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- Egypt (18830 bytes)
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21: | '''Other widely spoken languages'''
27: | '''[[President of Egypt|President]]'''
36: ...- Total (2003) <br /> - [[Population density|Density]] - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...300 BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society has existed for much long...
10: ...span of about three millennia. There is a recommended revision of the chronology of Egypt.
27: ...ociety]] (see [[Nile#History|Nile: History]]). Evidence of [[pastoralism]] and cultivation of [[cereal...
29: ...there must have realized the benefits of a more sedentary life. Scientific analysis of the remains of ...
31: ...stract&list_uids=12495079]; reveals also that ''modern day'' Egyptians "''reflect a mixture of [[Europ... - Old Kingdom (5401 bytes)
2: ...wed by a period of disunity and relative cultural decline referred to by Egyptologists as the [[First ...
8: ...0]]–[[2611 BC]]) of the Third Dynasty who ordered the construction of the first pyramid (the [[P...
10: It was in this era that formerly independent ancient Egyptian states became known as [[Nome ...
12: ==Golden Age: the Fourth Dynasty==
14: ...ingdom and its royal power reached their zenith under the [[Fourth dynasty of Egypt|Fourth dynasty]], ... - First Intermediate Period of Egypt (2409 bytes)
2: ...riod (sometimes abbreviated as 'FIP') can be considered to embrace the [[Seventh dynasty of Egypt|Seve...
4: ...tion in the [[Nile]] floods over two or three decades, caused by a global climatic cooling which reduc...
6: ...(or possibly [[Nitocris]]). He was 6 when he ascended the throne and believed to have been 100 years o...
8: ...on of the Two Kingdoms fell apart and regional leaders had to cope with the famine.
10: ... their capital in [[Herakleopolis Magna]], descended from a Pharaoh named [[Akhtoy]]. In the meantime... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
5: ...] [[Mentuhotep II]] from [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] defeated the last king of the [[Tenth dynasty of Egy...
6: ...Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
8: ...s a palace coup by Amenemhat that resulted in the death of Mentuhotep IV.
10: ...es lasted throughout the Twelfth dynasty and provided great stability.
14: ...centralized government though) and established trade connections with Nubia and a war seems to be cond... - New Kingdom (2574 bytes)
3: ... Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]], and was succeeded by the [[Third Intermediate Period of Egypt|Thir...
4: ...Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
5: ...ught [[Hittites|Hittite]] armies for control of modern-day [[Syria]].
7: ...], Egyptian art flourished and attained an unprecedented level of realism.
9: ...talli II]] and was caught in history's first recorded military ambush. Ramesses II was famed for the ... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ... River|Amazon]] still remains the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reaso...
24: ...lthough the lake itself has feeder rivers of considerable size from the other [[Great Lakes (Africa)|G...
26: ...Abyad, or the [[White Nile]], from the clay suspended in its waters. From there, the river flows to [...
32: ...[[:Image:Nile River and delta from orbit.jpg|Nile delta]])]]
40: ...he Nile in Sudan, looking north across the Sahara Desert towards Lake Nasser and Egypt. Photograph IS... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ...al_us_presdent.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ...he United States|federal government]] and [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States armed forces|a...
5: ...he President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invok...
7: ...lated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] of government.
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
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5: | order=1st President
8: | preceded=None
9: | succeeded=[[John Adams]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Adams
4: | order=2nd President
7: | preceded=[[George Washington]]
8: | succeeded=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
11: | dead=dead - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
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4: | order=Third President
7: | preceded=[[John Adams]]
8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]] - James Madison (15187 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Madison
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg|thumb
4: | order=4th President
7: | preceded=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
8: | succeeded=[[James Monroe]] - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Monroe
4: | order=5th President
7: | preceded=[[James Madison]]
8: | succeeded=[[John Quincy Adams]]
11: | dead=dead - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
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5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>8th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[William Henry Harrison]]</td></...
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</td></tr> - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
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4: ...t:center">[[image:Seal_us_presdent.jpg|200px|Presidential Seal]]</div></td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>10th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[James Knox Polk]]</td></tr> - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ... of the United States|Vice President]], serving under [[James K. Polk]].
5: ... 13]], [[1831]] to [[March 3]], [[1833]], when he declined to be a candidate for reelection. He was c...
7: ...lected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket in [[1844]] with [[James K. Polk]]...
9: ...om [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, and died there. He is interred in St. Pete...
11: ...[Rhode Island]]. He is also the uncle of [[Alexander Dallas Bache]]. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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10: | '''Order:''' || 16th President
15: | '''Predecessor:''' || [[James Buchanan]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]] - Continent (6440 bytes)
2: ...king Alexandria as a [[prime meridian]], they divided the ''oikoumene'' or habitable earth into three ...
13: Geographers and historians find it useful to define larger land masses connected with a [[land br...
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19: ...the Americas. These land masses are usually considered [[supercontinent]]s rather than continents, th...
21: ...inent. In the same manner, historians may subdivide Africa-Eurasia into Eurasia-[[North Africa]] and ... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ...ntry's capital was ended, and it fell into a long decline, which by the late [[Ottoman]] period had se...
5: ...|right|Alexandria's state-of-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated ...
16: * The modern city from [[1798]] (red).
19: ...in. Alexander's seers, and in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that...
21: ...t the foundation, but are thwarted when Alexander descends in a glass box, and armed with exact knowle... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...an]] is important to understanding the origin and development of [[Western Civilization]].
9: The term ''Mediterranean'' derives from the [[Latin]] ''mediterraneus'', 'inlan...
11: ...eer''. In [[Turkish language|Turkish]], it is ''Akdeniz'', "the white sea".
17: ...whereas the Black Sea is generally not. The man-made [[Suez Canal]] in the south-east connects the Med...
19: [[Tide]]s are very limited in the Mediterreanean as a re...
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