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- 361: Indus Civilization
- ... under the direction of Sir John Marshall; other important settlements were surveyed by Sir Aurel Stein and N. G. Majumdar. The existence of a great civilization roughly contemporaneous with that of Sumer and of ancient Egypt soon was confirmed. Hundreds of smaller settlements have since been discovered. Recent archaeological investigation has been concentrated on documenting the beginnings of urban life in the area, and a variety of different types of sites ...
- 362: Inca Empire
- ... Sumerian (4000 BC), Egyptian (3000 BC), Minoan (2000 BC), and Babylonian (1700 BC). Later, the Greek civilization, throughout the Macedonian empire, ranged as far east as northern India and as far south and west as Egypt. Then Romans were the rulers of the whole area from Constantinopole, to Palestine and North Africa to Britain. After centuries, the Vikings, people from what is now Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, established colonies in northern ...
- 363: Imperial Telecommunications
- ... private companies to build more cables. The Zulu War of 1879 made a Trans-African cable a necessity to the British, so they paid for a cable from Durban to Zanzibar. The British invasion of Egypt required a cable from Suez to Suakin in 1882, the British protectorate claim over Nigeria required a cable to the Gold Coast in 1885, and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 required a cable from Shanghai ...
- 364: Hieroglyphic Writing
- ... Ptolemy Epiphanes which finishes with a formal instruction that this decree, engraved on a tablet of hard stone, in three scripts, hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek, shall be engraved in each of the great temples of Egypt. The honor of deciphering the hieroglyphs fell to two scholars, the Englishman Thomas Young and the Frenchman Francois Champollion who started work on it almost the same time and who were to see their efforts ...
- 365: Hegel And The National Heritag
- ... a new regime in the 1930's, and they managed to accomplish it again following their defeat in the 1940's. The rebirth of national spirit may take not a decade but many centuries. Both Egypt and China, after more than a thousand years on the sidelines of history, have become national forces to be reckoned with. In the case of China a new mission-- "Marxism" has conjoined with emerging national ...
- 366: Gcse Arab Israeli Conflict Que
- ... Israelis reasons for going to war, and the Arabs. You are told in the first paragraph that the Arab powers were threatening her (Israel) with destruction and were ready to attack her as well as Egypt had already closed the Gulf of Akaba which she knew Israel would regard as an act of war. Also, the writer states Israel could not afford to let the Arabs strike first for she was ...
- 367: Gladiatorial Contest In Rome
- ... popularity resulting in the increase of gladiatorial shows. An example of a gladiatorial show was in 46 B.C. when Julius Caesar dedicated the games to his dead daughter and the victory over Gaul and Egypt. Caesar didnt have only the traditional individual fights, but also he had fights between whole detachments of an infantry and between squadrons of cavalry who were mounted on horses and elephants. The games consisted ...
- 368: Egyptian Pyramids 2
- ... the pyramids were built, what purpose they served, the three pyramids at Giza, some messages found on the stones that were used to build pyramids, and what a mastabas is. Pyramids are tombs built for Egypt's pharaohs. Pyramids are large structures with four sides that are the shape of a triangle, that meet at the top to form a point. The ancient Egyptians used the pyramids as tombs for the ...
- 369: Early Leaders And Great Kingdo
- Cleopatra was 17 or 18 when she became the queen of Egypt. She was far from beautiful, despite her glamorous image today. She is depicted on ancient coins with a long hooked nose and masculine features. Yet she was clearly a very seductive woman. She had an ...
- 370: Engineering
- ... as the putting together of things.(Internet source, What is engineering?) This definition has summarized a profession that dates back to ancient times. Many things have been accomplished by early engineers. The great pyramids in Egypt for example are an engineering marvel still today. The massive structures look simple but they took great skill to construct. The complex ventilation systems and rooms took brilliant engineers to design. The people in that ...
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