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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...ending also to present-day [[India]], the [[Maldives]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Southeast Asia]] and [[China]...
4: ...'', a title or honorific at times given to the names of scholars particularly in the Islamic East, mea...
6: ...ently fictional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of...
8: ...ting or story-telling. The following account assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
11: ... Muslim world, and beyond (about 44 modern countries). - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...ia]], as well as other points. Its influence carries over on to [[Korea]] and terminated eventually in...
3: ...ough Turkestan-Khorasan, through [[Iran]] into [[Mesopotamia]] and [[Anatolia]], and then through [[An...
5: ...e was probably conducted over sections of the routes and it is probable that merchants and travellers ...
11: ...ad domesticated [[horse]]s around [[4000 BC]]. Domestication of the [[Bactrian camel]] followed later....
13: ...thout arousing the hostility of more settled peoples. - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...sion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. [[August 9]], [[1945]]]]
2: ... every inhabited continent. Virtually all countries that participated in [[World War I]] were involve...
4: ...ino-Japanese War]]), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of [[Manchuria]]. Still others argue th...
6: ...ctory]] Days), but continued in Asia until [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [...
8: ... of World War II casualties by country|died as a result of the war]], including acts of genocide such ... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...ate actors, authorized by their national authorities, until this form of [[commerce raiding]] was outl...
4: ...challenges global governance |date=2009-04-09 |accessdate=2009-04-09 |publisher=[[Open Democracy]]}}</...
10: ...ref> By the 1st century BC, there were pirate states along the [[Anatolia]]n coast, threatening the co...
12: ...sar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death.
14: ...e threat. (See [[Pompey#Campaign against the pirates]]). - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...eration|A new constitution]], creating a strong presidency, was approved by referendum in December [[1...
4: ...w constitution, the two branches continued to represent fundamentally opposing visions of Russia's fut...
8: ...ght" to secede from the union. Russia was the largest of the union republics in terms of territory and...
10: ...with substantial blocs of pro-reform representatives.
12: ...n June 1991, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 percent of the vote. - Scythia (22520 bytes)
1: ...an Scythians and were known as [[Sai]] to the Chinese.
5: ...ythian]], has been shown to have strong similarities to Eastern Iranian, it is generally held that the...
7: ...nt Indo-European word for ''archer'' in turn derives from the [[Proto-Indo-European]] root *'''skeud''...
9: ...g|thumb|350px|Scythian warriors, drawn after figures on an [[electrum]] cup from the Kul'Oba kurgan bu...
13: ...ai Mountains]] have included some spectacularly-preserved Scythians of the "Pazyryk culture" - includi... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ... [[Battle of Chalons|Chalons]]; and he drove the western emperor [[Valentinian III]] from his capital ...
5: ... as a great and noble king, and he plays major roles in three [[Norse saga]]s.
9: ...d and civilized) by their splendid state of readiness for combat, amazing mobility, and weapons like t...
14: ...x|left|The Hunnish empire stretched from the steppes of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the...
15: ...st [[sea wall]], and to build up his border defenses along the Danube. - Steppe (1362 bytes)
1: ..._in_the_early_spring.jpg|350px|thumb|A steppe in Western Kazakhstan in early spring]]
3: ...port a [[forest]] but not so dry as to make it a desert.
5: ...hbouring republics of [[Central Asia]]. The steppes begin east
6: ...[Volga]] river and extend through desert or semi-desert south of the [[Ural Mountains]] and to the nor...
8: ranges of [[Mongolia]], [[China]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Taj... - River (12397 bytes)
4: ... at its end and forms what is known as a delta or estuary.
7: ... in saline tidal waters may form [[estuary|estuaries]].
9: ...aking]]''). Waterfalls are sometimes used as sources of energy, via [[watermill]]s and [[hydroelectric...
11: ...ly larger) river. In [[arid]] areas rivers sometimes end by losing water to [[evaporation]] and percol...
13: The area drained by a river and its tributaries is called its [[watershed]]. - Culture of Russia (14552 bytes)
1: ...d has changed under [[Czarist]] and [[Soviet]] rules and under the relgious leadership of the [[Russi...
9: ...me an offshooot version of the [[mosaic]] and[[ fresco]] traditions. Icon paintings in Russia are uni...
18: ...[1980's]] the government ruled that it could not restrict what Russians artists could paint.
22: ...00's the [[Naryshkin baroque]],with many similarties to European baroque style, was popular. Througou...
48: ... World War I, Russian film schools would take copies of [[D. W. Griffith]]'s [[Intolerance]] and re-cu...
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