Search results for "Western world" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic ... (formerly Malagasy Republic), the world's fourth largest island; ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- launched a vituperative critique of the Western academic system and its ... throughout his career, was that the Western perception of "the ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- the highest spiritual truths of Sufism to Western audiences of his day. He ... Among the existing religions of the world Islam is the only one which ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 07:53, 25 June 2024
- participated extensively in conquests in Western China and Central Asia. East also served to remind Europeans that a world existed beyond their horizons ...10 KB (1,537 words) - 15:55, 5 December 2022
- begin another academy for young women. The Western Female Institute was established ... soon become the majority in the teaching world. She spent the majority of ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- by nearly every civilization around the world. The most common variety ... forms in various locations around the world. Many ancient flutes were ...19 KB (2,947 words) - 17:48, 28 March 2024
- . These are among the stoutest trees in the world. A specimen in Limpopo Province ... * Adansonia digitata – African Baobab (western, northeastern, central ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 05:47, 15 June 2023
- insufficient to defeat the Soviets. The Western powers were busy with the ... At times the Western Allies, the Central Powers, and other foreign ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- that originated in late eighteenth-century Western Europe. In part, Romanticism ... the setting of the old, pre-Christian world. The mountain symbolizes ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- on what was happening simultaneously in Western Europe. On one hand, many ... the indigenous Celts and Illyrians); the Western and the Eastern Roman Empires ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- Tanganyika, the second deepest lake in the world, and Lake Victoria, the second ... divides into the Eastern Rift and the Western Rift. The Western Rift, ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 19:38, 24 May 2024
- The Caribbean Sea is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part ... The Caribbean is home to about 9 percent of the world's coral ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- no law exists in isolation. Within a world situation, there is a give ... As the world becomes smaller in traveling time, and larger in legal ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- poet king. In 1968, UNESCO declared him a World Heritage Person. ... became king as Rama IV, known in the Western world as the king who appointed ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- in 1957. He was the first Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's ... Obafemi Awolowo was born in Ikenne, Western Nigeria, and educated ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- Ukiyo-e (浮世絵), "pictures of the floating world," is ... Ukiyo, meaning "floating world," refers to the lively and ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 01:28, 3 May 2023
- known to be the first representative of Western philosophy. ... Thales lived in the city of Miletus, in Ionia, now western Turkey ...7 KB (978 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- Rajendra also led campaigns against the Western Chalukya Satyasraya and ... between China and the countries of the Western world. Both the Srivijaya and ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- the growing split between the Eastern and Western churches. ... Constantinople was necessitated, from the western point of view, because Acacius ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 06:35, 18 April 2024
- Great Stupa containing relics of Buddha, a World Heritage Site. The monuments ... temples. UNESCO designated the monuments a World Heritage Site in 1989. ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 03:10, 23 December 2022
