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| ARTICLES RELATED TO 1450 BC | | | |  1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Colombia - GeographyLocated in the North of South America (4 00 N, 72 00 W) and part of Caribbean South America. The only South American country with coast in both oceans (Atlantic or Caribbean Sea with 1,760 km and Pacific Ocean with 1,448 km. Borders: North with the Caribbean Sea (sea borders with Jamaica, Haiti and Dominican Republic). West with Panama (225 km) and sea borders with Costa Rica both in the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean and Guatemala. South wit ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Colombia - Politics Colombia is a republic where the executive branch dominates government structure. Up until recently, the president was elected together with the vice-president by popular vote for a single four-year term, which functioned as both head of government and head of state. However, on October 19, 2005 the Colombian Congress amended the constitution, which now allows Colombian presidents to serve up to two consecutive four-year terms.
Colombia's bicameral parliament is the Congress of Colombia or Congreso, which consists of the 166-se ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Colombia - Economy After experiencing decades of steady growth (average GDP growth exceeded 4% in the 1970-1998 period), Colombia entered into a recession in 1999, and the recovery from that recession was long and painful. Colombia's economy suffers from weak domestic and foreign demand, austere government budgets, and serious internal armed conflicts. The IMF Economic Indicators published on September 21, 2005, forecast the Colombian GDP to reach US$112,300,000,000 in 2005. Inflation has been below 6% for 2004 and 2005, and is expected to remain below 5% duri ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Colombia - Demographics Colombia has a diverse population that reflects its colourful history and the peoples that have populated her from ancient, to colonial and modern times. The historic amalgam of three main groups: Amerindians, Spanish colonist/European immigrants, and imported African slaves, are the basis of Colombia's current demographics. This miscegenation has created a racial and ethnic continuum; an order characterized by fluidity and ambiguity in which any claims of inclusion withi ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Hurrians - Notes Note 1: Güterbock, Hans Gustav: "Hittite Religion"; in Forgotten Religions: Including Some Living Primitive Religions (ed. Vergilius Ferm) (NY, Philosophical Library, 1950), pp. 88–89, 103–104
Note 2: Suggested by Jane Lightfoot in the Times Literary Supplement 22 July 2005 p 27, in her account of Philippe Borgeaud, Mother of the Gods: from Cybele to the Virgin Mary, ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - List of disasters - Natural disasters
List of disasters - Prehistoric disasters.
The Snowball Earth hypothesis.
The Toba eruption about 75,000 years ago.
Various extinction events, some of an undetermined nature.
Impact events.
Great prehistoric floods, many brought on by rising sea levels and melting glacial dams at the end of the most recent ice age
List of disasters - Classical antiquity disasters.
Thera volcanic eruption of 1650-1450 BC caused tsunamis in t ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Minoan civilization - Culture Minoan men wore loincloths and kilts. Women wore robes that were open to the navel and had short sleeves and flounced skirts. The patterns on clothes emphasized symmetrical geometric designs.
The statues of priestesses in Minoan culture and frescoes showing men and women participating in the same sports (usually bull-leaping) lead some archaeologists to believe that men and women held equal social status, and that inheritance might even have been matrilineal. The frescos include many depictions of people, with the sexes distinguished by colour: the men's skin is reddish-brown, the women's white. The colour ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Minoan civilization - Politics In Minoan art, women vastly outnumber men (see archaeologists Goodison and Morris, 1998, p. 115). Women are shown seated on thrones, and in commanding positions. Women are often saluted by people and/or animals. Whereas depictions exist of men showing deference to women, not one shows women deferring to men. Unlike their contemporaries, who possessed obvious “strong-man” male rulers, the Minoans show almost no trace of male rule at all.
"In Minoan imagery ... female figures seem preeminent. Males, to be sure, appear on frescoed wa ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Minoan civilization - Religion The Minoans worshipped goddesses, (see Rodney Castleden, Minoans, 1994; Goodison and Morris, Ancient Goddesses, 1998; Nanno Marinatos, Minoan Religion, 1993; etc.). Although there is some indication of male gods, depictions of Minoan goddesses vastly outnumber depictions of anything that could be considered a Minoan god. There seem to be several goddesses including a Mother Goddess of fertility, a Mistress of the Animals, a protectress of cities, the household, the harvest, and the underworld, and more. Some would argue ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Minoan civilization - Technology The Minoan cities were connected with stone-paved roads, formed from blocks cut with bronze saws. Streets were drained and water and sewage facilities were available to the upper class, through clay pipes.
Minoan buildings often had flat tiled roofs; plaster, wood, or flagstone floors, and stood 2-3 stories high. They would construct the lower walls of stone and rubble and use mudbrick for higher el ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Minoan civilization - Palaces The first palaces were constructed at the end of the Early Minoan period in the third millenum BC (Malia). While it was formerly believed that the foundation of the first palaces was synchronous and dated to the Middle Minoan at around 2000 BC (the date of the first palace at Knossos), scholars now think that palaces were built over a longer period of time in different locations, in response to local developments. The main ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Minoan civilization - Agriculture The Minoans raised cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, and grew wheat, barley, vetch, chickpeas, cultivated grapes figs, olives, and grew poppies, for poppyseed and perhaps opium. The Minoans knew domesticated bees, and adopted pomegranates and quinces from the Near East, though not lemons and oranges as is often imagined.
Farmers used wooden plows, bound by leather to wooden handles, and pulled by pairs of donkeys or oxen.
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - List of disasters - Other man-made disasters
List of disasters - Nuclear disasters.
Windscale, United Kingdom (October 7, 1957)
Three Mile Island, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (March 28, 1979)
Chernobyl nuclear power-plant disaster, Chernobyl, Ukraine (April 26, 1986)
See also List of nuclear accidents
List of disasters - War disasters.
An attack with much collateral damage may be considered a disaster, such as the attack on KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945, the worst or perhaps seco ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Minoan civilization - Geography and climate Crete is a mountainous island with natural harbors. There are signs of earthquake damage at Minoan sites.
Homer recorded a tradition that Crete had 90 cities. The site at Knossos was the most important one. Archeologists have found palaces in Phaistos and Malia as well. The island was probably divided into four political units, the north being governed from Knossos, the south from Phaistos, the central eastern part from Malia and the eastern tip from Kato Zakros. Smaller palaces have been found in other places. It is remarkable that none of ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Minoan civilization - Chronological history The oldest signs of inhabitants on Crete are ceramic Neolithic remains that date to approximately 7000 BC. See History of Crete for details.
The beginning of its Bronze Age, around 2600 BC, was a period of great unrest in Crete, but it also marks the beginning of Crete as an important center of civilization.
Around 1700 BC there was a large disturbance in Crete, probably an earthquake, although an invasion from Anatolia has also been suggested. After that, population increased again, and the palaces ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Minoan civilization - Theories of failure There is evidence that the trade networks collapsed, and that Minoan cities perished by famine. The Minoans' grain supply is believed to have come from farms on the shore of the Black Sea.
Many scholars believe that ancient trading empires were in constant danger from uneconomic trade, that is, food and staple goods were improperly valued relative to luxury goods, because accounting was undeveloped. The result could be famine and decline in population.
One theory of Minoan collapse is that increasing use of iron tools impoverished the Minoan traders. When the trade networks ceas ...
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| | | | | 1450 BC: Encyclopedia II - Santorini - Minoan Akrotiri Excavations starting in 1967 at the site called Akrotiri under the late Prof. Spyridon Marinatos have made Thera the best-known "Minoan" site outside of Crete, the homeland of the culture. The island was not called Thera at the time. Only the southern tip of a large town has been uncovered, yet it has revealed complexes of multi-level buildings, streets and squares, with remains of walls standing as high as 8 meters, all entombed in the solidified ash of the famous eruption of Thera. The site was not a palace-complex such as are found in Cre ...
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