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- History of China (45919 bytes)
14: ...riod Sima Qian relates that a system of inherited rulership was established during the [[Xia Dynasty]]...
22: ...d as the last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC).
28: ... the Shang. The Zhou appeared to have begun their rule under a semi-feudal system. Nevertheless, power...
36: ...s soon as the Qin reign ended, the Qin imperial structure collapsed. The [[Qin Dynasty]] is well know...
44: ...n the midst of land acquisitions, invasions and struggles of [[consort clan]]s and [[eunuch]]s. The [[... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
11: *[[Aaron]], (ca. 1300 BC), [[Bible|Biblical]] figure - Actinium (7046 bytes)
49: | [[Crystal structure]] || face centered cubic
146: ...nium fluoride with lithium vapor at about 1100 to 1300?C. - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
7: ...pg|right|thumb|180px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the blend of art and sci...
30: ...rote that he belonged to a great age; [[Leonardo Bruni]]'s <i>Panegyric to the City of Florence</i> ex...
32: ...ne Battista Alberti]]. Of [[Filippo Brunelleschi|Brunelleschi]], he felt that he was the greatest arch...
34: ...uralism about contemporary sculpture, and highly true to life figures were being sculpted. Often bibli...
36: ...i]] felt that he had played a major part, as had Brunelleschi, [[Tommaso Masaccio|Masaccio]], etc. Eve... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
14: Ptolemy also devised and provided instructions on how to create maps both of the whole inh...
16: ...emy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered by [[Maximus Pla...
18: ...at his original topographic list cannot be reconstructed: the long tables with numbers were transmitte... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...It survived as an independent state until about [[1300 BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a dev...
8: ...different periods according to the dynasty of the ruling [[pharaoh]]. The dating of
29: ...y were [[herding]] cattle and [[construction|constructing]] large buildings.
39: ...ed something more. Thus, the Egyptians began construction of the [[mastaba|mastabas]].
41: ...l government were typically open-air temples constructed of wood or sandstone. - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
13: ...arily established lengths of co-regencies between rulers and even overlapping dynasties. The possibili...
15: ...observed that Theon explicitly stated, and [[Al-Biruni]] supported him, that the beginning of the next...
23: ...director of the archaeological programme of the [[Rutgers University]], and archeaeological correspond...
27: ...epted chronology of the Ancient [[Near East]]. We run a very real danger of debating about millimeters...
29: ...]] and his [[Book of Sothis]]. They confirm John Brug's observation that 26 BCE was the beginning of a... - Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
2: ...t on the [[Caspian Sea]]. It has frontiers with [[Russia]] in the north, [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]...
4: ...er with strong [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] rule.
65: ...Romans]], [[Arabs]], [[Turks]], [[Mongols]] and [[Russians]].
71: ...he [[Russian Empire]], Azerbaijan was acquired by Russia through the [[Treaty of Gulistan]] in [[1813]...
73: After the collapse of the Russian Empire during [[World War I]], Azerbaijan de... - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
13: == Construction ==
15: ... and the current "rough hewn" appearance of the structure is due to the removal of the polished white ...
17: ...t-West directions. These alignments are based on true North, not magnetic North. The sides of the pyra...
22: ...g projects, leaving the underlying step-pyramid structure visible. Most of the limestone casing was re...
24: ...ith optical precision many of which being off of true plane for their entire surface area by as little... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
8: ...trative divisions. The Pharaohs were known as the rulers of the Two Kingdoms, viz. upper and lower Egy...
10: ...n if [[Alashiya]] was actually the island of [[Cyprus]].
16: ...Golden ratio]] seems to be reflected in many constructions, such as the [[Egyptian pyramids]].
22: ...ffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin]
24: * [[3000 BCE]] - [[Papyrus]], world's earliest known [[paper]] - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
13: ...produced in carbon [[furnace]]s. The [[Egypt]]ian ruler [[Tutankhamun]] died in [[1323 BC]] and was bu...
17: ... wrought iron, charcoal, and glass were mixed in crucibles and heated until the iron melted and absorb...
21: ...asus]] in the late [[2nd millennium BC]] (circa [[1300 BC]]). From here it spread rapidly throughout the...
38: ... century AD]] in non-Romanised parts. Defensive structures dating from this time are often impressive,...
41: ...] (such as [[red soil]]), because its high phosphorus content can be identified in [[slag]]. Together ... - Memphis, Egypt (1908 bytes)
1: ...foundation until around [[1300s BC|1300 BC]]. The ruins are 19 km (12 miles) south of [[Cairo]] on the...
5: ...ut soon became little more than an expanse of low ruins and scattered stone. - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
9: ...d homorhythmic with a unison sung text and no instrumental support. The notation system is weak, and ...
11: ...table fashion. The use of multiple texts and instrumental accompaniment has developed by the end of t...
14: ...ation]] was a relatively late development, reconstruction of this music, especially before the [[12th ...
19: ...imately achieved the same primacy over rhythmic structure as our modern "measure") could be either "pe...
21: ...grave;ge]], [[Johannes de Grocheo]], [[Petrus de Cruce]] (Pierre de la Croix), and [[Philippe de Vitry... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
145: ...r]] 11 times that of Earth, and with a [[volume]] 1300 times that of Earth. It has been termed by many a...
158: | February 2nd, 2005 || April 3rd, 2005 || June 5th, 2005...
166: ... || August 14th, 2009 || October 13th, 2009 || February 28th, 2010
197: ...ith Io. Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest structure in the solar system.
199: ...ns 20,000 times as much energy. The sensitive instruments aboard found that the Jovian magnetic field'... - 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: ...human. Other prey include [[beluga whale]]s, [[walrus]]es and [[rodent]]s. As a pure carnivore predat...
24: ...n during the transient cooling that followed the eruption of [[Mount Pinatubo]] in [[1991]]. However, ...
26: ...olar bears have occasionally been reported. In February 2004, two polar bears in the [[Singapore Zoo]]... - Giant Panda (7693 bytes)
27: ...tic testing]] has revealed that Giant Pandas are true bears and part of the Ursidae family. Its closes...
50: ...Qinling Mountains in [[Shaanxi]] at elevations of 1300-3000 m. The typical black and white pattern of S... - Religion (72319 bytes)
21: ...e causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearance. Thi...
23: ...stitutions, creeds, organizations, practices, and rules of conduct, of all major, institutionalized re...
87: ...be particularly important and a source of Divine Truth; examples include [[Shamanism]] and some aspect...
90: ====Organizational structure ====
91: * Centralized religions develop a highly structured organization intended to develop and assure... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
8: ...hip and installing a new [[Anglo-Norman]] power structure as William took the English throne as Willia...
10: The Anglo-Normans ruled both Normandy and England for over 150 years. ...
13: ...gan in France, where the [[Capetian dynasty]] had ruled for over 320 years, with one male heir after t...
15: ...] obligated to buy her claims off (using also the rumor that Joan was a product of her mother's adulte...
25: ... to back it up. Navarre was accustomed to female rulers and had no Salic impediment. - Medieval Inquisition (8204 bytes)
7: ...]. Heretical individuals, for example [[Peter of Bruis]], had always been a challenge for the Church. ...
11: ...Pope, but there was no central top-down authority running the inquisitions, as would be the case in po...
23: ... arrived at a town it had a set of procedures and rules to identify likely heretics. First, the townsp...
29: ... the inquisition from becoming involved in local grudges. A confession under torture was not admissibl...
43: ...cal sects were quite strong and growing, but by [[1300]] the Waldensians had been driven underground and... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
5: ..., was apparently called '''Hatti''' in the reconstructed [[Hittite language]]. The Hittites should be ...
12: ...t the [[Assyria]]n colony of [[K?]] (ancient [[Karum Kanesh]]), containing records of trade between A...
15: ...dentity of the two names. He also proved that the ruins at Boğazk?ere the remains of the capital ...
17: ...h the title ''The Language of the Hittites; Its Structure and Its Membership in the Indo-European Ling...
19: ...ent work undertakes to establish the nature and structure of the hitherto mysterious language of the H...
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