last glacial period of the current ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. ... mudstones, volcanic sediments, and banded iron formations. Carbonate rocks ...
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  • was the first ruler of ancient Bharata (India), after the famed Mahabharata ... When James Princep (1799-1840), a British civil servant in India who ...
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  • periods, the so-called "old stone age" and "new stone ... by prehistorians, such as Neanderthal or Iron Age are modern, arbitrary ...
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  • Hindu family in the town of Puttaparthi, India. Biographers have claimed ... music, dance, and drama from a young age. When he was 13, he was stung ...
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  • fashioned terraces. These are part of an age-old but highly sophisticated ... for merchandise farther afield, mainly in India, and using waterways to get ...
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  • Palace, an enormous, modular glass and iron structure—the first of its ... ;1842 : The Mine Act banned women and children from working in coal ...
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  • By the Iron Age, human sacrifice was becoming less common throughout ... today, with reports from the 2000s from India, Sub-Saharan Africa, and ...
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  • These creatures do not have hemoglobin (iron-containing protein), which ... other species occur along the east coast of India: Tachypleus gigas and Carcinoscorpius ...
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  • Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic): تیمور - Tēmōr ... Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, even approaching Kashgar ...
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  • jpg|right|thumb|300px|A 1623 Dutch East India Company [[Bond (finance) ... the eighteenth century, particularly China, India, and the Middle East, or ...
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  • ) are a large corpus of texts originating in ancient India. They are ... 1500 to 500 B.C.E., spanning the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Flood sums ...
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  • 1399–1947 C.E.) was a kingdom of southern India founded in 1399 by Yaduraya ... Under the Mysore Kingdom, the fine arts flourished in southern India ...
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  • well as objects used for worship. Later on iron and other metals, precious ... The first sculptures in India date back to the Indus Valley civilization ...
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  • by the combined forces of the British East India Company, the Nizam of Hyderabad ... nature of Hindu-Muslim relations in India. He was the only eighteenth ...
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  • prior to and during the rise of Buddhism in India. They represent a transition ... as the most predominant power in ancient India, annexing several of the ...
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  • , a region in west-central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic ... into an important power in western India by around 500 B.C.E., when ...
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  • since 3,900 B.C.E. The Nordic Bronze Age (1,800–600 B.C.E.) in Denmark ... represented the peak of the Danish Viking age. King Knud's North Sea ...
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  • Magellan's successful expedition during the Age of Discovery ... went on his first voyage on the sea at the age of 25, in 1505, when he was ...
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  • August 16, 2018) was the Prime Minister of India, briefly in 1996, and from ... his native language, Hindi. His vision of India was that of an ancient civilization ...
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  • The earliest settlers were probably Tamils from southern India. Today ... divorce rates in the world. Though the legal age for marriage is 18, most young ...
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  • In 1874, at age 24, Kitchener was assigned by the Palestine Exploration ... Following this, Kitchener was made Commander-in-Chief in India (1902–1909 ...
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  • of the countries south of China, east of India and north of Australia. South ... and Islam, the only region outside India in which Hinduism spread. ...
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  • The province is located along the India-China sea trade route. By ... Mining produces petroleum, liquefied natural gas, coal, gold, iron ...
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  • originally overlain by basalt. Copper and iron workings are present in the ... (called "chalk turquoise"); high iron levels mean greens and yellows ...
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  • examples of welding dating to the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Europe ... have made possible the welding of cast iron, nickel, aluminium, copper ...
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  • in the Laddakh region of Jammu and Kashmir (India), in parts of the Kunlun ... large lakes that existed during the last ice age about 12,000 years ago. Lake ...
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  • and the unprofessional use of cement and iron as a base. The cement caused ... India began a tradition of carving the image of Buddha in stone, holy ...
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  • wood with mineral sources like coal and iron, freed mechanical power from ... the textile industries, the development of iron-making techniques and the ...
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  • The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... ), commonly known as India, is a country in South Asia. The name India ...
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  • Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna, India, son of the ninth Sikh Guru ... dispute. After his tour of eastern parts of India ended, he asked his family ...
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  • of Israel. Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics ... From a very young age, Meir believed strongly in the need for Jewish ...
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  • The prospect of serving as an officer in India or elsewhere in the ... At age 14 he suffered from seriously poor health and had to be withdrawn ...
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  • influences. The iconographic art of India entered Tibet along with ... from other countries such as China, Nepal and India. Tibetan visual ...
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  • the Indo-European cosmologies (from Vedic India, through Rome and into the ... #039;s strength and a pair of special iron gloves to lift the hammer. ...
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  • Ireland from June 20, 1837, and Empress of India from January 1, 1877, until ... to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent ...
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  • foreign countries in the southwest, especially India. Sichuan's ... possesses 13.3 percent of the reserves of iron, 93 percent of the reserves ...
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  • one of the twenty-two official languages of India, and an ancestor of the modern ... in use in a few traditional institutions in India, and there are some attempts ...
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  • South America, New Zealand, and India, it has spread generously ... it is relatively high in minerals such as iron, phosphorus, and zinc. ...
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  • ancient world. Suddenly, during the early Iron Age, in around 1200 B.C.E ... one. The alphabets of the Middle East and India are also thought to derive ...
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  • calcium, as well as being a good source of iron and potassium. Figs also are ... a species of banyan fig native to Nepal and India, southwest China, and Indochina ...
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  • The first phase saw the domination of Hindu culture imported from ... annual trading fleets from China and India, and also traders from further ...
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  • first one, Sikandar, died from pneumonia at age seven in 1914, and the second ... in negotiating the Indus Water Treaty with India in 1960. In 1961, Bhutto ...
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  • disputed Kashmir region, which is claimed by India. The name Afghānistān ... that accompany the southwest monsoon in India travel up the Kabul valley ...
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  • 0.7 percent of the human body's mass: iron, copper, zinc, selenium, molybdenum ... in Eastern medicine, both in China and India. In these medical traditions ...
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  • In the Iron Age (c. tenth to sixth centuries B.C.E.), Assyrian cuneiform ... 1835, when Henry Rawlinson, a British East India Company army officer, visited ...
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  • 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role in the ... Sardār), which means Chief in many languages of India. ...
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  • married Captain Henry Sherwood and moved to India, she converted to evangelical ... The Sherwoods returned to England after a decade in India and, building ...
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  • in the cultures that are in modern day India and the surrounding area ... , as each arm resembles a crampon or angle-iron (Winkelmaßkreuz) ...
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  • and has been used as an ornamental stone since the Iron Age. ... like siderite, calcite, and aragonite. Iron sulfide minerals such as pyrite ...
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  • the Qur'an is Alexander). In northeast India and modern-day Pakistan he ... areas, a period known as the Hellenistic Age. Alexander himself lived on ...
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  • The Mitanni may have originated from India. Certainly, they shared ... An India origin has been argued based on linguistic analysis as well ...
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  • latter are often relatively massive Bronze Age or earlier structures which ... For example, Dún Aonghasa, an all-stone Iron Age Irish hill fort on Inishmore ...
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  • Tibet but is a state set up and occupied by India. The Tibet Autonomous Region ... China, on the west by the Kashmir Region of India and on the south by Nepal ...
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  • and Switzerland measured the Moon's age at 4,527 ± 10 million years ... than depletion of volatile elements and iron. Observations by the technique ...
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  • is a linguistic term, not an ethnic one), iron-using agriculturists and herdsmen ... van Riebeeck on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. For most of the ...
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  • lower, most recently during the last ice age. New Guinea shares many families ... natural resources including bauxite, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, gold, silver ...
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  • to protect the ships of the British East India Company. It was after this ... a captain employed by the British East India Company, Kidd attacked a ...
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  • in Swaziland. Evidence of agriculture and iron use dates from about the fourth ... of special benefits moved on to China and India with the removal of import ...
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  • practiced today by the Parsi community of India. Zoroaster is generally ... archaeological designation for a Bronze Age culture of Central Asia, dated ...
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  • on to future generations. During a later age, the Roman legacy was used ... works: the Dark Ages, the Brythonic Age, the Age of Tyrants, or the ...
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  • of the New World. In 1609, the Dutch East India Company heard about Hudson ... Wisconsin Glaciation, the most recent ice age, resulted in a marine incursion ...
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  • Iran (Tabriz), Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Turkey, Northern Africa ... culture and art, and dates back to the Bronze Age. The earliest surviving ...
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  • of 1,000,000 troops. Over 100,000 tons of iron per year were produced in ... of seagoing ships was forbidden; the iron industry gradually declined. ...
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  • abortion at eight weeks gestational age (six weeks after fertilization ... those with systemic diseases, and those over age 35. Other causes can be infection ...
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  • power. It was a product of the European age of discovery, which began ... Bay Company and the British East India Company chartered by Henry ...
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  • during the early decades of the European Age of Exploration, following ... claims to have gone to the sea at the age of 10. In 1470, the Columbus ...
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  • , opaque, and even metallic and lustrous (iron disulfide). In many cases ... * iron Fe2+ and Fe 3+ * magnesium Mg2+ * potassium K+ ...
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