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- Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...is the [[alluvial plain]] lying ''between'' the [[Tigris]] and [[Euphrates]] rivers, in modern [[Iraq]] an... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ...stine Chapel.png|250px|thumb|right|''God creates Adam'', by [[Michelangelo]]. The mural on the ceiling...
2: ...may or may not have been the [[first woman]], or Adam's first wife.
4: ...dash;אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
5: ...וָּה (Ḥavva) in Standard Hebrew,
6: ...#1575;ء (Ḥawwāʾ) in Arabic—means "[[Life|living]]." - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...ing this time included basalt, diorite (a type of dark, coarse-grained stone), sandstone, and alabaste...
27: ...re found together in a single grave on [[Keros]], dating from 2700 - 2750 BC.
42: ...o Santi|Raphael]] also sculpted a statue called ''David''. Most sculptures during the Renaissance were... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
5: ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]: Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh) |
16: sovereignty_type = [[National_Day|National Day]] |
18: established_dates = <br>[[April 23]], [[1920]] <br>[[October 29]...
58: ... rich history of people and the land laid the foundations of the current republic. Even though officia...
60: ...t of Turkish society -- that would become the foundation of the Turkish nation. This [[Turkish Nationa... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...itish]] forces which drove the former leader [[Saddam Hussein]] and his [[Ba'ath Party]] from power. ...
19: | '''[[Capital]]''' || [[Baghdad]]
49: ...] came to power (both groups were repressed by Saddam's government), although the Sunnis are now under...
54: ...were elected for 4-year terms. No non-Ba'ath candidates were allowed to run.
59: ...will appoint a Prime Minister and, on his recommendation, cabinet ministers.) - Islamic architecture (6677 bytes)
59: ...mbra]], the magnificent palace/fortress of [[Granada]], with its open and breezy interior spaces adorn...
62: ...tury [[Sultan Ahmed Mosque]] shows the brilliant adaptation and development of the forms established a...
70: [[image:Ctesiphon2.jpg|right|thumb|Ctesiphon, Baghdad, Iraq. Built for Persian Kings, inherited by Isl...
71: ...irth was that of Persia. The eastern banks of the Tigris and Euphrates was where the capital of the Persia...
73: ...borrowed heavily from Persian architecture. [[Baghdad]], for example, was based on Persian precedents ... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
5: ...], [[China]] and [[India]], but they laid the foundations of our modern world. While goods and religi...
11: ...ations developed rapidly. For example, the [[dromedary]] may have been domesticated as early as circa ...
18: ...] trade was extended to [[Harappa]] and [[Mohenjo-daro]] in the [[Indus Valley Civilization|Indus vall...
23: ... Dynasty]], Egyptians are returning with huge [[cedar]] trees. Sahure's name is found stamped on a thi...
28: ...[Badakhshan]] and, although separated by the formidable [[Pamir]] mountains, routes across them were, ... - Flood (7770 bytes)
7: ...ile]] river and to the [[Mesopotamia]]ns of the [[Tigris]] and [[Euphrates]] rivers.
16: ...slip on continental shelf'') may all engender a tidal wave called a [[tsunami]] that causes destructio...
22: ...lta Works]] with the [[Oosterschelde|Oosterscheldedam]] as its crowning achievement.
33: ...s a great flood caused by the breaking of the ice dams holding [[Lake Agassiz]].
34: ...oods]] of Washington, also caused by breaking ice dams. - Bengal Tiger (2114 bytes)
1: ...lor = pink | name = Bengal Tiger}}<br />{{StatusEndangered}}
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Felidae]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = ''[[Tiger| P. tigris]]''}}
11: {{Taxobox_subspecies_entry | taxon = '''''P. t. tigris'''''}} - Endangered species (12553 bytes)
2: ...revent extinction. Only a few of the many truly endangered species actually make it to the lists and o...
4: ... include: criteria for placing a species on the endangered species list, and criteria for removing a s...
6: A listing as an endangered species can backfire, as it makes a species...
8: ...ies]] is an indicator of the likelihood of that endangered species continuing to survive. Many factors...
15: ...free-living, natural population. Examples: [[Dromedary]], [[Przewalski's Horse]]. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
5: ...nnium BC and spoke a non-Indo-European language — conventionally called [[Hattic language|Hattic...
7: ...[Ezra]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian captivity]]; see [[Hittites in the Bi...
14: ...n/Babylonian "land of Hatti", were written in standard Akkadian [[cuneiform]] script, but in an unknow...
15: ...own language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names....
17: ...rich Hrozny|Bedřich Hrozný]] ([[1879]]–[[1952]]), who on [[24 November]] [[1915]] anno... - Trajan (7787 bytes)
5: ...ovince of [[Hispania Baetica]] in what is now [[Andalusia]]. Trajan himself was just one of many well-...
13: ...ed to Rome in triumph and was granted the title ''Dacicus Maximus''.
14: ...humb|150px|Roman Monument for the Victory at the Adamclisi]]
15: ...a Augusta Dacica [[Sarmizegetusa]]". He resettled Dacia with Romans and annexed it as a province of th...
17: ...ovince of [[Arabia Petrea]] (modern southern [[Jordan]] and a small part of [[Saudi Arabia]]). - Tiger (11674 bytes)
1: ...cats, living or extinct. Tigers are [[predator|predatory]] [[carnivore]]s.
2: ...n | color = white | name = Tiger}}<br />{{StatusEndangered}}
3: ...1_082A.jpg|noframe|250px|Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)]] | caption = Tiger }}
6: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Felidae]]}} - History of Sumer (5370 bytes)
10: ...have succeeded his father, Meskalamdug. Mesannepada also defeated Uruk and Kish, thereafter calling h...
14: At a later date, the high priests of Lagash made themselves kin...
31: ==Empire of Lugal-anne-mundu of Adab==
32: ...come under the sway of a Sumerian conqueror from Adab, Lugal-anne-mundu. According to inscriptions, h...
34: ...ash, at least some of them probably tributary to Adab during this time frame. The last of these, [[Uru... - Ur (11926 bytes)
1: ...1], near the city of [[Nasiriyah]] south of [[Baghdad]].
9: ...mall farming villages of the Ubaid culture consolidated into larger settlements out of the need for la...
11: ... king [[Mesannepada]] (or Mesanepada, Mes-Anni-Padda).
33: ...n [[necropolis]]. All about the city he found abundant remains of burials of later periods. Apparently...
37: ... Outside the temple area many houses used in everyday life were found. Excavations were also made belo... - Fertile Crescent (3589 bytes)
1: ... [[West Bank]], and [[Lebanon]] and parts of [[Jordan]], [[Syria]], [[Iraq]] and south-eastern [[Turke...
3: ... the [[Jordan river|Jordan]], [[Euphrates]] and [[Tigris]] rivers and covering some 400-500,000 square kil...
5: ...ast of the Fertile Crescent, between the rivers [[Tigris]] and [[Euphrates]]), also saw the emergence of e...
11: ... lies on the borders of Israel, the kingdom of Jordan and the area administered by the [[Palestinian A... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
2: ...script may precede any other form of writing, and dates to no later than about [[3500 BCE]]
24: ...[millet]], [[wheat]], [[turnip]]s, [[Date (fruit)|date]]s, [[onion]]s, [[garlic]], [[lettuce]], [[leek...
35: The [[Tigris-Euphrates plain]] lacked [[mineral]]s and [[tree]...
44: ... Food is all about, yet my food is hunger. On the day shares were allotted, my allotted share was suff...
51: ...that were scarce in Mesopotamia. In particular, cedar from Lebanon was prized. - Thor Heyerdahl (6085 bytes)
1: ...[October 6]], [[1914]] in [[Larvik]], [[Norway]]–[[April 18]], [[2002]] in [[Colla Micheri]], [[...
3: [[Image:Thor_heyerdahl.jpg|right|Thor Heyerdahl]]
7: ...amotu Islands]] on [[August 7]], 1947 after a 101 day 4,300 mile journey across the [[Pacific Ocean]],...
9: ...at time, I suffered from fear of the water," Heyerdahl once said.
11: ...building technology. On [[May 17]], [[1970]] Heyerdahl set sail from [[Morocco]] on the [[papyrus]] bo... - River (12397 bytes)
7: ...their mouths. Rivers whose mouths are in saline tidal waters may form [[estuary|estuaries]].
11: ... body of water such as a [[lake]], or simply from damp, [[bog|boggy]] places where the [[soil]] is [[w...
22: ...]] (non-salty). Living things in a river must be adapted to the current of the moving water.
25: ...ers is common, and very few rivers in the world today are clean of man-made substances. The most commo...
27: ==Dams== - Sargon of Akkad (2071 bytes)
1: ...[[Euphrates]] rivers, and part of what is present-day [[Turkey]]. His capital was [[Akkad]].
10: His daughter was [[Enheduanna]], the author of several A...
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