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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and ... - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ltiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ...ed outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes...
7: ...nese Civil War]] in [[1949]] established the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) in [[1949]] which ha...
18: ...] and [[Xiongnu]]. As the PRC now governs [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and the ROC now g...
21: ... or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition. - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...hand-knotted pile carpet probably originated in [[Mongolia]] or [[Turkestan]] between the 4th and 2nd millen...
10: ...aka double cloth, two-ply, triple cloth, or three-ply).
12: A '''hooked rug''' is a simple type of rug handmade by pulling strips of cloth ...
14: ...e of the weave at a perpendicular angle. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of th...
16: ...all coverings. Production was improved with the application of the Jacquard mechanism (see [[Jacquard ... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...eviously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christopher Columbus]],...
3: The Age of Exploration was rooted in new technologies and ideas g...
5: ==Exploration by land==
6: ...ccurate world maps prior to the age of European exploration]]
7: ... between Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city ... - Asia (16910 bytes)
14: ...eek language|Greek]] term given originally to the plains of [[Ephesus]] in [[Anatolia]], and later to ...
42: * [[Afghanistan]], [[Mongolia]], and the western regions of [[China]] are also ...
54: Sometimes the nations of [[Mongolia]] and [[Vietnam]] are also included in East Asia.
83: * The [[Iranian Plateau]], containing [[Iran]] and parts of other na...
118: |[[Unemployment]] - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
3: ...country]], [[state]], [[nation state]] for some explanation of the difference between these.
68: ...a continent in the 5 continent systems, called simply Asia in one of them.
81: * [[China, People's Republic of]] - [[Beijing]]
86: ...ng]], [[Special Administrative Region|SAR]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]
99: ...au]], [[Special Administrative Region|SAR]], [[People's Republic of China|China]] - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
36: <tr><td>[[Beijing]] <td>[[People's Republic of China]], see also [[Capital of Chi...
217: <tr><td>[[Ulaanbaatar]] <td>[[Mongolia]] - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...urope]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], and the [[Central Asia|Ce...
70: ...by a series of [[nomad]]ic nations. Following the Mongolian invasion in the early 13th century, administrati...
76: ...ailway]] from [[Orenburg]] to [[Tashkent]] was completed in 1906, and the movement was overseen and en...
84: ... mass demonstrations by young ethnic Kazakhs took place in [[Almaty]] to protest the methods of the [[...
91: ... standards. The prime minister, who serves at the pleasure of the president, chairs the Cabinet of Min... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...ia]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Laos]], [[Mongolia]], [[Nepal]], [[North Korea]], [[Pakistan]], [[Ru...
4: ...s those areas as parts of itself, an eternally complete and indivisible country. This claim is controv...
7: {{People's Republic of China infobox}}
10: ...ticles: [[History of China]], [[History of the People's Republic of China]], [[Timeline of Chinese his...
13: ...October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zedong]] declared the People's Republic of China, establishing a [[communist ... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...ia]]. Landlocked and mountainous, it borders [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[T...
52: ...d in the northeastern part of what is currently [[Mongolia]]. Later, some of their tribes migrated to the re...
54: ...ry draft on the Kyrgyz and other Central Asian peoples, caused many Kyrgyz to flee to China.
58: ...d [[Kyrgyz alphabet]] was introduced, which was replaced by [[Latin script]] in [[1928]]. In [[1941]] ...
72: ...[[referendum]] asking for a renewed mandate to complete his term of office. He received 96.2% of the v... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
3: == People named U ==
45: ...aga, Tana]], (born 1973), New Zealand rugby union player
57: ...tary commander, [[History of independent Mongolia|Mongolian]] warlord
59: ...|Unitas, Johnny]], (1933-2002), American football player - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
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18: ...pterosaur]]s, and the aquatic [[ichthyosaur]]s, [[plesiosaur]]s, and [[mosasaur]]s.
20: ...keley.edu/diapsids/avians.html]. The widespread application of [[cladistics]], which rigorously analyz... - Desert (21206 bytes)
8: ... erosion. Because deserts are dry, they are ideal places for human artifacts and fossils to be preserv...
16: ...ccurate description of what a desert is. For example, [[Phoenix, Arizona]] receives less than 250 mil...
18: ...ferent from the simple definition of a desert: a place where evaporation exceeds precipitation.
20: ...freezing year-round, rendering the land almost completely lifeless.
22: ...a moderating, effect in environments where it is plentiful. In some parts of the world deserts are cr... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hy)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? thus making neighboring time zones one ho...
6: ...T]]) is still often used (by the [[BBC]], for example, amongst others) to denote the "base time" to wh...
10: ...for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
18: ...he location is one day later or earlier. Some examples:
31: ...til [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to the isl... - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...ic tribes]] coming from areas now in modern day [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]].
5: ...cale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with ...
20: ...ina, the Wall was of no strategic value as the people who the Wall was intended to keep out were rulin...
22: ...er of being attacked by brigands. Because many people died while building the wall, it has obtained th...
24: ... locations the Wall is in disrepair, serving as a playground for some villages and a source of stones ... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...and [[army]] was built, with four masted ships displacing 1,500 tons and a standing army of one millio...
10: ...o be subordinated by the scholar bureaucracy. Simply put, maintaining a strong military was essential...
14: ...or nearly a century under the Yuan dynasty were replaced by the Han Chinese. The traditional [[Imperia...
16: ...ve body under past dynasties, after suppressing a plot for which he had blamed his chief minister. Wh...
20: ...ommendations to the throne), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records. - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
7: ...ast missing railroad link on the Silk Road was completed in [[1992]], when the international railway c...
11: ... separated populations developed rapidly. For example, the [[dromedary]] may have been domesticated as...
13: ...without arousing the hostility of more settled peoples.
16: ...dence that [[Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptian]] [[explorers]] may have originally cleared and protected ...
23: ... in Lebanon stone vessels. Other scenes in his temple depict [[Syria]]n bears. The [[Palermo Stone]] a... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
16: ...- [[Politics of the People's Republic of China|People's Republic of China]] - [[Politics of the Republ...
47: ...itics of Monaco|Monaco]] - [[Politics of Mongolia|Mongolia]] - [[Politics of Montserrat]] - [[Politics of Mo... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
25: * [[January 9]] - Planned launch date of [[New Horizons]]
37: ...country)|Georgia]], [[Russia]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Mongolia]])
42: ... [[Breakpoint (party)|Breakpoint]] 2006 will take place in [[Bingen]]
59: ...planet)|Mercury]] makes the first of two [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] flybys.
67: ... [[Prime Minister of Canada]] [[Paul Martin]] has pledged in April 2005 to call the [[39th Canadian fe...
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