Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below 13 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - Pottery (17136 bytes)
2: ... [[clay]]s are shaped and dried, then fired to harden them and make them waterproof. Unglazed pottery...
4: ...s of years old but also takes advantage of more modern innovations in the fields of chemistry and elec...
8: ... and date the stratum, by the formation style and decoration. The relative chronologies based on pott...
19: ...symmetry, so that it does not move from side to side as the wheel head rotates is referred to as "cent...
21: ...f the foot of the pot to create a smooth and well-defined surface. - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...y]] is a type of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[Egyptology]].
5: ...ist with no satisfactory solution. Scholars consider the creation of an Egyptian chronology a difficu...
7: ...ages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Teaching/HIS-SCI-STUDY-GUIDE/0006_egyptianChronolgoy.html]
9: ...plete, also (with relics and artifacts missing or destroyed). Egyptian chronology is in a constant sta...
13: ...phres Era'' may radically modify the prevailing modern Egyptian chronology, so the previous "firm" dat... - Australia (39438 bytes)
13: leader_titles = [[Queen of Australia|Queen]]<br>[[Gover...
14: leader_names = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Eli...
16: area_magnitude=1_E12|
24: population_density = 2|
25: population_density_rank = —| - Scythia (22520 bytes)
3: ...time around 700 BC, settling in [[Ascania]] and modern [[Azerbaijan]] as far as to the southeast of [[...
5: ...hian tribes mentioned in mainly Greek sources resided in the steppe between the [[Dnieper]] and [[Don]...
7: ...ancient Indo-European word for ''archer'' in turn derives from the [[Proto-Indo-European]] root *'''sk...
13: ... of the "Pazyryk culture" - including the "Ice Maiden" of the [[5th century BC]]. (see below)
21: ...s to account for the origin of the Scythians, nor details of how they migrated to the Caucasus or [[Uk... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...own time. Plato did mention it was somewhere outside the [[Pillars of Hercules]] (i.e. the [[Straits o...
7: ...m his grandfather also named Critias, son of Dropides.
12: ...intended to illustrate Plato's philosophy of the ideal government. Plato's account purports to be base...
14: ... of [[Gades]] (Greek, [[Eumelus]]; Atlantean, [[Gadeirus]]).
17: ... come from the continent beyond the islands, in order to offer sacrifice to the gods of the ocean. - Giza pyramid complex (7332 bytes)
1: ... is the only remaining monument of the [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]].
3: ==Description==
4: ...th-west. The [[Great Sphinx]] lies on the east side of the complex, facing east. Current consensus am...
6: ...rld]]. Today it is the only one of the ancient Wonders still in existence.
8: ...[Abu Ruwaysh]], and [[Abusir]], were collectively declared a [[World Heritage Site]] in 1979 - Carbon (15360 bytes)
4: ...st known [[mineral]]). Structure: each atom is bonded tetrahedrally to four others, making a 3-dimensi...
5: ...ix-membered rings; the flat sheets are loosely bonded.
6: ...ly large molecules formed completely of carbon bonded trigonally, forming spheroids (of which the most...
10: ...graphite-like clusters, in which the atoms are bonded trigonally in six- and seven-membered rings.
11: ...onally in a curved sheet that forms a hollow cylinder. - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
1: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
6: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
5: ...of the 16th and 17th century. Common motifs include scrolling vine networks, [[arabesque]]s, [[palmet...
8: ...s used in carpets, including wool and [[cotton]], decay. Therefore [[archeology|archaeologists]] are n...
10: What has remained from early times as evidence of carpet-weaving is nothing more than a few p...
12: Among the oldest pieces discovered are those found in Eastern [[...
14: ...sts under the supervision of [[Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko]]. Radiocarbon testing revealed that Pazyryk c... - Cave art (4661 bytes)
1: ...ng to [[prehistoric]] times. Rock paintings are made since the [[Upper Paleolithic]], 40,000 years ago...
6: ...by [[Creationism|Creationists]] to support their ideas and ridicule Darwin's. Recent reappraisals and ...
8: ... the [[Wisconsin glaciation|last ice age]]. The oldest cave is that of [[Chauvet Cave|Chauvet]], and i...
10: ...such as [[bison]], [[horse]]s, [[aurochs]], and [[deer]], and tracings of human [[hand]]s as well as a...
12: ...l was incised in the rock first. Stone lamps provided some light. [[Abbé ‚reuill]] interpreted the pai... - Tollund Man (2471 bytes)
1: ...[peat bog]] on the [[Jutland]] [[Peninsula]] in [[Denmark]], a find known as a [[bog body]]. He is re...
3: ...nly suppose that they had stumbled on a recent murder. They immediately notified the police at Silkeb...
5: ...throat and then coiled like a snake over his shoulder and down his back.
7: ...acid in the peat, along with the lack of oxygen underneath the surface, had preserved the soft tissues... - Holocene (4155 bytes)
1: ...alendar years [[Before_Present|BP]]). However, evidence for the Younger Dryas is not clear cut anywher...
3: ... unofficial [[Quaternary]] sub-era). The name is derived from the Greek ''holos'' (entire(ly)) and ''...
5: Paleontologists have defined no [[faunal stage]]s for the Pleistocene or ...
10: ...ny areas above about 40 degrees latitude had been depressed by the weight of the Pleistocene glaciers ...
12: ...posits. Holocene marine deposits along low-latitude coastlines are rare because the rise in sea level...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).