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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... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...am]]ic scholar and [[Jurisprudence|jurisprudent]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]...
8: ... all that is known about Ibn Battuta's life comes from one source – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn...
13: ...ney to Mecca was by land, and followed the North African coast of the [[Maghreb]] region quite closely...
17: ...joined up with a caravan travelling the 800 miles from Damascus to [[Medina]], burial place of [[Muham...
20: ...ity)|Isfahan]], which was only a few decades away from being nearly destroyed by [[Timur]]. Next were ... - 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...
25: ... political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dyna... - 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... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
6: ... defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
26: The current location of Cairo was too far from the ancient course of the Nile to support a cit...
28: ...t]], which lay close to an ancient Egyptian canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.
30: ...Abbasid]]s, and contains the first [[mosque]] in Africa.
32: ... settlement grew into a small city. The [[North Africa]]n [[Shiite]] [[Fatimid]] Dynasty conquered Eg... - 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...
15: ...iving European sailors some idea of the shape of Africa and Asia.
18: ... could be bypassed by trading directly with West Africa by sea. It was also hoped that south of the Sa... - 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]].
71: ...ies]]. It also underwent a brief period of feudal fragmentation in the mid-18th to early 19th centurie... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
37: established_dates = From the [[Soviet Union]]<br> [[31 August]] [[1991]]...
52: ...led along the [[Yenisey River]], where they lived from the [[6th century|6th]] until the [[8th century...
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... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
56: ...vs. Federal Republic of Germany or [[France]] vs. French Republic.
63: ...tained a chain of outposts around the [[Danube]]. From 20 to 50 AD, the Kingdom of [[Vannius]], a barb...
67: ...hs]] (from the 14th century), and [[Hungarians]] (from the late Middle Ages).
69: ...pulation loss resulted from the invasion of the [[Mongols]] in 1241 and the subsequent famine. However, med...
71: ...especially in rural areas. As the Turks retreated from Hungary in the 18th century, Slovakia's influen... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
37: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[September 9]], [[1...
56: ...s eventually superseded by Turkic invaders. The [[Mongols]] would later take control of the area, and Tajik...
69: ...m to have been flawed, arrousing many accusations from opposition parties that President Emomali Rakhm...
73: ...neworld.org/ips2/may/tajik.html Account of events from independence leading to the Bishkek agreement o...
105: ...his is a relatively new phenomenon and originates from the conquest of Central Asia by the Russian Emp... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br /...
62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]]...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India...
69: ... by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entir...
72: ... the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Em... - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...groups in Chinese history|nomadic tribes]] coming from areas now in modern day [[Mongolia]] and [[Manc...
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: ...e members of the Zhu family. During the rule of [[Mongols]], there were strong feelings against the rule of...
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 Yuan...
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 Hongw... - 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. - 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 ... - Polo (10046 bytes)
8: ... north of [[Kashmir]], near the fabled silk route from China to the West. In one ancient sentence it e...
14: ...followers of Siyⶡsh, a legendary Persian prince from the earliest centuries of the Empire. The poet ...
16: ...uries. The Chinese most probably learned the game from the Iranian nobles who sought refuge in Chinese...
20: ...port in those times, from [[Japan]] to [[Egypt]], from [[India]] to the [[Byzantine Empire]]. As the g...
29: ...ng passes downfield to riders who had broken away from the pack at a full gallop. - History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...ble. Yet, humans had colonized nearly all the ice-free parts of the globe by the end of the Ice Age, s...
12: ...of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did not use agriculture until relatively mode...
14: ...y. However, these civilisations were so different from one another that they almost certainly must hav...
29: ...their territory through conquest and colonisation from the beginning of the [[5th century BCE]]. By th...
31: ...ed control. The pressure of [[barbarians]] on the frontiers hastened the process of internal dissoluti... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...th century|14th centuries]]. The Seljuks migrated from the north into [[Persia]], fighting and conquer...
3: ...g the Islamic world against [[Crusade|Crusaders]] from the West, and conquering the [[Byzantine Empire...
5: ...] was captured and held captive by Turkish nomads from [[1153]] to [[1156]] and died the following yea...
7: ...ined in the middle of the [[13th century]], the [[Mongols]] invaded [[Anatolia]] in the [[1260s]] and divid...
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