A History of the World (95 page)

Booth, John Wilkes
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Boston Tea Party (1773)
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Boswell, James
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Botany Bay
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Boudicca, Queen
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Boulton, Matthew
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Bourbons
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Boxer Rising (1898–1901)
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Boyle, Robert
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Brahmi script
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brain, human
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Brezhnev, Leonid
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Britain
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agriculture
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American colonies
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and American War of Independence (1776–81)
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colonization of Africa
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comparison with Japan
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and Corn Laws
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and Cromwell’s republic
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decline in power
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defeat of by Saint-Domingue
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and First World War
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free press
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and Great Reform Act (1832)
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and imperialism
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in India
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and industrial revolution
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invasion of by William of Orange (1688)
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and Napoleonic Wars
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as naval and trading power
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Neolithic
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Norman conquest
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opium trade
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and Opium Wars
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Parliament
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politics and industrialization
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population
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railways
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and Second World War
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and Seven Years War
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slave trade
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tea addiction
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and tobacco
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wool trade
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see also
English Civil War

bronze, invention of
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Bronze Age
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Brown, John
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Bruno, Giordano
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Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
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Buddhism
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Bulgaria
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Bulgars
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bull leaping, Minoan
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Bullock, Alan
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bureaucracy

Chinese
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German
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burials

ancient China
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Neolithic
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Burke, Edmund
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Burton, Richard
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Bush, George W.
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Byblos
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Byzantium
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art
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collapse and fall of Constantinople
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comparison with China
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court procedures and rituals
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extent of empire
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founding
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Fourth Crusade against
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religion and spirituality
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use of ‘Greek fire’
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and Vikings
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Caesar, Julius
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assassination (44 bc)
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and calendar
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and Cleopatra
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conquest of Rome
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defeat of Pompey
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destruction of Gauls
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growth in cult of
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military campaigns
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political career
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Caesarion
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Cairo
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Cajamarca (Peru)
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calendar

Celtic
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and French Revolutionaries
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Mayan
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naming of days of the week
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Roman
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Caligula, Emperor
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Calvin, John
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Cambodia
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camels, domestication of
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Cameron, Verney Lovett
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Canaan/Canaanites
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canals

British
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Chinese
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Canary Islands

Spanish colonization
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Cannae, battle of (216
BC
)
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cannibalism

and Neanderthals
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Cantor, Norman
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Cape Verde islands
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capitalism
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car, development of
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carbon dioxide emissions
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Caribbean
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Carnegie, Andrew
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Carthage
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Casement, Roger
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Castleden, Rodney
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Castro, Fidel
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Catalhoyuk
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Catherine the Great
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Catholics/Catholicism
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Counter-Reformation
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and Spanish Inquisition
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cave art
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Ceau¸sescu, Nicolae
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Celts
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Central Intelligence Agency
see
CIA

CFC gasses
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Chandragupta
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Chang, Jung
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Chaplin, Charlie
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chariots
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West African
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Charlemagne
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Charles I, King
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Charles II, King
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Charles II of Spain
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Charles V, Emperor
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Charles X, King of France
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Chartists
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Châtelet, Émile du
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Chernenko, Konstantin
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chess
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Cheyenne
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Chiang Kai-shek
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children

employment of in factories
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Chile
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Ch’in dynasty
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China, ancient
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agriculture
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architecture
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attempts to control flooding by first dynasty
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and Buddhism
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burials
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canal system
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cities
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civil war
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and Confucius (Kongzi)
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and Da Yu
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dynasties
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Han
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human development
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internal conflict and semi-anarchy after breakup of Han state
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and Legalism
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links with Roman Empire
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mythical emperors
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religion and religious rites
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rituals
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Shang dynasty
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and smallpox
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Xia dynasty
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and Zheng
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Zhou dynasty
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China (modern)
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arrest of Gang of Four (1976)
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and Boxer Rising (1898–1901)
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and bureaucracy
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Communist-Nationalist conflict
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comparison with Byzantium
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Cultural Revolution
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economic growth
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and God Worshippers
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Great Leap Forward
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gunpowder invention
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and industrialization
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inventions
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Japanese invasions
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Long March
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Manchu conquest and rule
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Mandate of Heaven
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and Mao Zedong’s
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Marco Polo’s travels to
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military forces
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Ming dynasty
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Mongol conquest of and rule
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navy
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opium trade
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and Opium Wars
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Qing dynasty
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Rape of Nanking (1938)
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relations with Soviet Union
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relations with United States
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and Second World War
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Song dynasty
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and Taiping Rebellion (1850–64)
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Tang dynasty
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Tiananmen Square protest (1989)
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trade with Muslims
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under Deng Xiaoping
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Yuan dynasty
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China Welfare Fund for the Disabled
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Chinese, origins of
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Chinese Communist Party
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Chittor, siege of (1567–8)
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Christianity/Christians
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advancement of by Constantine
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conversion of the Rus
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and Crusades
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growth and spread of
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Lutheran
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and martyrdom
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missionaries
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Muslim coastal slave-taking
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outlawing of in Japan
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and Romans
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spread of by St Paul
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triumph of
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Chronicle of Past Times
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Churchill, Sarah (Duchess of Marlborough)
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Churchill, Winston
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CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
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Cicero
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cities

ancient China
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ancient India
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birth of first
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city-states, Greek
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