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Ottoman Empire
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Empire built by Anatolian Turkish tribes. It lasted from the 14th century until 1922. The ruling dynasty was established in about 1300 by Osman, who instigated nearly 200 years of expansionary wars. ...
Okinawa
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Japanese island group in the Ryukyu Islands and scene of the greatest land battle of the Pacific War during World War II. American forces under General Bruckner landed on 1 April 1945 to begin a ...
Obsidian
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Volcanic glass with flaking properties similar (but superior) to flint, widely used and highly valued for toolmaking in many parts of the world, notably in Mesopotamia, where long-distance trade in ...
Ibn Battuta
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Ibn Battuta was a Berber Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla (lit. "Journey"). Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of ...
Hussein, Saddam
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(1937-2006) Iraq's dictator and fifth president. On 16 July 1979, Saddam Hussein became chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, the decision making body in Iraq before the 2003 ...
Ice Ages
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The cold phases of the Pleistocene epoch, a period of extreme oscillation in global temperatures with corresponding extensions and contractions of the polar ice sheets. The long-accepted sequence of ...
Huns
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Turkic nomadic pastoralist peoples from central Asia who moved westward into Hungary in about AD 372, causing many Germanic tribes in eastern Europe to flee to the Roman empire. They forced the Roman ...
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