a Turkish state that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the 16th century; collapsed after World War I.Cap.:Constantinople. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by ...
Space stations can be built to help defend a planet and increase the total population cap. Space battles are similar to land battles in that you are limited to the number of onscreen units at any given time. There isn't much maneuvering in space, either; nearly every battle begins with ...
this was the pinnacle of a Senatorial career. It was limited to ex-Consuls, and so carried incredible prestige and dignity, making it essentially the "feather in the cap" for elder statesman (at least prior to the development of various prestigious...
Chapter three of this book entitled “Collision at Cajamarca” specifically examines the Spanish conquering of the Incan Empire in 1532. As Diamond tells, Inca emperor Huayna Capac and his heir were killed by a smallpox epidemic brought to the New World by Spanish settlers in Panama and ...
The Spanish carried such alien diseases as smallpox and influenza, which wiped out a huge chunk of the population before killing Huayna Capac and his chosen successor around 1525. Those two deaths sparked a civil war as would-be emperors battled for power, with Atahualpa eventually outlasting...
The basin floors where Tiwanaku city was built were marshy and flooded seasonally because of snowmelt from the Quelcceya ice cap. The Tiwanaku farmers used this to their advantage, constructing elevated sod platforms orraised fieldson which to grow their crops, separated by canals. These raised...
World War II fundamentally changed social, economic and political relationships on a global scale. Ren茅 Caprara's foresight of a National Party in power came to pass, and with it, the SABC changed too. But for the war years at least, South African broadcasting had firmly been part of a...
and the native population had been destroyed by civil war and disease, 当地人口也因内战和疾病大大减少, some Incas fell back to a new capital at Vilcabamba 一些印加人撤退到比尔卡班巴 将此地作为新首都, and resisted for the next 40 years. ...
In both cases, traditional rituals were displaced from their usual contexts: the ritual behaviour of a man who has just been manumitted was imitated by a king, who may have used the attributes of a freedman (cap, toga, and boots), but lacked his most important legal right: Roman citizens...
The Inca established their capital atCuzco(Peru) in the 12th century. They began their conquests in the early 15th century and within 100 years had gained control of an Andean population of about 12 million people. According to their tradition, the Inca originated in the village ofPaqari-tampu...