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- Land bridge (3351 bytes)
1: ...]s and [[human]]s have migrated out of Africa. A land bridge doesn't have to be narrow enough to be c...
4: ...ion, is part of the edge of the [[North American plate]]. For causes of sea level changes, see [[Sea ...
6: ... first an [[island arc]], and then continuous dry land have been created.
9: ... [[Bering land bridge]] connected North Asia and Alaska.
10: * [[Sinai Peninsula]] connects North Africa ([[Egypt]]) and Southwest... - Holy Land (2739 bytes)
1: ...raditions: [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], and [[Islam]]. These areas include, but are not limited to, ...
3: ...ere started on the pretext of recovering the Holy Land. More recently, the region is at the center of ...
7: ==Its meaning in Islam==
9: The term "Holy Land" is used in the [[Qur'an]]:
11: ..., [[Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall|Pickthall]] translation) - Land (1318 bytes)
1: * '''Land''' is sometimes used synonymously with [[countr...
2: ... can also be for "a land of a [[people]]", particularly in the absence of a [[state]] or [[government]...
3: ...by [[ocean]]s or other bodies of [[water]]. See [[landform]].
4: * In [[economics]], [[land (economics)|land]] is a [[Factors of production|factor of produc...
5: ...e terms [[motherland]], [[fatherland]], and [[homeland]] refer to someone's country of affiliation, bi...
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...[[Latin America]] and the most populous [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-speaking country in the world.
12: image_flag = Mexico flag large.png |
16: ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelect...
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
20: latd=19|latm=03|latNS=N|longd=99|longm=22|longEW=W| - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin America]]."
5: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
10: ...="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Costa rica flag large.png|125px|]]
11: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Costa Rica|Full Size]])
16: ... <small>''[[National motto]]: ?Pura vida!<br>(Popular saying meaning "Pure life!")''</small> - Plateau (3062 bytes)
2: ... a layer of particularly resistant rock, and underlain by softer rock.
4: ...sociated with continents; the vast [[Ontong Jaya Plateau]] of the western Pacific is an example of suc...
6: == Examples of plateaus ==
7: ...teau]] is one of the most famous examples of this landform, but there are many other notable examples ...
8: ...|Allegheny]]/[[Cumberland Plateau]] (a continuous landform with different local names) - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...ial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not c...
7: ...ablets describe the possible use of something similar to an [[Archimedes' screw]] as a process of rais...
13: ...e, who missed the natural surroundings of her homeland.]]
15: ... depressing. The king decided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop...
17: ...ranslation of the Greek word [[kremastos]] or the Latin word [[pensilis]], which means not just "hangi... - Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
1: ...called the "''Pharos of Alexandria''" after the island on which it resided), was considered one of the...
3: ... century BC and remained operational until it was largely destroyed by two [[earthquake]]s in the 14th...
5: ...rtin Heemskerck. The [[lighthouse]] stood on an island in the harbour of [[Alexandria]] and was over 1...
7: ...a middle octagonal section, and at the top a circular section. At its apex was positioned a [[mirror]]...
9: ...ighthouse existed. Probably more accurate is the claim the light from the lighthouse could be seen 35 ... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...''' (meaning ''River of January'' in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]) is the name of both a [[Rio d...
9: ...s capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
15: ...reating the village as strategic location for [[Atlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Afri...
17: ...wards and then westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowadays.
19: ...篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Port... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and ...
7: ...h itself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically signif...
14: ...this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: s&...
15: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...stors of modern [[Chinese character]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records... - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ... plains in totality as well as the surrounding lowland territories bounded by the [[Arabian Desert]] t...
5: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
6: ...nclude the [[Hittites]] and the [[Elamite Empire|Elamites]]. During the time of the [[Persian Empire]]...
12: * [[Halaf period]] (or ''Halafian'')
19: ...g|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]] - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...nd dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
8: ...Darius Hystaspis]], concerning whom [[Ctesias]] relates that his grave was in the face of a rock, and ...
12: ...] was brought home "to the Persians" his burying-place must be sought somewhere beside that of his fat...
14: ...oup of ruins in the same style is found at the village of Hajjiäbäd, on the Pulwar, a good hour's wa...
18: ... however, for the rulers of the empire, a remote place in a difficult alpine region was far from conve... - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
3: ...orations]] began in the late [[15th century]] and lasted for a little more than three full centuries.
39: *[[Nicolau Coelho]]
47: *[[João Fernandes Lavrador]]
56: *[[Ferdinand Magellan]]
71: *[[Samuel de Champlain]] - Bjarni Herjulfsson (982 bytes)
1: ...He did, however, report his findings both in Greenland and in Norway, but no one seemed to have taken ...
3: ...ropeans in the Americas (if not counting the Greenland settlements).
7: * [[Vinland]] - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ...[[Greenland]] (long before it had been named Greenland, it had perhaps been inhabited by the [[Dorset ...
4: ...discovery pushed him aside in the history of Greenland and Erik the Red has been dubbed the genuine di...
6: ...ck in Iceland, Erik returned to Greenland with a large number of [[colonists]] and established two co...
8: ...title was that of [[paramount chieftain]] of Greenland and there Erik was both greatly respected and w...
10: ...ups of [[immigrant]]s escaping overcrowding in Iceland. However, one group of immigrants that arrived ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...[[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship co...
2: ...x|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...r whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck i...
5: ...t voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the gen...
7: ...ay" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...to present-day [[India]], the [[Maldives]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Southeast Asia]] and [[China]], a distanc...
4: ... Abdullah ibn Muhammed ibn Ibrahim Ibn Battuta al-Lawati al-Tanji'''.
6: .... Whilst apparently fictional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of...
8: ... assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
13: ...st-travelled: a journey up the Nile, then east by land to the Red Sea port of [[Aydhad|'Aydhad]]. Howe... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ndustry and machine manufacture. It began in [[England]] with the introduction of [[steam engine|steam...
3: ...of steam-powered [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[...
7: ...uced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in the second half of the [[19th century]].
10: ...de]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also c...
12: ...yst of the Industrial Revolution, particularly explaining why it occurred in Britain. In other nations... - China (38909 bytes)
3: ... another in [[continent]]al [[East Asia]] for the last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view, m...
5: ...d outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes....
7: ..., the ROC, while never formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as th...
10: :''Main article: [[Name of China in various languages]]''
14: ...al State". It literally means "middle (or centre) land," referring to the historic position of China a... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...s name derives from its [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] language, [[Kirundi]].
3: ...es in seeking to bring an end to the supremacist claims of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the grow...
8: image_flag = Burundi flag large.png |
10: ...tto = Unit鬠Travail, Progr賠([[French language|French]]: Unity, Work, Progress) |
13: ... = [[Kirundi language|Kirundi]] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.| - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...ristopher Columbus]], thought the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelli...
10: ...he role of Vespucci has been much debated, particularly due to two of his letters whose authenticity h...
12: ...ngs, so Waldseem�ller based the new name on the Latin form of Vespucci's first name, taking the femi...
14: The two disputed letters claim that Vespucci made four voyages to America, whi...
16: ...n August 23, 1499, while on this voyage. But his claim is clearly fraudulent, which casts more doubt o... - Kom Ombo (811 bytes)
5: ... displaced from their land upon the creation of [[Lake Nasser]]. - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
2: ...k|Valdemar IV of Denmark]] and Helvig of Sonderjylland. She married, at the age of ten, King [[Haakon ...
4: ...s nobles were already in arms against their unpopular king, [[Albert of Mecklenburg]].
6: ...all Margaret's conditions, elected her "Sovereign Lady and Ruler", and engaged to accept from her any ...
10: ...Albrect failing to pay his ransom within the stipulated time, the Hansa surrendered Stockholm to Marga...
12: ...try should retain exclusive possession of its own laws and customs and be administered by its own dign...
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