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  • accepted to refer to the northernmost region of the African continent, stretching ... *Western Sahara * * The inclusion of Western Sahara in the U.N. list ...
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  • Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations ... archaeology inevitably includes an element of imaginative reconstruction ...
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  • political theorist, statesman, and leader of the Meiji Enlightenment in ... During his youth, Kato was a liberal advocate of constitutional government ...
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  • the nineteenth century with the translation of the Rosetta Stone. Yet interest ... this culture, including the great Pyramids of Giza, reveal not only their ...
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  • possibly the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan culture. Minoan ... excavations which brought to light part of the magazines in the west wing ...
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  • historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... Toynbee approached history not from the perspective that takes the ...
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  • term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...
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  • played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...
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  • The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...
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  • The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving ... and technological development, and no sign of slavery or exploitation of ...
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  • was a German archaeologist and linguist, one of the founders of the modern ... Saxony (now in Germany), the third son of Karl Peter Lepsius and Friedericke ...
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  • a German ethnologist and archaeologist, one of the leading experts on prehistoric ... life does, noting three phases in the life of a culture. He also recognized ...
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  • 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... Civilization refers to a complex human society, in which people live ...
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  • Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic ... It continues to be a region suffering one of the worst humanitarian disasters ...
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  • who did significant work on Native Americans of the Southeastern and Northwestern ... his fieldwork on the Northwestern coast of the United States. At that ...
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  • The Euphrates River is the western of the two great rivers that define ... They form a great river system, an alluvial salt marsh ecoregion of ...
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  • 'De-jung') meaning "Source of happiness," is a mythical ... scriptures also speak of a closely-related land called 'Olmolungring ...
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  • , located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, is one of the most prestigious universities ... Today Keio Gijuku Daigaku includes undergraduate faculties of Business ...
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  • was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...
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  • as the United States, it crosses the borders of 11 nations. While much of the ... than it is today. Over 30,000 petroglyphs of river animals such as crocodiles ...
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