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Maori Civilization

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The Maori were the earliest settlers of New Zealand, they are well known for practising cannibalism during warfare. In October 1809, they attacked a European convict ship to revenge the harsh ...

The Thirty-eighth Parallel is latitude that separates South and North Korea. It was created after the Second World War when the soviet government led by Stalin greatly influenced the North Korea. On ...

The Hittites

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The Hittites are a group of people who spoke Indo-European language, they ruled over the land of Hatti in central and eastern Anatolia, which is modern day Turkey during the second millennium. They ...

Cabriolet

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A light 2-wheeled one-horse carriage with a folding leather hood, a large apron, and upward-curving shafts.

Witch-hunt

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Is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft (magic or sorcery, normally associated with the devil). The classical period of witch-hunts in Europe and North America falls into the Early Modern ...

Historical criticism

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Historical criticism is the art of distinguishing the true from the false concerning facts of the past. It has for its object both the documents which have been handed down to us and the facts ...