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1. Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
   3: The '''Age of Enlightenment''' refers to the [[18th century]] in [[Europe | E...
   4: ...ation in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
   6: ...litical]] theories of the age. However, prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacq...
   8: ...rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]]...
   10: ...eriod). Furthermore, [[Romanticism]] followed the Enlightenment.

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1. History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
   1: ...premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[logic]]), [[empiricism...
   7: ...odern" is a word with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the sp...
   10: ...ents were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[Anaximander]] ("All is air").
   12: ... parts), the [[Eleatic School|Eleatics]] [[Parmenides]] and [[Zeno of Elea|Zeno]] (All is One and chan...
   14: ... the subjects and methods of debate became highly developed.
2. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
   1: ...t of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufactur...
   3: ...wth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power gen...
   5: ...red to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|no...
   10: ...he accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumula...
   12: ...h often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them.
3. Puritan (15882 bytes)
   1: ...mbers of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
   4: ...list]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
   5: ...at "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practiti...
   8: ...nacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), Protestan...
   10: ...ble|biblical]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of a...
4. Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
   2: ...Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absol...
   5: ... the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[J...
   9: ...ated to make this document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly h...
   11: ... freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status hereditary; and gave the nobles full...
   13: ...ncouraged foreign investment in economically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censor...
5. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
   1: ...age:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
   3: ...at became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and was the editor-in-chief of the famous ''[[...
   5: ...n which many an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
   7: ...s]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the w...
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6. Renaissance (14795 bytes)
   1: ...e [[Modern Age]]. The Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in the [[14th century]] in [[Ita...
   5: ... by French historian [[Jules Michelet]], and expanded upon by [[Switzerland|Swiss]] historian [[Jacob ...
   10: ...riod is now often replaced by the term "[[Early Modern]]". (See [[periodization|periodisation]], [[Lum...
   12: ...e as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
   17: ...del Fiore.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] church of [[Florence]], [[Italy]]. Flore...
7. Cartography (10500 bytes)
   1: ...s into one of three main types; [[computer-aided design |CAD]], [[geographic information system | GIS...
   7: ... map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The oldest maps emphasized topological relationships such ...
   9: ...flooding of the [[Nile]] obscured the property borders.
   11: ...rence of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
   13: ...le]] later provided arguments in support of this idea. Those arguments can be summarized as follows:
8. Science (19868 bytes)
   8: ...ce in terms of [[ontology]]: science attempts to identify what "things" in the world, their causal pow...
   10: ...the empiricist tradition, we must be careful to understand that "prediction" refers to the outcome of ...
   12: ...used interchangeably. Both have been subjected to devastating criticisms:
   14: ...demonstrated the impossibility of a theory-independent observation language, so the very notion of tes...
   15: ...steady accumulation of facts, as the empiricist model implies.
9. Ashoka (15187 bytes)
   5: ...abharata rulers, to unify such a vast territory under his empire, which in retrospect exceeds the boun...
   10: ...anked Queen known as Dharma. Ashoka had several elder siblings and just one younger sibling, Vitthasho...
   14: ...omed by the revolting militias and the uprising ended without a fight. (The province revolted once mor...
   16: Ashoka's success made his step-brothers more wary of his intentions of ...
   18: ...utra]], but instead sent him back to Ujjain and made him the governor of Ujjain.
10. Europe (23835 bytes)
    4: ...ains]] and the [[Caspian Sea]] (for more detailed description see [[Geography of Europe]]).
    6: When considered a continent, Europe is the world's second smal...
    11: ...and Greece and by [[500 BC]] its meaning was extended to lands to the north.
    13: ... west. Likewise, [[Asia]] is also thought to have derived from the Akkadian word ''asu'', which means ...
    18: ...es in [[Ireland]] and elsewhere carefully safeguarded and compiled knowledge accumulated previously. T...
11. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    7: ... ittihād, nazm<br /> ([[Urdu]]: Faith (self confidence), Unity, Discipline) |
    13: government_type = [[Federal republic]] |
    14: ..._titles = [[President of Pakistan|President]]<br />[[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Prime Minis...
    15: leader_names = [[Pervez Musharraf]]<br />[[...
    19: area_magnitude = |
12. Flag of Indiana (917 bytes)
    1: ..._flag.jpg|thumb|right|Flag of Indiana. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
    2: ...the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]]. The design was created by [[Paul Hadley]] of [[Mooresvil...
13. Mummy (16225 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Mummy 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
    2: ...reserved [[corpse]] that, due to shielding from [[decomposition]] by either natural or artificial mean...
    8: ...orld. Some of the best-preserved mummies formed under natural conditions date from the [[Inca]] period...
    12: ...he [[English language|English]] word ''mummy'' is derived from mediaeval [[Latin]] ''mumia'', a borrow...
    16: ...mmification was made so that the bodies would not decompose in the afterlife. The mummified individual...
14. History of science (41710 bytes)
    2: Modern [[science]] is a body of verifiable [[empirical...
    4: ... change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still...
    6: ...] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects and systems, which differs ...
    11: ...mphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
    13: ...e, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of ...
15. American Revolution (17069 bytes)
    2: ...d Concord]] and continued after the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The ...
    4: ...tion of [[George Washington]] as the first [[President of the United States]] in [[1789]]. Beyond that...
    10: ...rn frontier. Most white colonists in America considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crown...
    16: ...his European Enlightenment and were a source for ideas regarding [[separation of church and state]] an...
    23: ...ese new policies grew steadily throughout the decade, and had a significant impact on the emergence of...
16. Politics (7193 bytes)
    2: ... group interactions including [[corporate]], [[academic]], and [[religious]].
    6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
    9: ...tion of human associations. Hobbes described an ideal [[state of nature]] wherein every person had eq...
    11:
    14: ...rs), taxation, and writing. All of which require densely populated settlements - cities.
17. John Locke (14749 bytes)
    2: ...-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
    3: ...up called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is...
    6: ...found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical mat...
    8: ...ed a bachelor's degree in [[1656]] and a master's degree in [[1658]]. Although Locke never became a me...
    10: ...n Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
18. Colonial America (32872 bytes)
    4: To summarize the areas of development in colonial America, historians typicall...
    9: ... the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
    11: ...on and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrative [[South America|South]] and [[Centr...
    16: ...mercial enterprise]], [[over-population]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respec...
    22: ...ir [[Walter Raleigh]]. The second resupply ship, delayed for several years by circumstances in Englan...
19. Anthropology (23191 bytes)
    1: ...ecome increasingly the subject of controversy and debate, with anthropological methods now being commo...
    3: ...nited States]], anthropology is traditionally divided into four fields:
    5: ... among the social group being studied for an extended period of time;
    7: ...sed within a living or past group as mediums of understanding its cultural values.
    14: ...ibutes to understanding how it fits into other academic disciplines.
20. Christianity (47078 bytes)
    2: ...e life and teachings of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]] as described in the [[New Testament]] of the [[Bible]]....
    6: ... of the term "Christ" to describe Jesus, which is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] translatio...
    8: ... encompasses numerous religious traditions that widely vary by culture, as well as thousands of divers...
    9: #[[Roman Catholicism]] (the largest single denomination, with over one billion adherents),
    11: #[[Protestantism]] (numerous denominations & schools of thought, including [[Angl...

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