Sterkfontein , site of paleoanthropological excavations south of Johannesburg , South Africa , known for its Artifacts and its fossils of ancient hominins (members of the human lineage). Located in the Highveld, the site was quarried during the 20th century for its limestone deposits
Akan States , historical complex of gold-producing forest states in West Africa between the rivers Comoé and Volta (in an area roughly the coastal areas of modern republics Togo , Ghana and partially corresponds to Ivory Coast) . Their economic, political, and social systems
Pazyryk , Scythian Burial site in a dry valley mouth on the Bolshoy Ulagan River Valley in Kazakhstan . The site, which consists of five large and nine smaller burial mounds and dates from the 5th to 3rd centuries v . Chr . Inherits , excavated in 1929 and 1947–49. It is perhaps
Africa in ancient times Roman history, Romes first North African territory, at times approximates modern Tunisia . It became 146 v. After destruction Carthage at the end of the acquired during the third Punic War . Britannica Quiz Destination Africa:Fact or Fiction? Is Afr
Al-Jazīrah (Arabic:island), the northern part of Mesopotamia, which is now part of the Northern Iraq is and extending into the Eastern Turkey and to the extreme northeast Syria extends . The region lies between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and is bounded on the south by a line bet
Numidia , under the Roman Republic and the Empire, a part Africa north of the Sahara , whose boundaries at times approximate those of modern West Tunisia and East Algeria . The earliest inhabitants were divided into tribes and clans. They werent physically different from the
French Congo , French Congo Français , French possessions in Equatorial Africa from 1897 to 1910, when the colonies Gabon , Central Congo (Moyen-Congo) and Ubangi-Shari-Chad were combined under this name Afrique Équatoriale Française (AEF). Thereafter the term Middle Congo was used t
Thracian Chersonese , ancient region with of the modern Gallipoli Peninsula on the European side of the Hellespont (Dardanelles in modern Turkey). It was an important wheat exporting region and was on the main trade route between Europe and Asia. One of its cities, Sestos, was located
New Hampshire Grants , in time before American Revolution , the territory that later became a state Vermont . The area was originally mapped by New Hampshire claims , and the first land grant there was made in 1749 by New Hampshires first governor, Benning Wentworth. By 1764, 131 to
Avanti , kingdom of old India , in the area of todays state Madhya Pradesh . The area was temporarily part of the historical province Malwa . Around 600 v . Chr . War the Avanti capital of Mahismati (probably modern Godarpura on the Narmada River), but was soon after Ujja
Moyen-Congo , (French:Middle Kongo), one of the four regions includes , French - Equatorial Africa , whose origins can be derived from the establishment in 1880 by the researcher Pierre de Savorgnan Brazza of a station in Ntamo. From 1934, Moyen-Congo was administered directly by the Gov
Oyo Empire , Yoruba State north of Lagos, in what is now the southwest Nigeria , which during its highlight (1650–1750) most states between the Volta flux in the west and the Niger River to the east dominated . It was the most important and most relevant of all early Yo
Srivijaya Empire , maritime and commercial kingdom that prospered between the 7th and 13th centuries, mainly in what is now Indonesia . The kingdom originated in Palembang on the island Sumatra and soon expanded its influence and controlled the Straits of Malacca . Srivijayas po
mountain , former Duchy of Holy Roman Empire , on the right bank of the Rhine, today in the administrative districts Düsseldorf and Cologne in Germany . In the 11th century, the Counts of Berg reached Westphalian territories east of Cologne. From 1161 these were divided between th
Bodo , site of paleoanthropological excavations in the Awash River Valley in Ethiopia, known for the discovery in 1976 of a 600,000-year-old skull whose shape is between Homo erectus and H. sapiens ; Many authorities classify it as a separate species H. heidelbergensis . Bod
Judea , also Judea written , or Judah , Hebrew Yehudaḥ , the southernmost of the three traditional divisions of ancient Palestine; The other two were Galilee to the north and Samaria in the center. No clearly marked border separated Judea from Samaria, but the city of Bee
German Empire , also Second Empire called , historical rich, founded on January 18, 1871 after three short, successful wars of North German State Prussia . Within seven years, Denmark Habsburg Monarchy and France been defeated. The empire did not originate in an upsur
Polish Corridor , strip of land, 32 to 112 km wide, belonging to the newly restored Polish state after the First World War Access to Baltic Sea provided . The corridor was on the lower reaches of the Vistula and consisted of West Prussia and most of the province poses (poses) that
Sardinia , also Piedmont Sardinia or Called Sardinia-Piedmont , Kingdom of the House of Savoy from 1720, centered on the areas of Piedmont (north-western Italy) and Sardinia. In 1718 by the Treaty of London among major powers, Victor Amadeus II. , Duke of Savoy and ruler of
Jaintia , in Indian history a state in Assam in the northeast India , extending from what is now the northern border between Bangladesh and India across the Jaintia Hills to the Kalong River in the Assam Plains. The people were Khasi origin. When Myanmar (Burma) invaded Assam i
Atapuerca , location of several limestone caves near Burgos in Northern Spain , known for the abundant human (genus Homo ), discovered there from 1976 Sima del Elefante (Elephants Pit) contains the earliest evidence of humans in western Europe - fragments of a jawbone and of Teeth d
The Allies, following the campaign in Tunisia (November 17, 1942-May 13, 1943), drove the Axis forces out of North Africa; the capitulation was signed in Tunis on May 13, 1943. That same day Operation Husky was decided. Churchill, privileging the peripheral attacks in unexpected zones located in the
Quintus Valerius Soranus was born around 140 B.C. in the town of Sora, a Latin municipality near Rome. Poet and grammarian, he became tribune of the plebs and wrote several works of which only a couple of verses of an elegy to Jupiter have survived. In it Valerio conceives the god as masculine and
1st Army (France 1944-1945) The 1st French Army is the name given to the military units placed under the orders of General de Lattre de Tassigny and assigned to the liberation of French territory. It was first known as the 2nd Army (December 26, 1943) then Army B from January 23, 1944. It is the