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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]], or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a [[Qadi...
4: ... appellation '''Shams ad-Din''', a title or honorific at times given to the names of scholars particul...
6: ...as the ''Rihla'', or "Journey". Whilst apparently fictional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as co...
13: ...which was relatively safe, and he embarked on the first of his detours. Three commonly used routes exi...
15: ...meluks), having encountered a holy man during his first trip who prophesied that Ibn Battuta would onl... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the relatively passive ...
7: ... [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Car...
11: ... East was always be too long and difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic ...
15: ...cient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time giving European sailors some idea of the ... - North Africa (3562 bytes)
16: The [[Maghreb]] (also called [[Northwest Africa]] or [[Tamazgha...
18: ...ons of the [[Middle East]], not being part of the Maghreb. In addition, the [[Sinai Peninsula]] of Egypt is...
22: ...s. The Berbers are the indigenous people in the [[Maghreb]], and are believed to have come from the east. T...
26: ...Unicode|Mizrāḥ}]]. Today, less than fifteen thousand remain in the region, though they r... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
19: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Arabic language|Arabic]]
21: ...r language|Berber]], [[French language|French unofficial but commonly used in administration]]
62: ...n [[Hafsid]]s, and Moroccan [[Merinid]]s. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, [[Spain]] started...
64: ...Mediterranean resulted in the [[First Barbary War|First]] and [[Second Barbary War]] with the [[United...
66: ...period: literacy dropped massively, while land confiscation uprooted much of the population. - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
14: ...ns. From the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] or before, the Egyptians [[Mining|mi...
16: ...e roots of the [[Scientific method#History|Scientific method]] may be traced back to the ancient Egypt...
25: ...2900 BC|2900 BCE]] - [[Senet]], world's oldest confirmed [[board game]]
53: ...AO/bswbao0804ancient.html] from the [[1st century|first]] or [[2nd century|second century]] found in t...
55: ...chievements. Certain artifacts and records do not fit with conventional technological development syst... - French language (40201 bytes)
19: ...er including second language speakers. It is an official or administrative language in various communi...
27: ...f the entire Gallic region for both mercantile, official and educational reasons, yet it should be rem...
60: ...owing a period of unification, regulation and purification, the French of the 17th to the 18th centuri...
62: ...f foreign words and expressions. Some recent modifications include the change from ''software'' to ''...
66: ..., the future of specific "regional" accents is difficult to predict. - Coast (8529 bytes)
3: The '''coast''' is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ...
5: Coast is a very specific term and is only applied to that part of an isla...
7: ...social policy reasons. This is usually because defining lands as part of a coast may be seen to have ...
21: ..." of France. Similarly islands may refer to specific coasts such as the "North Sea Coast" of the Unit...
23: ...ic disadvantage with overseas trade being more difficult; sometimes being forced to go to extravagent ... - Middle East (6318 bytes)
3: ...s a subregion of [[Africa-Eurasia]], or more specifically, [[Asia]], and sometimes [[North Africa]].
6: Most definitions of Middle East in established dictionaries...
15: The term ''Middle East'' defines a cultural area, so it does not have precise b...
17: The countries of the [[Maghreb]] ([[Algeria]], [[Libya]], [[Morocco]], and [[Tun...
21: ...r changing definitions. Before the [[World War I|First World War]], ''Near East'' was used in English...
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