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royal cubit -
The Temple of the Moon is an Incan ceremonial temple on Huayna Picchu near Machu Picchu -
After toppling the last rulers of the Tenth Dynasty, Mentuhotep began consolidating his power over all of Egypt. -
sailors and explorers, settling regions around the Mediterranean Sea. -
from the practice of divination -
guarded concrete barrier -
the name given to the Second Continental Congress's public act of declaring the American colonies independent from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. -
The Inca civilization is known for creating the largest empire ever seen in the Americas. -
helped Akhenaten transform the Egyptian religious landscape. -
writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. -
The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou. -
The Important Paper making, printing, gunpowder and the compass. -
The Greeks began founding colonies as far back as 900 to 700 B.C.E. -
via merchants, traders, scholars, and missionaries -
The Quran asserts that Muhammad was a man who possessed the highest moral excellence -
the huge blocks of stone previously used to erect temples and royal edifices were replaced by standard-sized stone bricks—Talatats -
Confucius was a philosopher and teacher who lived from 551 to 479 B.C.E. -
Republic began in 509 BCE when a group of noblemen overthrew the last king of Rome. -
These mortuary buildings were intended to keep and maintain the dead until their final burial was performed. -
Mayan civilization consisted of more than 40 cities, each with a population between 5,000 and 50,000. -
China's First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang -
The Han dynasty is known its long reign and its achievements. -
Republic and its laws, was a smarty pants -
Ts'ai mixed mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun. -
The collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. -
they were created by the sun god, Inti, who sent his son Manco Capac to Earth through the middle of three caves in the village of Paccari Tampu. -
Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani. Columbus renamed it San Salvador. -
portrays the female pharaoh Hatshepsut with the body of a lion and a human head wearing a nemes–headcloth and false beard. -
Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning. -
Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany -
a single-party Marxist–Leninist state. -
He was the first non-White head of state in South African history, as well as the first to take office following the dismantling