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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and v...
7: ... formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and ...
16: ...eir nation as culturally and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nati...
18: ...] and [[Xiongnu]]. As the PRC now governs [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and the ROC now... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ... Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the [[Western Roman Empire]] ([[5th ...
6: ...ern European historians. That term has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotyp...
8: ... lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise o...
12: ...oon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction between the cult...
14: ...ying cultural influence, preserving its selection from Latin learning, maintaining the art of writing,... - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: ...y this is used for the production of [[pig iron]] from [[iron ore]].
4: ... transmitted to [[Europe]] by the [[Mongol Empire|Mongols]].
9: ...tall [[chimney]]-like [[cauldron]] lined with [[refractory]] brick. Coke, limestone and iron ore are ...
23: ...tated and the processed pig iron can be separated from the oxidised impurities. For some time, the pr...
25: ... heat from the hot carbon dioxide when it escapes from the top of the furnace, further improving effic... - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ...re written down in ''Il Milione'' ("The Milione", from Polo's family nickname ''Emilione'', or ''[[The...
5: ...ed people to teach in his empire, to inform the [[Mongols]] about their way of life.
7: ...re is a tradition that the Polo family originated from the island of [[Korcula|Korčula]] in today...
16: On their return from China in [[1295]], the family settled in [[Veni...
23: ...hat far, and only retold information he had heard from others. Those skeptics point out that, among ot... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
18: ...ique is the use of the [[left]]-hand [[thumb]] to fret notes on the bottom string, particularly on the...
24: ...om [[Central Asia]], from whence several kinds of fretted long-necked [[chordophone]]s stem, including...
26: ... Asian instruments described above. Similarly, [[fret]]s on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gu...
28: ...particularly with the ''[[skomorokh]]s'', sort of free-lance musical [[jester]]s whose tunes ridiculed...
30: ...l, is quite difficult to reconcile when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russi... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...e so-called '''Age of Exploration''' was a period from the early [[15th century]] and continuing into ...
7: ... East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close links to t...
9: ...[[Marco Polo]] who traveled throughout the Orient from [[1271]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written u...
11: ...voyages had little immediate effect, however, the Mongol Empire collapsed almost as quickly as it formed a...
15: ...iving European sailors some idea of the shape of Africa and Asia. - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
3: ...ww.stat.kz/en/info/stat-bul/stbr&e0303.pdf], down from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/d...
50: | From [[Soviet Union]], [[December 16]], [[1991]]
70: ...nistrative districts were established under the [[Mongol Empire]], which eventually became the territories...
72: ... the livestock-based economy. The Kazakhs emerged from a mixture of tribes living in the region in abo...
76: ...ose still further once the [[Trans-Aral Railway]] from [[Orenburg]] to [[Tashkent]] was completed in 1... - Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
2: ...h an eastern coast on the [[Caspian Sea]]. It has frontiers with [[Russia]] in the north, [[Georgia (c...
40: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[30 August]] [[1991...
54: ...an." The most common theory is that it is derived from "Atropatan." [[Atropat]] was the [[satrap]] at ...
65: ... [[Roman Empire|Romans]], [[Arabs]], [[Turks]], [[Mongols]] and [[Russians]].
69: ...ntury|14th centuries]], the country experienced [[Mongol]]-[[Tatar]] invasions. - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
37: established_dates = From the [[Soviet Union]]<br> [[31 August]] [[1991]]...
52: ...n, remaining in that area until the rise of the [[Mongol Empire]] in the [[13th century]], when the Kyrgyz...
56: ...mid-[[1920s]] by the Russians to distinguish them from the Kazakhs, who were also referred to as Kirgh...
58: ...[Joseph Stalin]], who controlled the Soviet Union from the late 1920's until [[1953]].
62: ...eks form a majority of the population. Violent confrontations ensued, and a state of emergency and cur... - Hungary (18459 bytes)
57: ...lemagne]]. The decline of the kingdom of the East Franks, after the death of Charlemagne, was favourab...
59: ...reat loss of life in [[1241]]–[[1242]] by [[Mongol]] ([[Tatar]]) armies of [[Batu Khan]].
61: ...inus of Hungary|Matthias Corvinus]] ruled Hungary from 1458 to 1490. He strengthened Hungary and its g...
63: ...oday's Hungary by the end of the [[17th century]] from the Ottoman Empire.
65: ...n absolutism resulted in the unsuccessful popular freedom fight led by a Transylvanian nobleman, [[Fer... - Vietnam (18265 bytes)
6: ... II]], [[Japan]] occupied Vietnam. After the war, France attempted to re-establish control but ultimat...
8: ...r Powers Resolution]] prevented the United States from defending South Vietnam. [[Fall of Saigon|Saigo...
10: ...public of Vietnam."'' Refugees continued fleeing from Vietnam through the rest of the decade, and int...
12: ...tnam invaded [[Cambodia]] and removed [[Pol Pot]] from power and into hiding, thereby decisively stabi...
17: ...ut in practice it receives most of its directives from the party. Although there has been some effort ... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
37: ... Soviet Union|Independence]]'''<br> Date || From [[Soviet Union]]<br>[[August 24]] [[1991]]
55: ...r the name. Most translate it as "borderland" or "frontier" (compare [[Krajna]], [[Krajina]] - in Poli...
60: ... the speakers of the Proto-Iranian language moved from Ukraine to the southeast but many also remained...
64: ...us' was founded by [[Varangian]]s, Scandinavians, from present-day [[Sweden]]. The Varangians later be...
66: ...ars]] (a [[Turkic]] semi-[[nomad|nomadic people]] from [[Central Asia]] who adopted [[Judaism]]) found... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...ic tribes]] coming from areas now in modern day [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]].
3: ...formidable [[1 E6 m|6,350 km]] (3,946 [[mile]]s), from [[Shanhai Pass]] on the [[Bohai Gulf]] in the e...
12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]] of t...
46: ...uction. Near [[Beijing]] the wall is constructed from [[quarry|quarried]] [[limestone]] blocks. In ot...
48: ...od materials are scarce, the wall was constructed from dirt rammed between rough wood tied together wi... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...t revolt that pushed the Yuan dynasty back to the Mongolian steppes. The revolt, led by [[Zhu Yuanzhang]],...
5: [[Image:Hung-wu.jpg|framed|left|Hongwu Emperor]]
6: ...d the flooding of the Yellow River as a result of Mongols' abandonment of irrigation projects. In Late Yua...
8: ...one of the only two dynastic founders who emerged from the [[peasant]] class, the other being [[Han Ga...
10: ...taining a strong military was essential since the Mongols were still a threat. As an aside, the name Hong... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...ally in [[Japan]]. ''Silk road'' is a translation from the [[German language|German]] ''Seidenstraߥ''...
3: ...hrough the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Africa]].
13: ... the way from the shores of the [[Pacific]] to [[Africa]], and deep into the heart of [[Europe]]. Thes...
18: [[Lapis lazuli]] was being traded from its only known source in the ancient world R...
28: ...ains, routes across them were, apparently, in use from very early times. - List of religions (13836 bytes)
3: ...major religions" have historically been separated from the list of all religions can be found in the a...
59: ***[[Jacob Frank|Frankists]]
129: ***[[Society of Friends]] (Quakers)
145: *African religions
187: **[[Tengri|Tengrism]] (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief) - Archery (18991 bytes)
7: ...involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy from a set distance or distances. This is the most p...
11: ...ionale de Tir ࠬ'Arc). Olympic rules are derived from FITA rules.
15: ... 18 m and 25 m. Outdoor distances range from 30 m to 90 m (for senior archers, jun...
25: ... spaced concentric rings, which have score values from 1 through 10 assigned to them. In addition, the...
60: ...rks or flags are set out in an area archers shoot from a start point at an elected mark attempting to ...
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