Ancient Pueblo People, or Ancestral Puebloans is a preferred term for the cultural group of people often known as Anasazi who are the ancestors of the modern Pueblo peoples. The ancestral Puebloans were a prehistoric Native American civilization centered around the present-day Four Corners area of the Southwest United States. Archaeologists still debate when a distinct culture emerged, but the current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, sugge ...

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Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egypt - Geography, Ancient Egypt - People, Ancient Egypt - History, Ancient Egypt - Government, Ancient Egypt - Language, Ancient Egypt - Writing, Ancient Egypt - Literature, Ancient Egypt - Culture, Ancient Egypt - Ancient achievements, Ancient Egypt - Timeline, Ancient Egypt - Open problems, Ancient Egypt - Notes

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Archaeological findings show that nomadic hunter-gatherers lived along the Nile during the Pleistocene. Traces of these early peoples appear in the form of artifacts and rock carvings along the terraces of the Nile and in the oases. By about 6000 B.C., organized agriculture and large building construction had appeared in the Nile Valley. Many theories have been proposed regarding the origins of these early Egyptians, but the most widely accepted today based on the continuum of scientific evidence is that prehistoric Egyptian society was form ...

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How is the Mayan Long Count to be explained? Why did this ancient people, that were the most mathematically advanced of their day, choose to use a chronology that consisted of thirteen different periods of 144,000 days each, starting on August 11, 3114, BC and ending on December 21, AD 2012? On a more fundamental level three different types of answers have been given to this question, a materialist, a spiritual and what might be called a pseudo-spiritual, answers that are linked to different world views. In the materialist world view the astronomical, physical cycles are seen as primary to the spiritual whereas in the spiritual world view they are seen as secondary.

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Ancient Egypt was a civilization along the Lower Nile, reaching from the Nile Delta in the north as far south as Jebel Barkal at the time of its greatest extension (15th century BC). It lasted for three millennia, from circa 3200 BC to 343 BC, ending with the conquest of Alexander the Great. As a civilization based on irrigation it is the quintessential example of a hydraulic empire. Ancient Egypt - Geography. Most of Egypt is in North Africa; though the Sinai Peninsula is in Southwest Asia. The coun ...

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Brutus is a Roman cognomen used by several politicians of the Junii family, especially in the Roman Republic. Brutus - Ancient Romans with this name. For the Brutus who was the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins, see Marcus Junius Brutus. Other notable ancient Romans with this cognomen include: Tiberius Junius Brutus — rebel; son of Lucius Junius Brutus Titus Junius Brutus — rebel; son of Lucius Junius Brutus Gnaeus Junius Brutus — first plebeian Jun ...

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In compiling the history of ancient Israel and Judah, there are many available sources, including the Jewish Tanakh (partially the Old Testament, it also consists of the book of the prophets, and the five books of Moses) and other Jewish texts such as the Talmud, the Ethiopian book of history known as the Kebra Nagast, the writings of historians such as Nicolaus of Damascus, Artapanas, Philo of Alexandria and Josephus, other writings, and archaeological e ...

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A Briton, in broad terms, is an inhabitant of the geographical region of Great Britain[1][2][3]. The usage of the term is sensitive in some areas, particularly those relating to the Irish people and the Scottish people, and can vary in exact meaning depen ...

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The Sakas are a peoples that lived in what is now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iran, Ukraine, and Altai and Siberia in Russia, in the centuries before 300 AD. They are considered to be a branch of Scythians by most scholars. Saka is the usual Persian term, while Scythian is a Greek term. Some of their neighbours included the Sarmatians, Issedones and Massagetae. Their language is poorly known, but seems to have originally been a member of the Iranian family (though some question wheth ...

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This article is about the city of Cremona. For the Italian mathematician see Luigi Cremona. Cremona is a city in Northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left shore of the Po river in the middle of the Pianura padana (Po valley). It is a small city and the capital of the province of Cremona. Cremona - History. Cremona - Ancient city. Cremona was originally a settlement of the Cenomani, a Gaul tribe. The today's city was founded in 218 BC by the Romans as ...

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The following is a timeline of the history of China: For a summary table of the dynasties in Chinese history and their dates, check here. Timeline of Chinese history - Ancient China. Note: dates prior to 841 BCE are provisional and subject to dispute. History of China, History of the Republic of China, History of the People's Republic of China, Chinese sovereign, Dynasties in Chinese history, Table of Chinese monarchs (very ...

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does not include companies or organizations Adobe Illustrator (.ai)(AI), as the file extension for the native file format and abbreviation of this application Artificial intelligence (AI), intelligence exhibited by any manufactured system, likely the most common usage Ay, a pharoah of Ancient Egypt (which can also appear as Ai), Ái, the husband of Edda and putative ancestor of the thralls or serfs in the Norse eddic poem Rígthula, .ai< ...

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. The history of Hinduism begins around 7,000 years ago and continues till the dawn of the Gupta Empire in India, and the organized, written records and preservation of important historical documents. Hinduism was synthesized in these misty centuries, from the ancient Indo-Iranian Vedic religion, the religious and philosophical practices of the peoples of the Indus Valley Civil ...

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The University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln) is one of the oldest Universities in Europe and, with over 47,000 students, is one of the largest institutions of higher education in Germany. School of Management, Economics and Social Sciences School of Law School of Medicine School of Philosophy School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Sc ...

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Archaeological cultural units such as "Anasazi", Hohokam, Patayan or Mogollon are used by archaeologists to define material culture similarities and differences that may identify prehistoric socio-cultural units which may be understood as equivalent to modern tribes, societies or peoples. The names and divisions are classificatory devices based on theoretical perspectives, analytical methods and data available at the time of analysis and publication. They are subject to change, not only on the basis of new information and discoveries, but al ...

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Ancient Pueblo Peoples, Ancient Pueblo Peoples - Anasazi as a cultural label, Ancient Pueblo Peoples - Cultural divisions, Ancient Pueblo Peoples - Reference

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The term "Anasazi" was established in archaeological terminology through the Pecos Classification system in 1927. Archaeologist Linda Cordell discussed the word's etymology and use: "The name "Anasazi" has come to mean "ancient people," although the word itself is Navajo, meaning "enemy ancestors." It is unfortunate that a non-Pueblo word has come to stand for a tradition that is certainly ancestral Pueblo. The term was first applied to ruins of the Mesa Verde by Richard Wetherill, a rancher and trader who, in 1888-1889, was ...

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In ancient times, the Chinese referred to the peoples to their south collectively as the Yue. Historical texts often refer to the Hundred Yue tribes (Chinese: 百越; Hanyu Pinyin: bǎi yuè; Vietnamese: Bách Việt). Historian Lo Hsiang-lin has suggested that these peoples shared a common ancestry with the Xia. There is little evidence, however, that the Yue peoples held any common identity. The "Treatise of Geography" in Han Shu ...

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Precautionary Note: These ethnic names were culled from a variety of ancient and mediaeval sources dating from the middle of the 1st millennium BC to the early 2nd millennium AD. They do not necessarily represent contemporaneous, distinct or Germanic-speaking populations. The peoples referenced do not necessarily have common ancestral populations. Some identities closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes. Some may not have spoken Germanic at all, but were bundled by the sources with ...

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List of Germanic peoples, List of Germanic peoples - Ancient, List of Germanic peoples - Contemporary

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Ndi Igbo ("the Igbo people") are a heterogeneous society, with its clans migrating to their current locations at different times. However, the core Igbo, from which most of the culture, traditions, and religion come from, can trace their origin to the village of Nri, located in present day Anambra State, which was founded by its progenitor, Eri, around 900 AD. From this village, Nri people spread all across what is now considered Igboland, mixing with its i ...

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Igbo people, Igbo people - Origins and Ancient History, Igbo people - Pre-Colonial Life, Igbo people - Post-Colonation, Igbo people - Igbo Women's War of 1929, Igbo people - Instability and Biafra Succession, Igbo people - Notable people, Igbo people - Notes

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