A History of the World (96 page)

civil engineering
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Cixi, dowager empress
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Claudius, Emperor
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clay tablets
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Cleisthenes
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Cleitus, General
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Clement IV, Pope
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Cleopatra
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and Antony
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and Caesar
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suicide
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climate change
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,
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and collapse of Roman Empire and Han China
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and early agriculture
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and emergence of first cities
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and origins of humans
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Clive, Robert
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,
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Code Napoléon
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Coeur-de-Lion, Richard
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coinage

Britain
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Lydian
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Cold War
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Coligny Calendar
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Colossi of Memnon
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Colossus machines
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Colton, Frank
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Columbus, Christopher
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Communism
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fall of (1989)
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Communist Manifesto, The
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computers
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Comstock Act (1873)
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Comstock, Anthony
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Confucianism
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Confucius (Kongzi)
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Congo

annexation of by Leopold II of Belgium
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Congo Reform Association
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Conrad, Joseph
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Constantine the Great
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Constantine VII
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Constantine XI Palaeologus, Emperor
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Constantinople
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fall of to Turks (1453)
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sacking of by Fourth Crusaders
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Continental Congress
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contraception
see
birth control

convicts

transportation to Australia
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Cook, Captain James
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,
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Copernicus, Nicolaus
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,
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Corday, Charlotte
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Córdoba
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Corinth
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Corn Laws
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Cortés, Hernando
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Cossacks
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Counter-Reformation
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Courthope, Nathaniel
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cowpox
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Crassus
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,
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Crete
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Crimean War
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Cripps, Stafford
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Crispus
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Critias
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Cro-Magnons
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Croesus, king of Lydia
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Cromwell, Oliver
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crossbows
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Crusades/Crusaders
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,
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Fourth (1202–4)
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Cuba
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Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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Culloden Moor, battle of (1746)
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,
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Cultural Revolution (China)
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,
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,
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Custer, General George
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customs unions
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Cyprus
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Cyrus, King
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,
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Czechoslovakia
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and Prague Spring (1968)
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Da Yu (‘Great Yu’)
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daimyo
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,
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Damascus
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,
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Dandolo, Enrico
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Daniel, Book of
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Danton, Georges
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Daoguang, Emperor
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Daoism
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Darby, Abraham
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Darius III, King
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Darius, King
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Darwin, Charles
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Darwin, Erasmus
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David, Jacques-Louis
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Davis, Jefferson
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Davy, Humphry
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Dawkins, Richard
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days of the week, naming of
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de Gaulle, General
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death rate
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Decembrists
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Declaration of Emancipation (US)
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,
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decolonization
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Deep Blue computer
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,
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,
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Deep Thought computer
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deforestation
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Deir el-Medina
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Delian League
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demes
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democracy
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,
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,
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,
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Athenian
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,
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as a culture
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expansion in twentieth century
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relationship between prosperity and
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Deng Pufang
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,
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,
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Deng Xiaoping
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,
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,
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Denisovans
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Denmark–Norway
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Dessalines, Jean-Jacques
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détente
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,
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dhamma
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Diamond, Jared
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,
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,
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Dickens, Charles
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dictatorships
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Dido of Tyre (Elissa)
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Diesel, Rudolf
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Diggers
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Diocletian
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Dionysus
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Djenne
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Djerassi, Carl
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DNA
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dogs, early domestication of
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Dorians
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,
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Dowden, Richard
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Drake, Francis
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drama, Athenian
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Dreyfus affair
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Dutch
see
Netherlands

Dutch East India Company
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Dyer, General Reginald
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Earth

early history
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moving around the Sun discovery
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,
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East India Company
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,
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,
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Eastern Europe
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,
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impact of Black Death on
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and second serfdom
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Eaton, William
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economic crisis (2010–12)
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Edict of Toleration (313)
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Edison, Thomas
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Edo ( Japan)
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Egypt, ancient
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,
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,
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and Alexandria
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art
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and Cleopatra
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,
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,
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,
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conquest of by Arabs (642)
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craftsmen
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culture
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monuments and temples
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and Nile
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,
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,
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Ptolemaic
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,
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self-sufficiency of
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Upper and Lower
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village life
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Egypt (modern)
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,
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Einstein, Albert
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Eisenhower, Ike
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El Cid
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El (god) 632

El Niño (500)
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Elamites
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Elizabeth I, Queen
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,
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,
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Ellis, Havelock
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Emancipation Proclamation (US)
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,
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,
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enclosures
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energy, alternative forms
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Engels, Friedrich
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England
see
Britain

English Civil War
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,
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,
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Enlightenment
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,
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environment
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Eratosthenes
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Eridu
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,
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Erlitou
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Ethical Cultural Society
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Ethiopia
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,
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,
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Etruscans
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Euclid
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eunuchs
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Euphrates river
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Eurasia
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,
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Euripides
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euro
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Europe
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,
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,
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comparison with India
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enmities and rivalries within
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impact of Black Death
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and imperialism
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isolation of early
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and Peasant Rebellion (1524–5)
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secrets of later success
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tribal migrations
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see also
individual countries

European Economic Community (EEC)
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European Iron and Steel Community
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European Union
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,
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Eusebius
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,
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Evans, Sir Arthur
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Eve, Mitochondrial
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exploration/explorers
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factories
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Factory Acts
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Fagan, Brian
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,
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Faiyum mummy portraits
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famines
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Faraday, Michael
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farming
see
agriculture

Fascism
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,
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Fatehpur Sikri
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Fausta
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Fenby, Jonathan
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Feng-Hsiung Hsu
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,
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Ferdinand and Isabella
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,
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Fertile Crescent
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fertilizers
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,
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feudal system
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Figes, Orlando
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First World War (1914–18)
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,
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causes
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German U-boat campaign
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,
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and Russia
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,
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‘Zimmerman telegram’ and US entry into
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Five Pecks of Rice movement
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Flannery, Tim
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Flood
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floods/flooding
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,
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,
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,
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Florence
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Ford, Henry
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Fordism
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Four Hundred
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Fourth Crusade (1202–4)
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France
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,
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,
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,
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alliance with Habsburgs
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and American War of Independence
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,
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aristocracy
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and Bourbons
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,
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,
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Code Napoléon
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colonization of Africa
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Fronde
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,
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and Haitian Revolution
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and Napoleon
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,
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,
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post-Napoleonic monarchy
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Second Republic
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and Second World War
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,
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Franco, General Francisco
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,
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François I, King of France
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Franklin, Benjamin
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,
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