A History of the World (98 page)

independence (1947)
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independence campaign
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Mughal empire
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Muslim-Hindu conflicts
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,
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partition of
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salt tax revolt
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and Second World War
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war between Mughals and Marathas
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Indian Mutiny (1857)
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Indian National Congress
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,
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indigenous peoples
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,
see also
aboriginal Australians; native Americans

Indonesia
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indulgencies
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Indus
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industrial revolution
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,
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,
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factory conditions and child labour
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Germany
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,
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and Luddites
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and nationalism
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negative impact of
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positive impact of
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reasons for starting in Britain
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United States
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,
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and Watt’s steam engine
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,
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infant mortality
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Internet
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Inuit
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inventiveness
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Ionian revolt (499
BC
)
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,
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Ionic
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Iran
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war with Iraq
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Iraq
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invasion of Kuwait
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post-war
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war with Iran
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Iraq war (2003)
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Ireland
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,
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,
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Easter Rising
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Elizabethan war against
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famines
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Iron Age
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,
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,
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Isabella
see
Ferdinand and Isabella

Isis
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,
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Islam
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,
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,
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,
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and Africa
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golden age of
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origins
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splits within
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spread of and early military success
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,
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see also
Muslims

Islamism
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,
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Israel
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Israelites
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,
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,
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Italy
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,
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city-republics
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and ‘Euro-communism’
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and imperialism
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and Mussolini
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,
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,
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,
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Renaissance
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,
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unification of
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Ivan III, the Great
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Ivan IV, the Terrible
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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ivory
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Jackson, ‘Stonewall’
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Jacobin Club
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Jacobins
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,
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Jacobite rebellion (1745)
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Jagiellon dynasty
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,
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Jahan, Shah
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Jahangir
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Jamaica
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James, C.L.R.
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James I ( James VI of Scotland), King
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,
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,
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,
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‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’
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James II, King
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,
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,
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,
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Janszoon, Jan
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Japan/Japanese
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,
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ban on smoking
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comparison with Britain
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conversion to Christianity by missionaries
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culture
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and First World War
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Hideyoshi years
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invasions of China
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,
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Meiji restoration and reform
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,
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,
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outlawing of Christianity
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Pearl Harbor attack
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peasant revolt in Kyushu (1637)
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resolving of environmental problems
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sakoku
(‘locked-country’) policy
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and samurai
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,
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samurai rebellion
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,
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,
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ships
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,
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and tobacco
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Tokugawa
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,
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and trade
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Jardine, Lisa
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Jaspers, Karl
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Java/Javanese
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,
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Jefferson, Thomas
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,
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,
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,
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Jenner, Edward
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Jeremiah
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Jericho
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,
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Jerusalem
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,
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,
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and Crusaders
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fall of to Arabs (638)
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siege of (70)
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siege of (586)
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Jesuits
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Jesus Christ
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Jews
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,
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,
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,
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and afterlife
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and anti-Semitism
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Babylonian exile
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,
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,
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expansion of communities
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,
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and Hellenistic culture
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and Holocaust
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,
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,
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,
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Maccabee revolt against Seleucid Greeks
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proselytizing
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releasing of from exile by Cyrus
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revolt against Rome
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Jiang Qing
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,
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,
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Jin dynasty
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,
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Jinnah, Mohammad Ali
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Joanna the Mad
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,
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John Paul II, Pope
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Johnson, Lyndon B.
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Johnson, Samuel
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Jones, Sir William
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Jordanes
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Josiah, King
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Joyce, James
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Judah
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Judaism
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,
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,
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,
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, 163
see also
Jews

Judas Maccabeus
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Jupiter
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Justinian, Emperor
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Kabukimono
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Kahr, Gustav Ritter von
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Kalinga
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Karakorum
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,
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Kasparov, Garry
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,
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,
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,
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Keay, John
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Keneally, Thomas
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Kennedy, John F.
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Kenya
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Kerensky, Alexander
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Kershaw, Ian
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Khasakhemwy, King
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Khazars
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,
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Kholmsky, Prince
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Khomeini, Ayatollah
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Khrushchev, Nikita
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,
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Khwarezmid empire
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al-Khwarmi, Muhammad
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Kilby, Jack
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Kim Il Sung
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King, Gregory
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King James Bible
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King, Martin Luther
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Kissinger, Henry
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Klu Klux Klan
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Knossos, palace of
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Knox, John
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Koh-i-Noor diamond
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Kongzi
see
Confucius

Koran
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Korea
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,
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Korean War
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,
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Kosovo, battle of (1389)
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Kublai Khan
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,
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,
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Kuchum Khan
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,
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kulaks
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,
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Kuomintang
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,
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Kurzweil, Ray
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Kush
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Kuwait
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Kyushu
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Lachish
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Landes, David
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Langland, William

Piers Plowman
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language
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,
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Lao Ali
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Las Casas, Bartolomé de
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,
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Las Navas de Tolosa, battle of (1212)
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Lascaux caves
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League of Nations
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Lebanon
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LeBlanc, Stephen
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Lecky, W.E.H.
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Lecouvreur, Adrienne
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Lee, Robert E.
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,
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,
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Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van
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Legalism
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Leipzig, battle of (Battle of the Nations)
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Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Leo III, Pope
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Leo X, Pope
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Leonardo da Vinci
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,
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The Last Supper
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Leonidas, King
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Leopold I, King of the Belgians
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Leopold II, King of the Belgians
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,
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,
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Lepanto, battle of (1571)
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Les Rois (France)
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Li Hongzhang
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Li Zicheng
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Licinius, Emperor
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life expectancy
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Lin Biao
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Lin Zexu
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,
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,
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Lincoln, Abraham
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,
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,
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,
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,
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assassination
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Gettysburg Address
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Linear B script
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Lisbon earthquake (1755)
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Lithuania
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Little Big Horn, battle of (1876)
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Litvinov, Maxim
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Liu Shaoqi
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,
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Livingstone, David
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,
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Lloyd George, David
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,
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Lombards
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London
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Long March (China)
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,
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longitude
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,
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Longshan culture
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,
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Lorenzo the Magnificent
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,
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Louis XIV, King of France
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Louis XVI, King of France
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,
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,
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,
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Louis XVIII, King of France
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Louis-Philippe, King of France
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Louisiana Purchase
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,
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Lovelock, James
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,
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Lu Buwei
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Luddites
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Ludendorff, General
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,
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,
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Lueger, Karl
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Luke
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,
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Lunar Society
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Luther, Martin
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background
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confrontations
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opposition to selling of indulgences
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theology and arguments of
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,
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,
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,
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translation of Bible into German
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Luxembourg
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Luxor temple
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Lydians
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Lyons, Jonathan
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Macaulay, Thomas Babington
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Maccabee revolt
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McCarthy, John
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McCartney, Lord George
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McCormick, Katharine Dexter
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,
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,
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,
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,
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