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  • An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... territory and its people being invaded. Some of these consequences can be beneficial ...
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  • The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571 when a galley ... fought solely between rowing vessels was one of history's most decisive ...
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  • Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest ... among different ethnic groups has been part of the country's history ...
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  • Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... approximately two million and were one of the most formidable tribes ...
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  • statesman who served as the third president of Egypt from October 15, 1970 ... Sadat was a soldier who became a man of peace. Egypt and Israel had ...
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  • al-Quds) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions ... From 1948 until the Six-Day War of 1967, Jerusalem was a divided city ...
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  • as Nakhichevan, is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan bordering Armenia ... Armenian tradition holds that Nakhichevan was founded by Noah, of ...
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  • 200 books and articles in various fields of science. He was well versed ... Razi's portrait adorns the great hall of the Faculty of Medicine in ...
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  • Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...
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  • thumb|300px|A sixteenth-century depiction of Ptolemy.]] Soter, a Macedonian general who became king of Egypt in 305 B.C.E., or other ...
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  • in the seventeenth century. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the ... The Kalmyks are the only inhabitants of Europe whose national religion ...
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  • Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...
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  • Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...
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  • Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...
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  • The Republic of Dagestan (older spelling Daghestan) is a republic ... Situated on the eastern end of the North Caucasus Mountains along ...
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  • take relationship with God in every moment of human life. Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...
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  • 039;s Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...
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  • genetic studies indicate that the ancestors of the Tibetan people diverged ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...
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  • South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...
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