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  • its zenith, often referred to as the Golden Age of India. Chandragupta had ... of Buddhism's ascendancy in northern India, as well as Hinduism and Jainism. ...
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  • in the establishment and development of India's atomic energy program ... and operatic music was firmly founded by age 16 (1925). He was a frequent ...
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  • continues with the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age India; the golden age of Classical ... revival, with events like the "All-India Sanskrit Festival" ...
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  • found, leading to the belief that the Bronze Age settlers probably had been ... Early Stone Age. The Lower Palaeolithic constitutes the earliest subdivision ...
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  • Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon ... The maximum solubility of carbon in iron is 1.7 percent by weight ...
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  • ancient Egypt and temples of ancient southern India. Today, granite ... periods; much of it is of Precambrian age. The origin of granite is ...
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  • River, a tributary of the Ganges River. India's 2001 census reported ... of the poorest and most violent regions of India. In spite of Bodh Gaya's ...
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  • countries"), or regions, in ancient India. The core of the kingdom ... from circa 684 B.C.E. to 424 B.C.E. Two of India's major religions, Jainism ...
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  • role in promoting Buddhism in northern India. Evidence of the importance ... Protohistoric Iron Age Excavations in Anuradhapura have uncovered information ...
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  • developed in the areas of the earlier bronze age "walled-town states" ... kingdom also appears as a prosperous bronze age civilization, with a complex ...
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  • Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... coastal voyage, helped enhance trade between India and Rome. ...
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  • fertile plains, access to the sea, and rich iron deposits, Gaya had an economy ... as a princess from the Ayodhya region in India, although many believe that ...
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  • was a British author and poet, born in India, who was best known in his ... Kipling was born in Bombay, India; the house in which he was born ...
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  • and semi-historical material about ancient India. Thus it is impossible to ... In every third world age (Dvapara), Vishnu, in the person of Vyasa ...
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  • present in relatively minor amounts include iron oxides and iron-titanium oxides ... cinders are often red, colored by oxidized iron from weathered iron-rich minerals ...
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  • At the age of 10, Jang was separated from his mother, a gwan-gi, ... arrows would tilt a board filled with small iron balls; a ball would roll down ...
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  • who traveled on foot from China to India in the early Tang period ... for the study of medieval Central Asia and India. The classic Chinese novel ...
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  • most common metal in use, trailing only iron, aluminum, and copper in annual ... The production of zinc metal was very common in ancient India. Many ...
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  • The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is ... theory. This theory posits that North India was originally inhabited ...
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  • in the Middle East, North Africa, India and (formerly) in southern Europe. ... present in large numbers, produce an iron deficiency anemia by voraciously ...
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  • year pilgrimage to all the holy places in India. Following this, he adopted ... now in the Satara District of Maharashtra, India, to a lower-caste tailor ...
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  • Rose at her confirmation in 1597. At a young age, she gave her life to prayer ... woman died on August 25, 1617, at the age of 31. Not until after her ...
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  • region also boasts uranium, gold, titanium, iron deposits, and diamonds. ... region often date prior to the Early Stone Age (about 2,500,000 to 150,000 ...
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  • in small pieces or as sawdust in cast iron retorts, is extensively practiced ... Historically, charcoal was used in great quantities for smelting iron ...
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  • 23, 1937) was a Bengali from undivided India, who contributed to the foundations ... but also for the changes they brought to India and the Western attitude ...
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  • involved in the trade network between India and the Mediterranean. ... system that linked the Roman Empire and India. This change took place around ...
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  • The surviving form of the Rigveda is based on an early Iron Age (c ... The text is organized in 10 books, known as Mandalas, of varying age ...
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  • to be very adept at the family business of iron manufacturing, and acquired ... Secretary), Lord Birkenhead (Secretary for India) and Arthur Balfour (Lord ...
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  • writing talent was such that, "at the age eighteen, he celebrated the ... the Maharaja of Kassimbazarto to study in India for four years. When approved ...
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  • kingdom of Yamkhad during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1800-1600 B.C.E.) and ... trade routes and mediated the trade from India, the Tigris-Euphrates regions ...
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  • Migrations including Turkic expansion. The Age of Exploration and European ... 2001, ISBN 0195137779). In the Late Bronze Age, the Aegean and Anatolia were ...
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  • in the Himalayas. The least populous state in India, url=http://www ... Following the arrival of the British Raj in neighboring India, Sikkim ...
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  • is an educational organization founded in India in 1937 that offers instruction ... In April 1950, after the Partition of India, they moved to Mount Abu ...
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  • The last glacial period of the current ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. ... mudstones, volcanic sediments, and banded iron formations. Carbonate rocks ...
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  • was the first ruler of ancient Bharata (India), after the famed Mahabharata ... When James Princep (1799-1840), a British civil servant in India who ...
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  • periods, the so-called "old stone age" and "new stone ... by prehistorians, such as Neanderthal or Iron Age are modern, arbitrary ...
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  • Hindu family in the town of Puttaparthi, India. Biographers have claimed ... music, dance, and drama from a young age. When he was 13, he was stung ...
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  • fashioned terraces. These are part of an age-old but highly sophisticated ... for merchandise farther afield, mainly in India, and using waterways to get ...
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  • Palace, an enormous, modular glass and iron structure—the first of its ... ;1842 : The Mine Act banned women and children from working in coal ...
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  • By the Iron Age, human sacrifice was becoming less common throughout ... today, with reports from the 2000s from India, Sub-Saharan Africa, and ...
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  • These creatures do not have hemoglobin (iron-containing protein), which ... other species occur along the east coast of India: Tachypleus gigas and Carcinoscorpius ...
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  • Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic): تیمور - Tēmōr ... Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, even approaching Kashgar ...
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  • jpg|right|thumb|300px|A 1623 Dutch East India Company [[Bond (finance) ... the eighteenth century, particularly China, India, and the Middle East, or ...
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  • ) are a large corpus of texts originating in ancient India. They are ... 1500 to 500 B.C.E., spanning the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Flood sums ...
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  • 1399–1947 C.E.) was a kingdom of southern India founded in 1399 by Yaduraya ... Under the Mysore Kingdom, the fine arts flourished in southern India ...
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  • well as objects used for worship. Later on iron and other metals, precious ... The first sculptures in India date back to the Indus Valley civilization ...
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  • by the combined forces of the British East India Company, the Nizam of Hyderabad ... nature of Hindu-Muslim relations in India. He was the only eighteenth ...
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  • prior to and during the rise of Buddhism in India. They represent a transition ... as the most predominant power in ancient India, annexing several of the ...
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  • , a region in west-central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic ... into an important power in western India by around 500 B.C.E., when ...
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  • since 3,900 B.C.E. The Nordic Bronze Age (1,800–600 B.C.E.) in Denmark ... represented the peak of the Danish Viking age. King Knud's North Sea ...
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