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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... cities formed in locations where a number of people were gathered to live ...
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  • activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South Dakota. He became one ... not civil rights, should be the basis of the United States government ...
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  • (c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10 ... His political rival, Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, used the Christological ...
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  • from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the ... The exact meaning of "Murabit" (from which Almoravid is ...
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  • The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean ... presents an analysis of the history of western civilization showing direct ...
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  • ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily ... The earliest use of the term "Uyghur" (Weihu), during the ...
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  • text in three languages, telling the story of King Darius' conquests ... The document most crucial in the deciphering of a previously lost script. It ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...
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  • [[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ... to the romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals ...
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  • An island or isle is a tract of land that is completely surrounded ... There are two main types of islands: continental islands and oceanic ...
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  • is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...
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  • North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...
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  • The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... in 1783. Some Crimean Tatars were accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Paralleling the various practices of animal sacrifice and of religious ...
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  • around fourth century B.C.E. in the basins of the Liao and Taedong Rivers ... Dynasty, also romanized as Chosŏn. See also: Names of Korea. ...
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