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111MESOPOTAMIA — The original article in the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica traced Mesopotamian history to its earliest beginnings and provided a detailed survey of Mesopotamian literature and institutions. With the availability of such tools as J.… …
112Uluburun shipwreck — The Uluburun Shipwreck is a well documented late 14th century BC shipwreck of the Late Bronze Age period, discovered off the south coast of Turkey in the Mediterranean Sea near the city of Kaş in the province of Antalya. A Turkish sponge diver… …
113Syria — The region located along the eastern Mediterranean coast and bordered by southeastern Anatolia in the north, northern Palestine in the south, and northwestern Mesopotamia in the east. This remarkably strategic location made Syria a busy and… …
114Culture of Asia — The culture of Asia is human civilization in [Asia]. It features different kinds of cultural heritage of many nationalities, societies, and ethnic groups in the region, traditionally called a continen from a Western centric perspective, of Asia.… …
115Viking expansion — The Vikings sailed most of the North Atlantic, reaching south to North Africa and east to Russia, Constantinople and the middle east, as looters, traders, colonists, and mercenaries. Vikings under Leif Eriksson, heir to Erik the Red, reached… …
116Greek diaspora — The Greek diaspora ( el. ελληνική διασπορά, elliniki diaspora ) is a term used to refer to the communities of Greek people living outside of the traditional Greek homelands worldwide, but more commonly in southeast Europe and Asia Minor. Members… …
117Iberian Peninsula — The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe, and includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small part of France. It is the westernmost of the three southern European peninsulas (the… …
118Age of Discovery — The Age of Discovery or Age of Exploration was a period from the early 15th century and continuing into the early 17th century, during which Europeans explored the world by ocean searching for trading partners and particular trade goods. The most …
119Syro-Hittite states — The states that are called Neo Hittite, or more recently Syro Hittite, were Luwian, Aramaic and Phoenician speaking political entities of the Iron Age northern Syria and southern Anatolia that arose following the collapse of the Hittite Empire… …
120History of Spain — The History of Spain spans the period from Prehistoric Iberia, through the rise and fall of the first global empire, to Spain s current position as a member of the European Union. Modern humans entered the Iberian Peninsula more than 35,000 years …
