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- 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 ... - 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. - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...e:nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] ris...
6: ...ranean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|M...
8: ... a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilian...
18: ...7. Spain's fascist government lead by [[Francisco Franco]] was a great asset in trade to the Axis powe...
22: ...of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Gr... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...non-state actors. Piracy should be distinguished from [[privateer]]ing, which was a legitimate form o...
12: ...1.8-2]) says this happened earlier, on his return from Nicomedes's court. Velleius Paterculus (''Roman...
20: ...'', and given the responsibility of eliminating [[Frankish]] and [[Saxons|Saxon]] pirates who had been...
27: ...se in 844. Vikings even attacked coasts of North Africa and Italy. They also plundered all the coasts ...
29: ... of the [[Balearic Islands]] in the 10th century. From 824 to 961 [[Arab]] pirates in [[Crete]] raided... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
4: ...regions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Although the struggle between execu...
8: ...cs' constitutionally guaranteed "right" to secede from the union. Russia was the largest of the union ...
12: ...chev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected a...
14: ...go]], [[Gennady Yanayev]], and [[Oleg Baklanov]] (from left) go public with the formation of a State o...
18: ... and they quickly received diplomatic recognition from many nations. Gorbachev's rump government recog... - Scythia (22520 bytes)
1: ... location and extent of Scythia varied over time, from the [[Altai]] region where [[Mongolia]], [[Chin...
3: ...s as ''Ishkuzai'', who are reported as pouring in from the north some time around 700 BC, settling in ...
7: ...Indo-European word for ''archer'' in turn derives from the [[Proto-Indo-European]] root *'''skeud''', ...
9: ...riors, drawn after figures on an [[electrum]] cup from the Kul'Oba kurgan burial near [[Kerch]] ([[Her...
21: ...f scholars conjecture that they migrated westward from [[Central Asia]] between [[800 BC]] and [[600 B... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ... he drove the western emperor [[Valentinian III]] from his capital at [[Ravenna]] in [[452]].
9: ...n or proto-[[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] nomad tribes from north-eastern [[China]] and [[Central Asia]]. T...
14: ... steppes of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the Danube river to the Baltic Sea]]
15: ...ns. The Huns, satisfied with the treaty, decamped from the empire and departed into the interior of th...
17: ...ations and that the [[bishop]] of Margus (not far from modern Belgrade) had crossed the Danube to rans... - Steppe (1362 bytes)
3: ...''') is a [[plain]] without [[tree]]s (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to ... - River (12397 bytes)
4: ...iver consists of several basic parts, originating from headwaters or a [[spring (water)|spring]] at th...
11: ...rom a body of water such as a [[lake]], or simply from damp, [[bog|boggy]] places where the [[soil]] i...
22: ...nt from those of the ocean because the water is [[fresh water|sweet]] (non-salty). Living things in a ...
31: ...] and [[sediment]] which enriched the fields with fresh [[nutrient]]s. Nowadays, floods are disasters,...
63: ...ongest rivers are, mainly because rivers have a [[fractal]] property, which means that the more precis... - Culture of Russia (14552 bytes)
9: ...came an offshooot version of the [[mosaic]] and[[ fresco]] traditions. Icon paintings in Russia are u...
14: ...nstructivism]], and [[futurism]]. Notable artists from this era include [[El Lissitzky]], [[Kazimir Ma...
18: .... However the latter sought too much independence from the ruling [[Communist Party]] of [[Bolsheviks]...
73: ...80px|The most common type of [[matryoshka dolls]] from [[Semyonov]] ]]
113: ...sh, cereal based products and drinks. Vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, berries, herbs also play a major p...
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