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- Indus Valley Civilization (23571 bytes)
2: ... '''Harappa''' or '''Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley''', in reference to its first excavated ci...
5: [[Image:Indus Map.jpg|350px|thumb|Map of the Indus Valley Civilization]]
7: ... of modern-day [[India]] and [[Afghanistan]]. The Indus Civilization is among the world's earliest civili...
9: ...e been found, mainly in the general region of the Indus River in Pakistan.
11: ...dried up, running parallel and to the east of the Indus. The dried-up river beds overlap with the [[Hakra... - Indus River (3223 bytes)
1: ...of the river vary between 2900 and 3200 km. The [[Indus Valley Civilization]] had some of the earliest ur...
3: [[Image: Indus.jpg|thumb|300px|The Indus River in northern [[Pakistan]], near the rock Aor...
7: ...glong Kangri]] and [[Gangdise Shan]] ranges. The Indus then flows northwest through [[Gilgit-Baltistan]]...
25: The Indus is one of the few rivers in the world that exhibi...
27: ...volume, the largest ''exotic river'' (one that mainly flows through country from which it receives no ...
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]]
246: ...g of [[Persian Empire|Persia]] to sail down the [[Indus River]] and around [[Arabia]] to [[Egypt]] - Seal (device) (5951 bytes)
8: ...led [[letters secret]]. Seals are no longer commonly used in this way, except for ceremonial purposes...
18: [[Indus Valley Civilisation]], rectangular seals were use...
23: ...ting. Even in modern times, seals are still commonly used instead of handwritten [[signature|signatur... - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...uating, human activity. Anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the universal...
10: ...ternal [[logic]] and [[value]]s; but rather that only a single standard of refinement suffices, agains...
21: ... conditions. Anthropologists view culture as not only as a product of biological evolution but as a su...
23: ...erial culture''' and '''symbolic culture''', not only because each reflects different kinds of human a...
45: ...nthropologists understand "culture" to refer not only to [[consumption goods]], but to the general pro... - Asia (16910 bytes)
52: * [[China]], but sometimes only the eastern regions
62: * In [[Indochina|mainland Southeast Asia]], the countries [[Myanmar]], [...
66: ...y the [[South China Sea]], and thus has both a mainland and island part.
76: ...e Western term ''[[Middle East]]'', which is commonly used by Europeans and Americans. ''Middle East''...
92: ...''Economy of Asia'''</big><br><small>During 2003 unless otherwise stated</small> - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
57: ...], 80 km southwest of [[Sukkur]], was center of [[Indus Valley Civilization]], 2600 BCE – 1800 BCE]]
59: ...sroads of history. Pakistan was the site of the [[Indus Valley civilization]] and was subsequently conque...
79: ...ory. An estimated 1 to 5 million Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and others lost their lives as a direct consequen...
132: ...although (because of the [[Pressler amendment]]) only a few were eventually supplied. However, China c...
138: ...r Soviet allies, [[Libya]] and [[Syria]] are the only two middle eastern countries with whom Pakistan ... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...]-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the territory of the present [[Greece|Greek s...
15: ...ges|dark age]]" from which no primary texts, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondar...
50: ...Athens enrolled all the island states and some mainland allies into an alliance, called the [[Delian L...
97: ...n, but many idealists from the Greek cities also enlisted. But while Alexander was campaigning in Thra...
107: ...are now [[Afghanistan]] and [[Pakistan]] to the [[Indus river]] valley, and by [[326 BC|326 BC]] he had r... - Ancient history (7857 bytes)
18: *[[Indus Valley civilization]], unified from 2600 BC - 190...
33: ... the 142 books of [[Livy]]'s ''History of Rome'' only 35 survive. Ancient history's written records ar...
67: ...l of Western Roman Empire. This date is most commonly used to denote the end of Ancient Era - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ..., [[356 BC]]–[[June 10]], [[323 BC]]), commonly known in the West as '''Alexander the Great''' o...
23: ...he coast held no major ports, so Alexander moved inland. At Pisidian [[Termessus]] Alexander humbled b...
29: ...ign (although he allowed those that wished to re-enlist as mercenaries in his imperial army). His thre...
38: ...ntinued on to conquer all the headwaters of the [[Indus River]].
41: ...forced to turn south, conquering his way down the Indus to the Ocean. He sent much of his army to [[Carma... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
6: ...ent and adoption of writing systems has occurred only variously. Once established, writing systems on ...
23: ...e undeciphered [[Proto-Elamite script]] and the [[Indus valley script]] . The status as an actual writing...
43: ...resent different languages. In practice, this is only true for closely related languages, like the dia...
47: ...lement that represents the pronunciation. Some nonlinguists distinguish between [[lexigraphy]] and [[...
49: The most important (and, to a degree, the only surviving) modern logographic writing system is ... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
5: These exchanges were critical not only for the development and flowering of the great c...
18: ...Mohenjo-daro]] in the [[Indus Valley Civilization|Indus valley]].
32: ...ctually cultivated silk (which would almost certainly have come from China) that was discovered or a t...
45: ... in the possession of the [[Dayuan]] (named "Heavenly horses"), which were of capital importance in fi...
92: ...ent West in [[1492]], [[Christopher Columbus]]'s only wish was to go to China and create another Silk ... - Caste (32815 bytes)
5: ...part of the Rig Veda (the "family books," (2-7). Only the Purusha Sukta hymn (Rig Veda 10:90) mentions...
20: ...e Brahman the privilege of reading the Veda, but only so far as it is taught and explained to them by ...
39: ...eir caste duty was to slay enemies.They were the only caste allowed to rule.
60: ...''[[Manusmriti]]'' it is asserted that there are only four varnas, which leads one to the conclusion t...
72: Unlike the Varna caste system, where one could not ch... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
31: ...rtile Crescent]], the [[Indus Valley Civilization|Indus Valley]] (namely [[Mehrgarh]] and [[Harappa]]) a...
39: ...rtation and [[shipbuilding|sea-faring]] followed only centuries later, and later our earliest [[Timeli...
52: ... [[figurine]]s of women and animals. An ancient [[Indus Valley Civilization]] emerges in [[Mehrgarh]], [[...
54: ...ere developed and used in cities throughout the [[Indus Valley]] were far more advanced than that of cont...
91: ...hat has created what may be characterized as an [[industrial society]], superseding the [[agrarian societ... - India (27950 bytes)
3: India is home to some of the most [[Indus Valley Civilization|ancient civilisations]] (and ...
5: ...imes onwards, though its contemporary use is unevenly applied due to domestic disputes over how repres...
11: ...appeared 9,000 years ago and developed into the [[Indus Valley Civilization]], which peaked between [[26t...
68: ...on Technology]] is one of India's fastest growing industries, pegged at $13 billion in revenues. Pictured...
69: ...th of a promising [[information technology | IT]] industry. - Dolphin (13554 bytes)
92: **** [[Indus River Dolphin]] ''Platanista minor''
96: Six animals in the family Delphinidae are commonly called "whales" but are strictly speaking dolphi...
128: ...he knowledge to use a tool is mostly handed over only from mothers to daughters. The technology to use...
135: .... (See external link: [http://www.accobams.org/download/articles/population/Agazzi_etal_2004.pdf Commo...
168: *[http://www.accobams.org/download/articles/population/Agazzi_etal_2004.pdf Commo... - Dentistry (9670 bytes)
22: ...kistan]], made the discovery that the people of [[Indus Valley Civilization]], even from the early [[Hara...
33: ...is not publicly run (see [[Medicare (Canada)]]); only children and the elderly can have free dental ca...
54: ...e would only take 2-3 years. It is accepted that only after 5 years of such training would the trainee... - Boto (5572 bytes)
42: ...hinese River Dolphin|Baiji]] and the [[Ganges and Indus River Dolphin]], the area populated by the boto s...
59: ....iniidae.inia.html Walker's Mammals of the World Online - Amazon Dolphins] - History of the world (21975 bytes)
12: ... River|Nile]] in [[Egypt]], and the [[Indus River|Indus Valley]]. Some peoples, such as [[Australian Abor...
14: ...different from one another that they almost certainly must have been independent in origin. At this ti...
16: ...gence of complex state societies in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece]] and central [[Turkey]]. In China, p...
39: ...as almost all of [[Eurasia]]'s landmass, missing only [[western Europe]] and [[Japan]].
48: ...o one of the most remarkable forces growing from only a few followers to become the basis of a series ... - Elephant (13277 bytes)
21: '''Elephantidae''' (the '''elephants''') is the only extant [[family (biology)|family]] in the [[orde...
44: ... of fruits, seeds and flowers. Because elephants only use 40% of what they eat they have to make up fo...
48: ...ngers" at the tip of their trunks, as opposed to only one.
55: ...atomy as well. African ivory hunters, by killing only tusked elephants, have given a much larger chanc...
56: It is possible, if unlikely, that continued selection pressure could bri... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
65: ... trading [[Mesopotamia]] (now [[Iraq]]) and the [[Indus Valley]] (now the region near India). This was th...
104: ...ted crude. Construction proceeds on several major industrial projects. Unemployment, especially among the...
113: ... is perhaps fortunate as arable land constitutes only 1% of the country. Desert constitutes 92% of Ba...
124: ...unni Arabs from Persia), Sunni Arabs (from the mainland), Ajam (Persian Shia), Indians who traded with... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...appeared 9,000 years ago and developed into the [[Indus Valley Civilization]], which peaked between the [...
20: ...e, such as Spices and Silk. Initially interested only in trade with India, the Europeans took advantag...
34: ==Indus Valley Civilisation==
36: ...cities built of brick. The language spoken by the Indus Valley people is not known; some scholars specula...
38: ...nd were vital to the civilizations throughout the Indus.
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