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Japanese for 'divine wind'. The term was first applied to the typhoons that scattered the Mongol invasion fleets at Hakataka Bay, Kyushu, in 1274 and 1281. The word was later (and more familiarly) ...

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty (KGB)

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Literally Committee for State Security. The name of the Soviet political police from 1954. The KGB was responsible for the harsh internal security system of the Soviet Union and external espionage; ...

Harun al-Rashid

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Abbasid caliph (r.786-809) who strengthened the religious character of his office and established Baghdad as a centre of artistic patronage. Al-Rashid led armies against the Byzantines, penetrating ...

Tribute

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Etymology: Middle English tribut, from Latin tributum, from neuter of tributus, past participle of tribuere to allot, bestow, grant, pay, from tribus tribe. 1. a. a payment by one ruler or nation to ...

Dictatorship

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A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) 1 a State ruled by a dictator. 2 the position, rule, or period of rule of ...

Gupta empire

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Indian dynasty, rulers of the northeastern state of Magadha, who extended their sway across the north and east of the subcontinent from AD 320 until the mid-6th century. It was founded by ...

Punic Wars

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The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. The main cause of the Punic Wars was the fight of interests between the existing Carthaginian Empire ...