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aspect of Pasupata has been found among the remains of the Indus Valley Civilization, leading to speculation that Siva may be an ancient indigenous deity...

Lothal was one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Located in the state of Gujarat in India, it was discovered in 1954...

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Lothal was one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Located in the state of Gujarat in India, it was discovered in 1954...

Lothal was one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Located in the state of Gujarat in India, it was discovered in 1954...

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resulting spread of Greek culture in the east resulted in a new Hellenistic civilization, aspects of which were still evident in the traditions of the Byzantine...

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that are sufficiently original to materially alter the direction of civilization. Milton is one of those very few people." In his 1962 book Capitalism...

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(1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837) sought to depict nature as a "divine creation, to be set against the artifice of human civilization". More......

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the 1700's. Among other things, it was once the capital of the Dilmun civilization, and served more recently as a Portuguese fort. For these reasons, it...

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developed along its five rivers as early as the ancient Indus Valley civilization, dating back to 3000 BCE, followed by migrations of the Indo-Aryan peoples...

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the national governments of the world (the exact year is unstated). Civilization has stagnated due to the loss of scientific knowledge and industry during...

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forcefully converted and pacified, disregarding the achievements of their civilization. The first contact between the Maya and European explorers came in the...

property owner's consent. Its origin can be traced back to ancient civilizations such as the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece. Graffiti originally was...

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difficult because there are few text sources. However, highly-developed civilizations flourished at various times and places, such as the Andean Inca and...

contributed to the flourishing of Greek civilization in the 5th century BC. He warned, however, that Western civilization is now imperiled by powerful, advertising-driven...

history, the church has had a large role in the development of Western civilization. Catholic communities are present worldwide through missions, immigration...

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Laputa: Castle in the Sky won the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 1986. Human civilizations had built flying cities which were later destroyed by an unspecified...

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island nations in the Indian Ocean. Home to some of the most ancient civilizations in the world, India was formally ruled by the British for almost 90...

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Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520. The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was...

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Yokoo to design its artwork, which depicted the cityscape of an advanced civilization with elements inspired by Eastern subterranean myths, Afrofuturism, and...

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and political institutions of Ancient Greece and on the Ancient Greek civilization, and to gain understanding of the nature of myth-making itself.Greek...

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Lothal was one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Located in the state of Gujarat in India, it was discovered in 1954...

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satisfactorily with the natural systems upon which all human life and civilizations depend. We must recognize that the natural systems of which we are part...

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impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization. — Al Gore, giving a speech at NYU Law School in 2006...

Oladevi, a deity whose worship may have originated in the Indus Valley Civilization, was honoured and feared as the goddess of cholera in rural Bengal? ...

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built up our national strength and prestige, accepting and adding to our civilization the art and science of the West. Now, I believe, the time has come for...

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Achaemenid Empire. Alexandria became an important center of Hellenistic civilization and remained the capital of Ptolemaic Egypt and Roman and Byzantine Egypt...

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countries it subsumed within its empire (especially Ancient Egypt) or of civilizations which its empire bordered (e.g. the Sassanid Empire). The Romans were...

to live as they wish 'in the path which merely concerns themselves', civilization cannot advance; the truth will not, for lack of a free market in ideas...

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present day, Joan of Arc has remained a significant figure in Western civilization. From Napoleon onward, French politicians of all leanings have invoked...

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spiritual beliefs, and styles of social organization. Some of these older civilizations had long faded by the time of the first European arrivals and have been...

the political center-right, whose roots run deep in the history and civilization of the European continent and has pioneered the European project from...

impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization. — Al Gore, giving a speech at NYU Law School in 2006...

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planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic...

Sahara Desert and are sparsely inhabited. Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the Giza pyramids...

Ancient 3400–539 BC Kura-Araxes culture (3400–2000 BC) Proto-Elamite civilization (3100–2700 BC) Elamite dynasties (2700–540 BC) Akkadian Empire (c.2334...

colony and lunatic asylum that is employed as a dumping ground by far-off and superior civilizations. ” — Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great (2007)...

“ ...the book remains the carrier of civilization, the voice of the individual. ”...

commercial distribution? ...that settlements across the Indus Valley Civilization were the first to have an oven within each mud-brick house by 3200 BC...

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Museum including an exquisite “Quran Gallery”, Indus Civilization artifacts, Gandhara Civilization Sculptures, Islamic Art, Miniature Paintings, Ancient...

Aquatic toxicology Body of water Hydraulic civilization Limnology Riparian zone River valley civilization River cruise Sacred waters Surface water Wild...

Museum including an exquisite “Quran Gallery”, Indus Civilization artifacts, Gandhara Civilization Sculptures, Islamic Art, Miniature Paintings, Ancient...

regimentation, as the essential aspects of life, as the constructive forces of civilization, until the subservience of individual to state, society, economic machinery...

Islamic Ceramics Museum of Modern Art in Egypt National Museum of Egyptian Civilization Museum of Tal Basta Antiquities Nubian Museum Oceanographic museum in...

Commune, they exclaim, intends to abolish property, the basis of all civilization! Yes, gentlemen, the Commune intended to abolish that class property...

fatherland since 1810. The fatherland is freedom, is the order, wealth, civilization organized in the native ground under its teaching and in its name. —...

and the Sinagua cultures inhabited the state. However, all of these civilizations mysteriously disappeared from the region in the 15th and 16th centuries...

in an earlier age, was eternal salvation; the "collapse of bourgeois civilization" used to be called the Last Judgment. ” — Oswald Spengler, "Prussianism...

to live as they wish 'in the path which merely concerns themselves', civilization cannot advance; the truth will not, for lack of a free market in ideas...

Comprehension of the anarchist ideal grows in slave and master alike as modern civilization grows. Despite the ends to which the latter has thus far been turned...

factor enabling the emergence of city-based societies at the start of civilization because it was one of the first crops that could be easily cultivated...

Valley Civilization. Mohenjo Daro was one of the world’s first cities and contemporaneous with ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. It is...

varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilizations rise...

Maya of Tabasco consider themselves the direct descendents of the Olmec civilization? ... that Raul Macias, a Cuban-Mexican boxer parlayed his popularity...

you ignore any suggestion outside Africa and holding that the present civilization, which some of the big powered are boasting of, sprang up from Africa...

to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys. These valleys...

romantic reaction-nostalgic consecration of a disappearing stage of civilization. "Romantic is a term of condescending defamation which is easily applied...

Museum including an exquisite “Quran Gallery”, Indus Civilization artifacts, Gandhara Civilization Sculptures, Islamic Art, Miniature Paintings, Ancient...

The Dayuan (in Ferghana) was one of the three advanced civilizations of Central Asia around 130 BCE, together with Parthia and Greco-Bactria, according...

The Dayuan (in Ferghana) was one of the three advanced civilizations of Central Asia around 130 BCE, together with Parthia and Greco-Bactria, according...

Valley Civilization. Mohenjo Daro was one of the world’s first cities and contemporaneous with ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. It is...

Somerset Maugham SS Mauna Loa Maximian Murray Maxwell May Revolution Maya civilization Early life and military career of John McCain John McCain Bill McCann...

satisfactorily with the natural systems upon which all human life and civilizations depend. We must recognize that the natural systems of which we are part...

American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. The story was set in the United...

published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon. 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created...

Laputa: Castle in the Sky won the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 1986. Human civilizations had built flying cities which were later destroyed by an unspecified...