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  • to the Spanish and remained under Spanish control for forty years. Louisiana ... #A centralization of control of combined political and religious power ...
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  • until 1868, and until the 1800s, the population of Ainu outnumbered the ... possible Russian invasion and took over control of Ezochi. The Shogunate ...
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  • Eritrea and Somalia, and had wrested control of portions of the Ottoman ... to the problems of south Italy's population growth. Fearful of being ...
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  • the modern and ancient capital, has a population of nearly 1.04 million ... C.E., when Philadelphia came under Roman control and joined the Decapolis ...
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  • region could be sent north and east to population centers in North Africa ... encouraged territorial expansion to gain control over the lucrative trade routes. ...
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  • By the mid-1980s, fewer than 40 percent of Conakry's population ... thirteenth centuries. The Mali Empire took control of the region after the ...
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  • well as a number of Hausa states, claimed control over portions of the area. Fulani Empire of Sokoto, which had gained control of much of the Hausa territory ...
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  • developed to meet the needs of a growing population that had reached over 100 ... # Advanced statistical methods of quality control. These methods were ...
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  • each state, regardless of its size and population, or by proportional representation ... of the legislature proportionate to population. On June 14/15, 1787, a ...
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  • land is regarded as arable. Most of the population does not have access to ... " wherein half of the adult male population of some islands became ...
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  • thirty percent of the United States population uses various products that ... that with thirty percent of the U.S. population using DEET, the likely ...
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  • area was known among the native African population as Loanda, the earlier ... turned on each other, fighting for control of Luanda and international ...
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  • of living organisms, whether at the population, community, or ecosystem ... the environment and water resources by population growth. Further demand ...
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  • were brought from Slovenia. The bear population has bred successfully, ... Pyrenees and the Ebro River. The local population of the March was diverse ...
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  • * The entire able-bodied male population of a community, town, or ... militia of some 33 percent of the total population. Article 58.1 of the 1999 ...
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  • the time of forced relocation, their population has increased tenfold since ... this time they suffered a large loss in population due to disease, starvation ...
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  • and colonized by Spain and came under control of the Dutch West India ... quot;) - 111 square miles (288 sq km), population 14,000 at 2006 census. ...
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  • dominate the Muslim world, assume active control of the spice trading network ... Albuquerque intended to dominate the Muslim world, assume active control ...
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  • with more than two-thirds of its population living below the poverty ... and hyenas. Africa's most western population of chimpanzees in found ...
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  • Approximately 8.7 percent of the population of Switzerland (650,700 ... eastern Switzerland) were able to gain control over a vast territory reaching ...
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  • is home to less than 5 percent of the population, yet covers about 60 percent ... and Paraguayan sides have very low population densities; they are virtually ...
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  • quot;). Although the British remained in control during the first half of ... helped keep Malawi under authoritarian control until the 1990s. Increasing ...
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  • About one-half of the population resides on Majuro Atoll (where the ... beginning of World War I, Japan assumed control of the Marshall Islands ...
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  • barrier reef. About two-thirds of the population lives on Koror. North of ... areas to support the size of its population. The nation is vulnerable ...
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  • A 2006 Census Bureau estimate put the population at 66,217,736. Both the ... system and the upper Great Lakes. French control over the area ended in 1763 ...
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  • Mexico and the Philippines. The original population dwindled significantly ... The Marianas came under German control for a brief period in the late ...
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  • becoming a major power in the region, over control of Cambodia, in 1813, which ... in 1826, when, after the British assumed control of part of Burma, it became ...
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  • 25 percent or more of an area's population. In the early twentieth ... A variety of rat control methods have been used throughout human history ...
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  • most densely populated state, with a population density of 320 more people ... by the British. The British remained in control of the Delaware River for ...
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  • by human activity. The resident population of Fernando de Noronha ... home to the world's largest known population of resident dolphins. The ...
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  • in 1905 with the building of the railway. Control passed to the British Colonial ... Lusaka had a population of 1,084,703 in 2000 census, and was considered ...
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  • China's total land area. It had a population of about 24 million as ... especially the Hetao region, alternated in control between Han Chinese agriculturalists ...
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  • and Wyoming combined. Yemen's population is close to 21 million ... but later managed to break the Arabian control of the trade routes by finding ...
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  • in some places, mostly in Haiti, the population pressure has brought about ... wiped out, resistance by the remaining population was for the most part eliminated ...
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  • of the land area and 82 percent of the population. For many years, the Bahamas ... area (589.5 km²) and 82 percent of the population (26,584 out of a total ...
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  • This small territory with a population of less than half a million ... Widespread population resettlements under the Russian Empire, and ...
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  • Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest ... Modern Alexandria is divided into six blocks: Montaza, population ...
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  • also coterminous with. With a municipal population estimated at 7,000,000 ... by the Mongols, it stagnated under Ottoman control, it prospered during the ...
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  • and the Ottomans—battled for the control of Hungary and ultimately ... Suleiman believed that God wanted Islam to control the whole world and sincerely ...
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  • with its remote northern location, small population of less than 20,000 people ... leaves, and twigs. The sanctuary’s population of about 2,000 wood bison ...
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  • gentry, constantly vying for political control. Concerned about the condition ... affairs, keeping power struggles under control. ==Significance of the ...
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  • further economic stimulus to Asmara. The population grew from an estimated ... each administration with sufficient control over its agricultural capacity ...
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  • forces. Nurhaci consistently maintained control of the two Yellow Banners ... Though the bannermen made up only two percent of the population of ...
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  • to profound changes to its landscape, population, and plant and animal life ... ==Disease and population loss== The European and Asian lifestyle included ...
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  • The cultures of the island's population show links with groups ... to leave, decimating the island's population. Nearly all the residents ...
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  • African Americans. It currently has a population of more than 3.5 million. ... in Africa and, later, extend their control into the interior. ...
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  • 6,700 sq miles (17,000 square km) and a population estimated in 2005 as slightly ... rejected a South African request for control of this small, landlocked ...
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  • near extinction by the 1930s, when its population was less than 100 individuals ... when he took it outdoors he was unable to control it. He found the Burchell ...
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  • is thought to be descended from an early population of domestic sheep brought ... made it possible for a single shepherd to control a large flock of sheep. ...
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  • the BSAC was given the right to control all mineral resources found ... By 1900 the BSAC gained control of an area of South Central Africa ...
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  • This trend rapidly decreased the lion population, and threatened extinction ... could be enclosed and placed under the control of the Tanzanian government ...
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  • attempt to maintain a viable population for species preservation ... organisms) to create a viable population size. The cloning of an ...
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  • produced by invaders or cells under control of a virus ("non-self ... abundance in the gut mucosa, within a population of lymphocytes known as ...
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  • Sweden's population doubled during the hundred years period from ... has had a higher percentage of its population move to North America. ...
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  • and reproduction positions them to help control populations of ants and ... 1993; Walker 1991). Echidnas also help to control populations of prey species ...
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  • a city of suffering for the indigenous population, while for Europeans, it ... the following year. Within 30 years its population exceeded 150,000, making ...
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  • early into their rule after they gained control over the vast lands of the ... Calcutta, showing his relations with the Muslim population. ...
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  • Approximately 80 percent of the Dzungar population, between 500,000 and 800 ... and their Manchu patrons for dominion and control over the Mongolian people ...
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  • only behind Vatican City. It has a population of 32,410 in a total land ... in 1338. It has remained under Grimaldi control except for a brief period ...
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  • In 1926, he returned to China and took control of a Kuomintang military ... In 1926, he returned to China and took control of a Kuomintang military ...
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  • British and American armies seeking to control the two important cities ... of dollars in damage due to the high population in the coastal areas. Autumns ...
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  • or some other crash in the rodent population. During these outbreaks ... plague, bringing death to a large segment of the population. ...
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  • member nations; the League was unable to control Italy or to protect Ethiopia. ... of their attempt to terrorize the local population. Furthermore, the Italians ...
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  • Ocean. Seychelles has the smallest population of any nation in Africa ... to rule, dominating politics by its control of every aspect of the society ...
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  • Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội, Hán Tự: 河内), estimated population ... from 2001 until 2003. Hanoi's population is constantly growing, ...
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  • economic infrastructure, or the skills of its population. soared. Mozambique's Portuguese population at the time of independence ...
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  • The Islands, with a population of 22,000 (2005 census), have one of ... Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became ...
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  • albeit often elite, sector of the population. The introduction of public ... an equal educational opportunity to the population of children in each school ...
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  • and one in Ontario have a combined population of about 8,000. Despite ... as a hunter-gatherer society in control of the river. Algonquin communities ...
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  • and Nunavut). It has the smallest population of any province or territory ... to create a separate territory to better control the situation. In 1901, ...
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  • The control of a colony mainly consists in taking care of the state ... The population of the honeybee colony varies according to the seasons ...
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  • that about 15 to 20 percent of the white population may have been Loyalists ... virtually all of the territory and population of the 13 states, and demanded ...
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  • Congo Association (later Zaire) for control of the Congo River basin ... French control over the area was made official by the Berlin Conference ...
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  • of Oyster Bay, where there is a large population of foreign expatriates. ... had subdued the entire coast, retaining control until the early eighteenth ...
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  • all the states of China under its control in 221 B.C.E., thereby establishing ... C.E. to 220 C.E.), Zhejiang was under the control of the unified Chinese state ...
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  • After several centuries of Roman control, Milan was declared the capital ... Milan, along with the Veneto, to Austrian control in 1815. ...
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  • In the nineteenth century, the area's population grew as Casablanca ... damage to the town. The French then took control of Casablanca. This effectively ...
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  • allowed a much greater portion of the population time for the kind of education ... who may not exert power over others but do control their own destiny through ...
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  • The Faeroese have, over the years, taken control of most matters except defense ... 1035 and remained under that nation's control of the islands continued ...
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  • seventeenth century. It passed from German control at the start of World War ... miles (56,785 km²), with an average population density of 253 people per ...
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  • have been hunted for sport. They help in control of various pests, such as ... giant ibis, for example, has a population perhaps of less than 250 ...
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  • religion of its subjects free from external control. Effectively, religion ... faith's churches, and fearing loss of control of the region, Philip II ...
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  • is the smallest country, in terms of population, in continental Africa ... flawed. The president exerts almost total control over the political system ...
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  • first truly urban center. It soon had a population of 200,000 (representing ... imperial government to impose nationwide control at the expense of local ...
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  • which resulted in a huge segment of the population of Cambodia perishing in ... as the Cercle Marxiste, which had taken control of the Khmer Student's ...
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  • data. He calculated projected population growth. He first coined ... income was £6 13s 4d per annum, with a population of six million, meaning ...
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  • In November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized control from the provisional ... the situation of the remaining urban population, weakening the economy ...
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  • ethnic Germans formed a majority of the population. The Sudeten Germans had ... Sudetenland, with its substantial German population led by the Nazi politician ...
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  • intelligent behavior. Examples include control systems; automated planning ... in modern industrial and consumer product control systems. ...
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  • utility, and telegraph, while also winning control of over 40 percent of the ... about 56 percent of Guatemala's population below the poverty line ...
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  • themselves and the burgeoning urban population, and only surplus grain ... where the overwhelming majority of the population were workers. However, ...
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  • had solidified his Kurdish family's control over the Middle East. After ... By 1200 Saladin's brother, Al-Adil, succeeded in securing control ...
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  • at the top of the food chain, they help control the population of rodents ... American crocodile has an estimated wild population of 500 to 1200 in South ...
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  • * Population control * Prescription drugs (prices) * Procreative beneficence ... * Ebrahim, A. F. M. 1989. Abortion, Birth Control and Surrogate Parenting ...
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  • also gave the merchants almost complete control of the governments of the ... famines, exacerbated by the rapid population growth of the earlier era ...
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  • However, diseases ravaged their population, and when the French and ... Maritimes. The Eastern Abenaki's population was concentrated in portions ...
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  • the two civilizations which often vied for control over its strategic location ... the Templars. The Republic of Venice took control in 1489 after the death ...
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  • is Manitoba's largest city with a population of 633,451 making it the ... Population and dwelling counts, for census metropolitan areas (ALL ...
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  • containing a concentrated and segregated population of a despised minority ... defined urban minority area whose population lives differently from ...
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  • but these states do not exercise extensive control over the region. ... the Thar, a varied and thriving wildlife population calls the desert their ...
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