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  • 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
  • 1450; r. 1418 - 1450, was the fourth ruler of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea ... King Sejong is one of only two Korean rulers honored with the appellation ...
    12 KB (1,738 words) - 17:29, 6 June 2024
  • 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 (3,470 words) - 18:48, 24 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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