Outlines of HistoryLongman Rees Orme Brown and Green, 1830 - 461 pàgines |
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... tribes of fish , were the commencement of vegetable and animal life . A violent revolution of nature annihilated these incipient creations , and their remains combined with other sub- stances to increase the stone of the earth . In the ...
... tribes of fish , were the commencement of vegetable and animal life . A violent revolution of nature annihilated these incipient creations , and their remains combined with other sub- stances to increase the stone of the earth . In the ...
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... tribes with woolly hair and sable skin that people the African continent . Yet many tribes can with difficulty be brought under any one of these divisions : the endless variety of Nature is as apparent in the human race as in the animal ...
... tribes with woolly hair and sable skin that people the African continent . Yet many tribes can with difficulty be brought under any one of these divisions : the endless variety of Nature is as apparent in the human race as in the animal ...
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... tribes , led to conquest by the descendants of Chingis Khan . This line , which reigned from A.D. 960 to 1280 , dis- tinguished itself by the encouragement of the arts and sciences ; it cultivated relations with Japan , fostered trade ...
... tribes , led to conquest by the descendants of Chingis Khan . This line , which reigned from A.D. 960 to 1280 , dis- tinguished itself by the encouragement of the arts and sciences ; it cultivated relations with Japan , fostered trade ...
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... tribes that surrounded it , and sometimes conquered by them . The city is stated to have been built in the most remote ages by the god Bel , and to have been enlarged and adorned by Semiramis , probably also a mythic personage . In the ...
... tribes that surrounded it , and sometimes conquered by them . The city is stated to have been built in the most remote ages by the god Bel , and to have been enlarged and adorned by Semiramis , probably also a mythic personage . In the ...
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... tribes of the desert , did homage to his power . But the glory was transient : in the reign of his son the Babylonian dominion sank , never to rise , beneath the arms of the Medes and Persians . The Assyrian empire on the Tigris and the ...
... tribes of the desert , did homage to his power . But the glory was transient : in the reign of his son the Babylonian dominion sank , never to rise , beneath the arms of the Medes and Persians . The Assyrian empire on the Tigris and the ...
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Outlines of History: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Thomas Keightley Visualització completa - 1831 |
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