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- , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... Communists founded the People’s Republic of China, Soong was elected the ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... oldest and largest archaeological sites in China. The site became famous as ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- years searching for early human fossils in China. He is best known for his ... with First Nations people, learning one of their languages. He also tried ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 08:39, 28 January 2024
- 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
- - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... a major role in facilitating trade between China and Central Asia. They were ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- 1900) in Haicheng County, Fengtian province of China – October 14, 2001 ... In the X’ian Incident of December 1936, Zhang kidnapped Chiang Kai ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of ... (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- founded the dynasty, leading the remnants of the Liao Dynasty to Central ... The Khitan people rose from among the northern nomadic tribes of China ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan and northern Guangdong ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- ) are an ethnic group indigenous to China and the largest single ethnic ... The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 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
- Autonomous Region—a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic ... contact with Muslim merchants. The presence of the Hui ethnic group, with ...15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
- Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary of 1892. Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures ... in Gangwashi, Beijing in 1922. With the help of Reverend Robert Kenneth Evans ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
- ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... among the Jurchens, and began a process of sinicization which ultimately ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- and Szechuan) is a province in western China. It borders quite a few different ... Sichuan, the home of ancient civilizations and ethnic groups, sits ...21 KB (2,859 words) - 14:31, 27 January 2023
- Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand ... Sima Qian’s style of writing was easy to read, full of humor and ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- and government official from Sichuan, China. Guo Moruo studied at Sixth Higher School and the Medical School of ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 19:48, 12 July 2023
- and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... given during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China. It is home to a number of ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- Some leading Korea scholars omit mention of the Three Gojoseon kingdoms ... The myth of Dangun with legend following presents Gojoseon (고조선 ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government ... * Languages of China ==Notes== ==Bibliography== ===Earlier publications=== ...23 KB (3,462 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- affairs, particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, ... Andrew Carnegie, like other leading internationalists of his day, ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
- and scholars for his broad understanding of both Chinese classics, and ... During China's Cultural Revolution, led by Mao Zedong, Qian experienced ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), is a province of ... Jilin has played an integral part in both the history of China and ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... == History of Imperial Examinations == [[Image:Palastexamen-SongDynastie ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- [[Image:Medieval writing desk.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of a scribe ... with some modification for various languages of China, Japanese, and Korean. ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- the greatest of China's Legalist philosophers. Along with Li ... work is collected in the 55 chapters of Han Feizi, which is also important ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- The Takla Makan (also Taklamakan or Taklimakan) is China's largest ... The constantly shifting sands and extreme weather conditions of the ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- ; 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
- ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People ... Jiangxi had served as a main trade route in ancient and Medieval China ...21 KB (3,089 words) - 20:39, 3 April 2024
- ) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), pen name of Zhou Shuren ( t=周樹人|s ... ) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) was one of the major Chinese ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- Yak is the common name for a stocky, ox-like bovine, Bos grunniens ... are important to the society and economies of local people in the high elevation ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:03, 22 May 2023
- A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- The Secret of the Golden Flower ("Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi" ... “The Secret of the Golden Flower” is an esoteric guide to Daoist ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with ... Hominoidea (order Primates). Members of the Hominidae family, which ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- 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
- During the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea, the royal courts ... Based on the civil service examinations of imperial China, the gwageo ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 06:03, 27 July 2023
- Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s. Some of the bitterest fighting of World ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 15:10, 27 April 2023
- famed for his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian and Vedantic learning ... Kumarajiva is mostly remembered for the prolific translation of Buddhist ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand formed by eolian ... Some coastal areas have one or more sets of dunes running parallel ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province of the People's ... refers to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...23 KB (3,285 words) - 13:15, 27 January 2023
- ; also romanized as Nei Mongol) is a Mongol autonomous region of the ... The official languages of Inner Mongolia are Standard Mandarin and ...33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
- quot;) is a province on the southern coast of the People's Republic ... cational/languages/asia.htm]Languages of China. oclc.org. Retrieved ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... was already rich and essential in the period of antiquity called the pre-Chin ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands ... The future of the MARC formats is a matter of some debate in the worldwide ...10 KB (1,427 words) - 04:45, 5 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- southern Manchuria (present-day northeast China), southern Russian Maritime ... the second century B.C.E., around the fall of Gojoseon, an earlier kingdom ...29 KB (4,387 words) - 08:36, 19 December 2022
- poet. Along with the other nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Sappho's ... What fragments do remain show glimpses of her genius, as well as giving ...13 KB (2,038 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- A printing press is a mechanical device to print many copies of text ... technologies had been developed in ancient China and Korea a few hundred years ...16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
- The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the ... network, and Spanish troops overran the city of Jolo and built a walled garrison ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 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
- until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted ... Most accurate sources put the total deaths during the fifteen years ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. He was ... Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order ... Advantages of sorted lists include: *one can easily find the first ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. ... space agencies. However, with the launch of the privately funded SpaceShipOne ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- "Samuel Robert Ramsey, The Languages of China (Princeton University ... *Ramsey, Samuel Robert. The Languages of China. Princeton University ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- generally based in present day Mongolia and China. From the third century B ... Huangdi (r. 221 - 206 B.C.E.), who unified China under the Qin, built the ...37 KB (5,668 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Grammar is the set of rules that allow a speaker to form an intelligible ... (grammatikḕ téchnē), which means "art of letters," from ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- 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
- Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... approximately two million and were one of the most formidable tribes ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- 210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from ... Having unified China, he and his prime minister Lǐ Sī passed a series ...27 KB (4,481 words) - 23:18, 3 November 2023
- whether in seed or ground forms, is a staple of many cuisines, with particular ... are allowed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature), this ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (light brown) vs. other ... by a common language family (the Bantu languages) and in many cases common ...25 KB (3,899 words) - 07:30, 20 September 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
- 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
- ancient kingdom established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's ... Balhae occupied southern parts of Manchuria (Northeast China) and ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 05:52, 26 August 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
- Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting ... Mayotte is located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa. There are more than ... Roses are members of the family Rosaceae, which is one of the largest ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside ... In each area, overseas Chinese have retained their languages and cultural ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- ) is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China ... on the island. The People's Republic of China government claims Hainan ...25 KB (3,616 words) - 16:53, 21 January 2024
- – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ... world circulated in vernacular European languages. The fables, which today ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Chopsticks are a pair of small even-length tapered sticks used as ... The widespread use in Asian restaurants of disposable chopsticks made ...24 KB (3,847 words) - 17:19, 10 December 2023
- ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... * Languages of China * Laos Memorial * List of ethnic groups in Vietnam ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern ... the Dutch East Indies and India, as well as China and the Middle East. Although ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- the type of school providing secondary education|gymnasium (school) ... Gym, a shortened form of gymnasium, refers to facilities intended ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- inspired novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... worldwide. An thought provoking aspect of his literary legacy is that ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history ... China ( t=中國|s=中国|hp=Zhōngguó|tp=Jhongguó ) is a cultural ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... The Republic of Palau consists of eight principal islands and more ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- volume Latin dictionary in the University Library of Graz.]] and other information; or a list of words in one language with ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- 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
- ) was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Armies of the ... The Long March began the ascent to power of Mao Zedong, whose leadership ...32 KB (4,903 words) - 07:52, 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
- ) 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
- Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae ... The Panthera genus comprises about half of the seven extant species ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- is C10H16O. It is found in the bark and wood of the camphor laurel tree and ... called it kapur, "chalk" because of its white color. ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- and translator who traveled on foot from China to India in the early Tang ... Xuanzang’s detailed account of his travels, Journey to the West ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... universal access to and the understanding of law serves an important role ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom ... to climate change and to defeat at the hands of Judith, a legendary Jewish Queen. ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- ) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of ... and the editing, revising, and collating of them was organized under official ...31 KB (4,609 words) - 00:37, 3 May 2023
- The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea ... defined as Melanesia. With a land area of 452,860 square kilometers, ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... may take precedence over the legibility of the letters. Well-crafted calligraphy ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... Different terms for karst topography exist in other languages—for ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh ( t=水滸傳|s=水浒传|p=Shuǐhǔ ... ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... at 50 percent in 2001. About 42 percent of the East Timorese live below ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Xīyóu-jì; Wade-Giles: Hsiyu-chi) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels ... The novel tells the entertaining story of the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the ... both a science and an art. The aesthetics of any given map will always be ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, body of water, or other physical obstacle ... The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 20:15, 11 March 2024
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... to 1975 brought Vietnam to the attention of the world. That war has been ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the most populous ... from the United Kingdom after decades of colonial rule. Nigeria re-achieved ...37 KB (5,342 words) - 16:58, 5 June 2023
- usually using a printing press or other kind of printing apparatus. It is often ... In photography, the process of making a picture on photosensitive ...36 KB (5,772 words) - 18:43, 29 April 2023
- (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name ... mind, to produce a dream-like work of art that explored truth that ...16 KB (2,513 words) - 06:10, 18 November 2022
- tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing ... countries, the first mechanical means of pulling a plow used steam-power ...30 KB (5,003 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- , earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... 1970s, Pol Pot became the prime minister of "Democratic Kampuchea ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... The geological process and study of the movement, collision and division ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. The dynasty was founded ... civilization—equal to or surpassing that of the Han Dynasty—as well as ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China ... com/show_country.asp?name=CN Languages of China] Ethnologue: Languages ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- to Western intellectuals. His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also ... Ishikawa Prefecture, the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki (he ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- all are independent. Arabs form the majority of the populations of Algeria ... designation birthed during the days of the British Empire, and encompasses ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- — is the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná ... widest estuary in the world. It forms part of the border between Argentina ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos) was a tower built in the third ... Great, it was home to a significant number of Greeks and Jews. It was renowned ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive ... However, such societies generally occur in times of societal stress ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... North Korea and South Korea. The borders of Korea have fluctuated throughout ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵 ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 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
- 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
- The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma ... Kyō; Korean: Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong) is one of the most popular and influential ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 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
- for his contribution to the phenomenology of religious consciousness and ... Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, Otto ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 17:41, 22 December 2022
- Slang is a set of highly informal words and expressions that are not ... The origins of slang are usually found in the desire of those members ...15 KB (2,298 words) - 22:49, 29 January 2023
- Dutch) chartered by the States-General of the Netherlands to expand trade ... its possessions and the debt being taken over by the government of ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae ... The leopard is the most widely distributed of the big cats, being ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- extant species within this group. It is one of the best known examples of ... long lived due to a beneficial combination of disease-resistant characteristics ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally ... Onjo of Baekje, the son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, founded ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- 2004) presided as the twelfth Prime Minister of the Republic of India. ... He led one of the most important administrations in India's modern ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:a cup of chai.JPG|thumbnail|190px|right|A cup of masala chai.]] is merely the generic word for tea in much of the world, but for many English ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- radio and the Internet. The mission of the BBC is to inform, educate ... Its first transmission was on November 14th of that year. ...29 KB (4,446 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle ... musical expression. In the ancient cultures of China, Africa, Greece, the ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors ... The allure of the Hwarang warrior derives from the sense of a righteous ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
- Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan ... Niger was an important economic crossroad, and the empires of Songhai ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
- ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- Aceh (pronounced AH-chay) is one of the provinces of Indonesia and ... the Acehnese practice Islam, while the rest of the archipelago tends to blend ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 07:32, 14 June 2023
- 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
- quot;) are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ... The country consists of twenty-nine atolls and five isolated islands ...23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon ... west from the capital Ulaanbaatar. The Orkhon Valley was the site ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- Incense is a material composed of aromatic organic materials that ... Incense is available in various forms and degrees of processing. Depending ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- 580-643), courtesy name Xuancheng (玄成), formally Duke Wenzhen ... selflessness, courage, attitude, and life of attendance. Upon the death ...33 KB (5,278 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2023
- In Japan, manga are widely read by people of all ages, and include ... that license and reprint manga in other languages. The largest overseas markets ...39 KB (5,688 words) - 21:37, 11 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- antiquary, and a successful organizer of scientific inquiry. Peiresc’s ... Peiresc’s interests covered every aspect of scholarship and science ...16 KB (2,441 words) - 23:35, 14 November 2022
- Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation ... The site of ancient port cities and a possession of several empires ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- Nepal in the west, Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and east ... highest peak, sits in the northwestern part of the state on the boundary with ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... to his followers. It was later taken to China by the monk Bodhidharma, ...37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of ... Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a Web browser ...31 KB (4,531 words) - 13:58, 20 May 2023
- who, during the 1930s, led a campaign of agricultural science, now known ... Lysenko was the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, a peasant family ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 17:45, 2 May 2023
- Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...33 KB (5,048 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- or key) is most often said to be the study of criteria for the evaluation ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... and nineteenth centuries as well as a base of British economic exploitation ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and ... The central plot of the epic traces the journeys of the bardic hero ...26 KB (4,103 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...35 KB (5,280 words) - 23:09, 26 April 2024
- | language = English (includes content in other languages) ... in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 07:45, 27 February 2023
- or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate ... to all human activities. In the field of positive psychology, theorists ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital of numerous dynasties and governments ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- also is used to refer to the fruit of this tree, which is characterized ... The fruit, which advances the pomegranate's individual purpose ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... people. They have been at the forefront of the cultural clash that came ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- Sukarno (June 6, 1901 – June 21, 1970) was the first President of ... The son of a Javanese school teacher and his Balinese wife from Buleleng ...25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- language did not have a writing system of its own. Chinese characters ... Kanji includes new characters created in Japan, and modifications ...32 KB (4,676 words) - 02:41, 5 October 2022
- 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
- Luanda (formerly spelled Loanda) is the capital and largest city of ... in 1844, and by 1850, Luanda had become one of the most developed cities in ...24 KB (3,367 words) - 10:35, 9 March 2023
- The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... the "Black Pope" after the color of the Jesuit habit) has occasionally ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- Honshū (Japan), the Kuril Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost ... Traditional Ainu dress was a robe spun from the bark of the elm tree ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 2023
- Papyrus (The plural of papyrus is papyri) is an early form of thick ... The study of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, and ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 07:37, 18 November 2022
- The Kingdom of Swaziland (Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini), or the Kingdom ... Swaziland consists mostly of high plateaus and mountains with an array ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- are an archipelago in Indonesia, and part of the larger Malay Archipelago ... The Maluku Islands are located on the Australian Plate, lying east ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the ... Since the script was conceived and popularized by the followers of ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- The political integration of India established a united nation for ... India's leaders faced the prospect of inheriting a nation fragmented ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- The Caribbean Sea is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part ... coastline has many gulfs and bays: the Gulf of Venezuela, Gulf of Darien, ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- sliding past one another. Varying the amount of alloying elements and their ... The maximum solubility of carbon in iron is 1.7 percent by weight ...29 KB (4,547 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- ) is a form of Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century ... Beijing opera features four main types of performers; performing troupes ...41 KB (6,269 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- musician and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... in style and technique, Pound rejected much of the modern world, especially ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- The Territory of Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia ... It maintains about 1,500 residents who live in a number of "settlement ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- 6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore (now ... Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Jamaica. Little ...33 KB (5,257 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ... or The Fables of Bidpai/Pilpai (in various European languages) ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- or oscillate. The most common applications of fans are for creature comfort ... fan), winnowing (such as separating chaff of cereal grains), removing dust ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- islands are included, it covers six percent of Earth's total surface ... the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal, located at ... at an average elevation of 1,247 m (4,100 feet). The town serves as ...23 KB (3,408 words) - 02:28, 5 October 2022
- Asia in the North and West to Myanmar and China Proper in the East. Recent ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- communications, and economic center of Burundi. Bujumbura is the capital ... situated on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, is Burundi ...18 KB (2,590 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- country in Central Africa, roughly the size of France. It is bordered by Chad ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
- who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January ... action at the global level. How many of Ban's strong declarations ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- quot;The naughty children"; German Caricature of 1849.]] has been largely rejected in favor of other disciplinary methods ...28 KB (4,287 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- and is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story." ... established in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan in memory of Akutagawa, is Japan’s most ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... and barren soil located on the western flank of the Sahara Desert. Mauritania ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
- New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- , (pronounced Tsoo Shee) popularly known in China as the West Dowager Empress ... During the last decades of the Qing Dynasty, the government was split ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating ... Tofu originated in ancient China, but little else is known about the ...37 KB (5,817 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
- Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is one of ... After a protracted war for independence, then decades of socialist ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 03:07, 12 July 2023
- ) is the capital, chief seaport, and largest city of Algeria, the ... in Algiers. The city fell under the rule of the Ottoman Empire in 1518 ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- ) is a range of traditional medical practices originating in China ... TCM theory asserts that processes of the human body are interrelated ...53 KB (7,935 words) - 04:54, 1 May 2023
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... the strongest candidate for highest point of the Australia/Oceania continent. ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- a database that contains descriptive records of books, periodical articles ... researchers to find descriptive records of relevant information sources ...27 KB (3,849 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- I on December 31, 1600, with the intention of favoring trade privileges in ... A close study of the history of the company shows how the British ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked nation ... The original inhabitants of southern Africa were the Bushmen (San ...20 KB (2,852 words) - 19:53, 20 November 2023
- ) is an ancient Indo-European classical language of South Asia, a ... The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of ...71 KB (10,080 words) - 03:16, 23 December 2022
- Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... s-Gravenhage) is the Netherlands' seat of government (regeringszetel ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus—to adjure) is the practice ... The concept of possession by evil spirits and the practice of exorcism ...20 KB (3,223 words) - 23:55, 24 March 2024
- most recognizable structure on the campus of Kyoto University]] It is the second oldest university and one of the leading research universities ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Located on the west ... years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after Sri Lanka ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ... The art and architecture of the Tamil people encompass some of the ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics and culture ... Malraux studied Oriental languages at the École des Langues Orientales ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- is the English term for a general variety of spicy dishes, usually associated ... curry recipe in Britain appeared in The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy ...30 KB (4,736 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- آباد Ilāhābād) is the English name of a city in the north Indian ... "-ābād" being Persian for "place of." ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated ... One of the most isolated nations in the world, Bhutan is often described ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
- Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... rocky soil limits agriculture, and much of the nation's funds come ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- Waka (和歌), or Yamato uta, is a genre of Japanese poetry. Waka ... Traditionally, waka has had no concept of rhyme (certain arrangements ...23 KB (3,429 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- Hawaii and Australia. With the exception of tiny Vatican City, Tuvalu has ... Tuvalu consists of four reef islands and five true atolls. Its small ...20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
- central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic origin in the western ... Malwa has experienced wave after wave of empires and dynasties ruling ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern ... Remains of one of the oldest known hominids, dated to over one million ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 16,000 feet, (4,900 meters ... Songtsän Gampo united numerous tribes of the region. From 1578, leadership ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- the southwest and the People's Republic of China to the southeast. girls," a reference to the Manas of folklore unifying 40 tribes ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- primarily in the newly independent states of Central Asia. Large Korean ... A separate ethnic Korean community lives on the island of Sakhalin ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
