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| The imperila dynasty of china from about 1126 to 255 bc |
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| Was the anncient city of Greek |
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| king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC |
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| A loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur, e.g., in eastern China and the American Midwest |
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| Dry , grass - coverd plains |
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| Four collections of scarced writings produced by the Aryans during an stage of their settlement in India |
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| Salvation through the union of Atman with Brahma ; moksha. |
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| the hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt anddelivered the Law during their years of wandering in thewilderness. |
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| a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and laterspreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeastAsia, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and thatthe way to end this suffering is through enlightenment thatenables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths towhich one is otherwise subject. |
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| the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established thefirst centralized imperial government and built much of the GreatWall |
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| the ancient Roman state from 509 BC until Augustus assumedpower in 27 BC; was governed by an elected Senate butdissatisfaction with the Senate led to civil wars that culminated ina brief dictatorship by Julius Caesar |
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| a tragedy (1600?) by Shakespeare. |
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| a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to1200 b.c. |
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| any of the social divisions into which Hindusociety is traditionally divided, each caste having its ownprivileges and limitations, transferred by inheritance from onegeneration to the next; jati. Compare class |
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an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey |
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the people traditionally descended from Jacob; the hebrew
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| was ageographically extensive Iron Agehistorical power in ancient India |
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| is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher |
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| was a classical GreekAthenian philosopher. |
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| is the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD. |
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| is an important political theory in Chinese history. |
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| is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey. |
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| is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle |
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| a modern port city on the north central coast of Crete. |
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| fourth son of the Biblical patriarch Jacob (Israel) |
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| is a common surname of Indian origin |
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| is a traditional Chinese philosophical concept concerning the legitimacy of rulers |
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| was aClassical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy inAthens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. |
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| influence in theancient world from 323 BC to about 146 BC (or arguably as late as 30 BC). Hellenistic civilization was preceded by the Classical Hellenic period, and followed by Roman ruleover the areas Greece had earlier dominated – even though much of Greek culture, religion, art and literature still permeated Rome's rule, whose elite spoke and read Greek as well as Latin. |
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| was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour. |
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| A member or descendantof the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European |
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| Also called Bustu, Gautama , Gautama Budda |
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| Biblical name of Palestine |
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| Obligation or liability to make such payment. |
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| A large landmass , as Greenland , that is smaller than any of the usally recognized continent. |
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| Greek philosopher pupil of plato ; tutor of Alexander the great. |
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| Any wind that changes directions with the seasons. |
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| a large, widespread family of languages, the survivingbranches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic,Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half theworld's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek,Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, andHittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family |
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| A person who is intellectually or socially aloof. |
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| The act of enlightenment . |
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| An incidental in such an agreement. |
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