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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...m]] ([[1st century BC|100 BC]]) and the forced imposition of a common system of writing by the Qin emp...
7: ...unded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...grapher of the [[2nd century BC]], begins perhaps 1300 years earlier with an account of the [[The Three ...
22: ...d as the last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC).
24: ...ynasty|Xia]] and the [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] can possibly refer to political entities that existed at ... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
11: *[[Aaron]], (ca. 1300 BC), [[Bible|Biblical]] figure
16: ...Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - Actinium (7046 bytes)
96: ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#ff99cc" | Most stable isotopes
143: ... word actinium comes from the Greek ''aktis, aktinos'', meaning beam or ray.
146: ...nium fluoride with lithium vapor at about 1100 to 1300?C.
149: ...electron capture]]. It has a half-life of 69 [[nanoseconds|ns]]. Actinium also has 2 [[meta state]]s.
161: ...http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/89.html Los Alamos National Laboratory - Actinium] - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...ion'' of European culture in general. Thus it is possible to speak of the Renaissance in two different...
19: ...nded. The starting place of the Renaissance is almost universally ascribed to Northern Italy, especial...
23: Another possible starting point is the [[fall of Constantinop...
32: ...y of the same people were involved; there was a close community of people involved in both movements. ...
36: ...icism was applied to literature and the arts. In most city-republics there was a small clique with a c... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...', "The Great Treatise"). It was preserved, like most of Classical Greek science, in Arabic manuscript...
7: In this work, one of the most influential books of Antiquity, Ptolemy compiled...
9: ...ers of the Roman and ancient Persian empire, but most of his sources beyond the perimeter of the Empir...
11: ... He put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Islands.
16: ...emy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered by [[Maximus Pla... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...It survived as an independent state until about [[1300 BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a dev...
29: ...ed to this southern area of Egypt because of the hospitable climate and environment. Now exceptionally...
35: ... and were invaded by [[Indo-European]]s and [[Hyksos]] Semites. They defeated the invaders around 1570...
50: ...out in the hot sand. This left the body looking most un-lifelike, and not a very suitable home for th...
52: ...about this substance is that it is highly ''[[hygroscopic]]'': it will draw and absorb moisture. Durin... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
13: ...tween rulers and even overlapping dynasties. The possibility of a calendar reform called ''Menophres E...
17: ...ronology which is dependent on the era of Menophreos dating. [[Ashur-uballit I]] and [[Akhenaton]] wer...
21: ...[carbon-14]], dated that the boat of Pharaoh [[Sesostris III]] about 3,621 years before c. 1950 CE.
27: ...CE'', the chronology of ancient Egypt rests on a host of unproven assumptions. "There is a surprising ...
29: ...lace on the first day of the seventh year of [[Sesostris III]] of the [[twelfth dynasty of Egypt|Twelf... - Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
2: ...aycan) is a country in the [[Caucasus]], at the crossroads of [[Europe]] and [[Southwest Asia]], with ...
54: ...arding the origins of the name "Azerbaijan." The most common theory is that it is derived from "Atropa...
75: ...ave (largely Armenian-populated). Azerbaijan has lost 16% of its territory, and must support some 800,...
98: ...nfall can be as high as 1300 mm (51 inches). For most of the country, the wettest periods are in sprin...
103: ...nts for one-third of Azerbaijan’s economy. Most of the nation’s farms are [[irrigation|irr... - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
1: ...ng of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]] and the most widely recognized [[pyramid]] in the world. Thou...
9: The most widely accepted estimate for its date of complet...
15: ...mestone casing stones most of which were shaken loose by a massive earthquake in the 14th century and ...
17: ...f [[Lincoln Cathedral]] was completed in around [[1300]]CE. The accuracy of work is such that the four s...
22: ...y an Arab [[Sultan]] in 1356CE in order to build mosques and fortresses in nearby Cairo. - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
6: Most of the [[geography of Egypt]] is in [[North Afri...
14: ...ent in Egypt, such as accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them (kn...
16: ...matical formularizations]], in the form of the [[Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri]]. An awareness ...
30: * [[2600 BC|2600 BCE]] - [[Pyramid of Djoser]], world's earliest known large-scale stone bui...
33: ...ructures|world's tallest structure]] until [[1300|1300 CE]] - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
7: ...e and contributed greatly to its adoption as the most commonly used metal. The arrival of iron use in ...
15: ...h]]. The technologically superior Bantu spread across southern Africa and became rich and powerful, pr...
21: ...asus]] in the late [[2nd millennium BC]] (circa [[1300 BC]]). From here it spread rapidly throughout the...
24: ...ic examination, this kind of iron came from [[aerosiderite]] .
41: ...Ananjino Culture]] are sometimes found. The Asbestos-Ceramic remains a mystery, because there are othe... - Memphis, Egypt (1908 bytes)
1: ...ypt]] from its foundation until around [[1300s BC|1300 BC]]. The ruins are 19 km (12 miles) south of [[C...
5: ...r the surrounding settlements. It was still an imposing set of ruins in the [[12th century]] but soon ...
7: ...amesses II]]. The [[Saqqara]] [[necropolis]] is close to Memphis. - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
9: ...t, with unison voice and natural declamation, is most common.
14: ...cred]] and [[secular music|secular]], although almost no early secular music has survived, and since [...
17: ...act on the subsequent history of European music. Most of the surviving notated music of the 13th centu...
19: ...imultaneously. Many scholars, citing a lack of positive attributory evidence, now consider "Virty"'s...
27: ...n Milan, [[Ambrosian chant]], named after St. Ambrose, was the standard. Celtic chant was used in Ire... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
108: ...f" colspan="2" | [[celestial body's atmosphere|Atmospheric]] characteristics
110: ! align="left" | [[Atmospheric pressure]]
131: | [[Phosphine]]
145: ...iter from a [[brown dwarf]], although the latter possesses rather specific spectral lines, but in any ...
154: ! Stationary, retrorad || Opposition|| Stationary, prograd|| Conjunction to sun - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
15: ...les weigh from 400 to 600 [[kilogram|kg]] (900 to 1300 lbs) and occasionally exceed 800 kg (1750 lbs). F...
22: It is the most completely carnivorous member of the [[bear]] fa...
24: ...ned, not mainly by [[hunting]], but by [[habitat loss]] caused by [[global warming]]; for example, the... - Giant Panda (7693 bytes)
19: ...bivorous]]. They eat shoots and leaves, living almost entirely on [[bamboo]]. Pandas are also known to...
21: ... mating, the female is in a crouching, head-down position as the male mounts from behind. Copulation ...
27: ... true bears and part of the Ursidae family. Its closest bear relative is the [[Spectacled Bear]] of [[...
29: ... [[endangered species]], threatened by continued loss of [[habitat]] and by a very low birthrate, both...
32: ...epicted reclining peacefully eating bamboo, as opposed to hunting, also adds to its image of innocence... - Religion (72319 bytes)
17: ...those that affirm the existence of one God, and those that affirm the existence of many gods.
19: ...[[atheism]], [[objectivist philosophy]], and [[agnosticism]], which do not appeal to authority or pers...
21: ...taining knowledge. It is typically rejected by those people, religious and non-religious, who see met...
37: *Development of a purpose in life, and the identification of appropriate g...
39: *Beliefs regarding other possible states of being like [[heaven]], [[nirvana]]... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French [[civil war]] ...
5: ...new monarchies. It is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in [[medieval warfare]].
10: ...wever, in [[1216]], the Anglo-Normans lost their possessions to France. English nobles in the [[14th c...
17: ...y. Another effect of the war was to galvanize opposition to Edward II among the English lords of Aqui...
21: ... III, being the nephew of King Charles, was his closest living male relative and was the only survivin... - Medieval Inquisition (8204 bytes)
7: ... were the first mass heretical organization that posed a serious threat to both the authority of the C...
11: ...unning the inquisitions, as would be the case in post-medieval inquisitions. Thus there were different...
13: ... bull]] entitled "''Ad abolendam''," "For the purpose of doing away with." The inquisition was in resp...
15: ...ystematic, keeping detailed records. Some of the most useful medieval documents from the Middle Ages i...
19: ...eveloped a number of procedures to discover and prosecute heretics. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...Boğazk?n north-central [[Turkey]]), through most of the second millennium BC.
14: ... it. Shortly after this, [[Archibald Sayce]] proposed that the Anatolian Hatti was identical with the...
32: The early Hittites, whose prior whereabouts are unknown, borrowed heavily ...
34: ... be used in the Hittite kingdom for religious purposes, and there is substantial continuity between th...
43: ... home, and the Hittite Empire was plunged into chaos. The [[Hurrians]], a people living in the mountai...
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