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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
- It is unknown where the name Kilimanjaro originated, but a number ... why the diminutive kilima is used instead of the proper word for mountain ...13 KB (1,915 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is ... Considered one of the greatest African empires, from the early fifteenth ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- the economic, social, and cultural center of the nation of Guatemala. It ... The area of Guatemala City was the location of Kaminaljuyu, a Mayan ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican culture, noted for having ... Initially established during the Preclassic period, many of the Mayan ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- and Northern Zhou (北周) Dynasties of northern China, and their successor ... also with literature, the arts, and problems of life and death. Yan stressed ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... #039;. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered sailing ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... Rome's history spans more than 2,500 years. It is renowned as ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- eruption that occurred on the Greek island of Thera (known today as Santorini ... in the Sea, the Santorini Volcano: Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis ...26 KB (3,980 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- tribal (often hunter-gatherer) society and Western civilization (broadly interpreted ... In both cases, many of the beliefs and practices particular to these ...28 KB (4,339 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- at 3,212 feet with an uninterrupted drop of 2,648 feet lying in the Canaima ... Angel Falls is located in the Guayana highlands, one of the five topographical ...8 KB (1,292 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- in the Andes mountain range, southeast of the Incan city of Machu Picchu ... One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Western Hemisphere ...22 KB (3,238 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform ... The benefits of food processing include the preservation, distribution ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 06:18, 1 April 2024
- Social Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- was the primary strategist and general of Genghis Khan (Temüjin) and ... When Batu returned to Mongolia for the election of the new Great Khan ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 21:26, 26 February 2023
- sociologist, famous for his development of Process Sociology, or Figurational ... For Elias, society consists of individuals who are in relationship ...13 KB (1,741 words) - 02:41, 16 November 2022
- The Fula or Fulani is an ethnic group residing in many countries of ... The Fulani are the largest nomadic group of people in the world and ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 14:26, 3 December 2023
- Kenya. Established in 1946, it was a project of Mervyn Cowie, a conservationist ... south of the center of Nairobi, the nation's capital and largest ...18 KB (2,633 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
- to benefit society or a specific group of people within that society ... and in some jurisdictions specific types of companies, may be established ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- The Third Council of Constantinople, also known as the Sixth Ecumenical ... for opposing Monothelitism during the reign of Emperor Constans II. ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- one novel, one play, and only a small volume of poems—his intellectual breadth ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic ... Mumford regarded human relationships to be the foundation of a thriving ...29 KB (4,364 words) - 22:20, 25 October 2022
- and Sri Lanka. A sari is a very long strip of unstitched cloth, ranging from ... long decorative borders running the length of the sari, and a one- to three ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 03:28, 23 December 2022
- He was responsible for thrusting awareness of the Gulag on the non-Soviet ... in helping to strip away the legitimacy of the Soviet regime should not ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 2023
- to the Partisan Review and member of the group known as "The ... to receive tenure in the Department of English. A popular professor ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 04:21, 29 October 2022
- The arts of Africa constitute one of the most diverse legacies on ... in Africa have included representations of animals and hunters. From the ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- the Indo-Aryan language. Populations of Dravidian speakers live mainly ... The origins of the Dravidian people and language has been difficult ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- [[Image:Mali historic places.PNG|thumb|250px|Some of the cities in ... state from 1712 to the 1861 invasion of the Fulani jihadist Toucouleur ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- 1955) was an American newspaper baron, owner of the Chicago Tribune, and popularly ... A leading opponent of United States entry into World War II and of ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ... Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- that live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Prior to the ... The study of their culture by anthropologists and linguists would ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
- The Sherpa are an ethnic group from the most mountainous region of ... westerners. This has aided in the formation of many organizations to help ...16 KB (2,467 words) - 14:10, 27 January 2023
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... the entire peninsula. Following a series of insurrections, its territory ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a province of the People's ... both Shaanxi and the neighboring province of Shanxi should be spelled "Shanxi ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- in all the ancient civilizations of the world, particularly in ... Stelae have provided invaluable evidence to archaeologists of the ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by ... Beginning with the family, human life is one of interdependence and sharing ...31 KB (4,695 words) - 19:52, 8 November 2022
- and Fruma Zachs referred to an obituary of Marrash published in an 1897 ... Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analyzed ...35 KB (4,995 words) - 17:16, 29 November 2023
- a marked mathematician and a loyal statesman of his native France. As did Marquis ... Bougainville saw human rights as the property of all. All people ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- History is a word of multiple meanings, all related to the past. When ... The term history comes from the Greek historia ( ἱστορία ...33 KB (4,990 words) - 23:36, 20 April 2021
- Having spent part of his childhood with a family of white ranchers ... American expansion while preaching messages of clean living, an honest life ...9 KB (1,467 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Wade-Giles: Liu Pang), was the first Emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty (漢朝 ... replaced the harsh Legalist administration of the Qin with a Confucian system ...17 KB (2,890 words) - 20:34, 31 December 2021
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... Ancient Western philosophy is generally divided into three periods ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- merchandizing area, marketplace, or street of shops where goods and services ... important trade routes. The constant flow of foreign and exotic goods, along ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- Comedy, together with tragedy was one of two principal dramatic forms ... The Old Comedy, dating from the establishment of democracy by Kleisthenes ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 19:24, 26 July 2023
- pilgrimage site in the Kapilavastu district of Nepal, near the Indian border ... east of the Kapilavastu. Legend states the Buddha lived there until ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- , Eng: Mound or Tell of the Dead) was one of the most prominent cities ... the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river. It was ...37 KB (5,691 words) - 16:48, 25 October 2023
- North Africa—located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis across from the ... Originally a settlement of Phoenician colonists, Carthage grew into ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- A number written in decimal notation involves the use of one or more ... apparent when compared with the system of using Roman numerals. The decimal ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against ... Described as an international bill of rights for women, it came into ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- John Chrysostom (349– ca. 407 C.E.) was the archbishop of Constantinople ... Catholic Church as a saint and a Doctor of the Church. Churches of the ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- 26, 363), was a Roman Emperor (361–363) of the Constantinian dynasty. ... attribute the Philosopher during the period of his life and of those of his ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 21:10, 4 October 2022
- ) is the goddess of learning, knowledge, and the arts including music ... In modern Hinduism, Sarasvati is one of the three goddesses (along ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- Andalusia, located in the southern portion of Spain, is one of the ... Andalusia lies to the south of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha ...14 KB (2,046 words) - 19:54, 26 July 2023
- pdf Iqbal and Goethe] Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India ... scholarly works on politics, economics, history, philosophy and religion ...34 KB (5,166 words) - 17:56, 10 November 2022
- that is designed to convert the energy of the wind into more useful forms ... == History == [[Image:Heron's Windwheel.jpg|thumb|left|170px| ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- Tītânes) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary ... the Titans in the Titanomachy ('War of the Titans'). The Titans ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the ... The City of Rocks is an extraordinary granite encirclement of rock ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. His 1835, Minute on Education ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- To appreciate the value and the richness of the Korean Sirhak, one ... Therefore Yu Hyông-wôn, Song-ho, Yi Ik and the thinkers of the Northern ...16 KB (2,572 words) - 09:49, 26 January 2023
- India. He is best known as the founder of the Arya Samaj "Society ... who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda advocated ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. The Hui form the third ... dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle ... Human history and archaeology show that a basic urge to express emotion ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- as a civil servant. Frustrated with the lack of change, he took up his pen ... was not immediately felt. His depiction of socioeconomic conditions in ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 20:28, 23 June 2020
- in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. This is believed to be first of at least three great empires that ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 23:55, 6 December 2022
- The Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Italian ... The sea's western coast runs the length of Italy, while the eastern ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular ... dependence on the seasonal availability of food and allowed travel over ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 15:04, 27 April 2023
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... priest and missionary and founding member of the Society. Xavier, however ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People ... The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- family known as the Liu clan. The history of this dynasty divides ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 00:55, 28 January 2022
- a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the fundamental principles ... to return to the "fundamentals" of Biblical faith, and who stressed ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral ... replacing it for practical reasons, the use of the abacus continues to be ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- most famous and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. He was ... academic institution in the history of western civilization. Many intellectuals ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- , tr: Bolshaya chistka) is the name given to campaigns of political ... officially used to denote the prosecution of people recognized as counter ...32 KB (4,761 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the ... were usually portrayed as implacable enemies of the Israelites. Their most ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- ungulate, Vicugna pacos (syn. Lama pacos), of the camel family (Camelidae ... Alpacas are not used as beasts of burden, but mainly are valued for ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 08:21, 23 July 2023
- sister kin," Totemism is an aspect of religious belief centered upon ... This form of religious activity is most commonly found within tribal ...20 KB (3,178 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng ... ) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built ...14 KB (2,322 words) - 07:41, 4 January 2024
- The theology of the Death of God, also known as Radical Theology, ... For Nietzsche, the supposed death of the Christian concept of God ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the "Old City," ... Akbar's reign saw the most extensive building of the walled city ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:07, 3 May 2023
- debate about the nature, limits, and causes of reason have been important ... cognition show that animals are capable of some types of on a lower level ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Civilization and founder ... Pizarro had been appointed governor of Peru before the country was ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- longing, or storm and impulse) is the name of a movement in German literature ... to have provided the ideological basis of Sturm und Drang, and Johann ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- Thoreau believed nature to be an expression of God and a symbolic reflection ... by embedding his ideas in the context of descriptive narrative prose ...27 KB (3,979 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2024
- ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the ... Yunnan has earned fame for the natural beauty of its setting from ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... establish and define the modern theory of socialism, societal problems ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- which argues for the equal rights of all living beings. Næss called ... and Christianity's Saint Francis of Assisi, whose views include ...30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
- considered the foremost intellectual leader of China during the first two ... writings influenced an entire generation of Chinese young people. Liang ...24 KB (3,503 words) - 22:24, 25 October 2022
- Hermitage") is considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures ... above Bulguksa, the grotto overlooks the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and rests ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
- An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- northern Sudan. While the ancient kingdoms of Nubia had changing boundaries ... Nubia is the homeland of Africa's earliest black civilization ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- The Republic of Bolivia (or Bulibiya in the Quechua language; Wuliwya ... enough silver from Bolivia to build a bridge of silver from South America to ...29 KB (4,244 words) - 23:38, 20 March 2024
- ), formally Emperor Wen of (Cao) Wei (曹魏文帝), courtesy name ... Unlike Cao Cao, he concentrated most of his efforts on his home country ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 19:30, 25 November 2023
- from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland—"Ashkenaz ... Although in the eleventh century they comprised only three percent ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People ... first century. Blessed with an abundance of water, Jiangxi is the rice ...21 KB (3,089 words) - 20:39, 3 April 2024
- ) was a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern ... refers to the middle and lower levels of the bureaucracy. The nomenklatura ...21 KB (2,829 words) - 18:54, 31 May 2023
- quot;) is a province on the southern coast of the People's Republic ... Guangdong, located remote from the centers of power in Chinese civilization ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... First, it expresses a passion for the ideal of unity and harmony. Analysis ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- E.) was a prominent general during the fall of the Qin Dynasty ( 秦朝; Ch ... Xiang's heroism on the battlefield and his death at the hands ...27 KB (4,419 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- independently in both the official Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial ... It was at this early stage in China's long history that the concept ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 November 2022
- Environmental ethics is a branch of applied ethics and a part of environmental ... ethics often contains criticisms of man's abusive or exploitative ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 19:01, 13 February 2024
- The cuisine of India is one of the world's most diverse cuisines ... India’s unique blend of cuisines evolved through large-scale cultural ...28 KB (4,219 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- organizations and understanding the impact of different factors in the workplace. The purpose of the original experiments was to study the effect of ...19 KB (2,835 words) - 15:03, 25 January 2023
- that seeks to portray common values of the ordinary individual, as ... was an attempt to create a perfect illusion of reality through detailed sets ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- century as a humanitarian and advocate of peace. Schweitzer received ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- as Sinmiyangyo (Korean: 신미양요 ,Western Disturbance of the Year ... Korea had maintained a relationship of tribute with China. In exchange ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- The unicorn, a legendary creature usually depicted with the body of ... thumb|right|300px| Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398 C.E.), the founder of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ... military treatise that outlined the use of Chinese military technology ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... During the course of the revolution, the church was nationalized with ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- name Nuestra Señora de La Paz (“Our Lady of Peace”), is the administrative ... southeast of Lake Titicaca, the city lies in a deep, broad canyon ...25 KB (3,650 words) - 05:31, 4 March 2023
- Tahiti is the largest island of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago ... level (Mount Orohena). The island consists of two roughly round areas centered ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- who contributed to the development of ethnography and anthropology ... Germany, into a prosperous bourgeois family of merchants. He studied at different ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest ... Ánkyra. Ankara also serves as the capital of the Province of Ankara. ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan), refers to a ritual drink of importance ... qualities. In the Avesta scripture of Zoroastrianism, Haoma has an ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- society was not based on market principles of exchange but rather on relationships ... Polanyi, chemist and philosopher. The son of a prominent member of a Hungarian ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:19, 5 October 2022
- as Classical Yoga or simply Yoga) is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools ... concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- Babylonia, named for its capital city of Babylon, was an ancient state ... ruler Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem and took the Israelites ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... refers to the province's location east of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... cities formed in locations where a number of people were gathered to live ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South Dakota. He became one ... not civil rights, should be the basis of the United States government ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- province, and the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, was one ... the second century B.C.E., around the fall of Gojoseon, an earlier kingdom ...29 KB (4,387 words) - 08:36, 19 December 2022
- (c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10 ... His political rival, Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, used the Christological ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... 1500), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice. Inspired by the new ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily ... The earliest use of the term "Uyghur" (Weihu), during the ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
- de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean ... presents an analysis of the history of western civilization showing direct ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 20:52, 9 February 2024
- is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America, on the Caribbean ... nation in 1981. Belize is a member of Caribbean Community (CARICOM ...24 KB (3,475 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the ... The exact meaning of "Murabit" (from which Almoravid is ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- An island or isle is a tract of land that is completely surrounded ... There are two main types of islands: continental islands and oceanic ...19 KB (2,807 words) - 19:43, 7 February 2023
- text in three languages, telling the story of King Darius' conquests ... The document most crucial in the deciphering of a previously lost script. It ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- [[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ... to the romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals ...20 KB (2,817 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom ... Within his own community, the Oba is symbolic of a long cultural and ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...40 KB (5,976 words) - 22:28, 13 November 2022
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Paralleling the various practices of animal sacrifice and of religious ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... in 1783. Some Crimean Tatars were accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- than socialism globally. Given the defeats of the 1917–1923 European communist ... theory opposes Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution and the ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 18:00, 8 December 2022
- together with Confucius, is considered one of the two great moral teachers ... Mozi founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- Images of the Madonna and Madonna and Child are among the central ... Madonna, if used to describe a work of art, rather than a single figure ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
