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1 day ago · The Yuezhi (Chinese: 月氏; pinyin: Yuèzhī, Ròuzhī or Rùzhī; Wade–Giles: Yüeh 4-chih 1, Jou 4-chih 1 or Ju 4-chih 1;) were an ancient people first described in Chinese histories as nomadic pastoralists living in an arid grassland area in the western part of the modern Chinese province of Gansu, during the 1st millennium BC.
1 hour ago · Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Albans, was a man of the Enlightenment. Rising from an upper middle-class background, he went on to achieve success as a confidant of nobility and an advisor to royalty. Not that he did not also see adversity in his life; imprisoned twice, once for debt and once for bribery, he overcame these setbacks.
1 day ago · The first European explorer known to have visited New Zealand was the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman, on 13 December 1642. [1] In 1643 he charted the west coast of the North Island, his expedition then sailed back to Batavia without setting foot on New Zealand soil.
1 hour ago · The cultivation of cannabis in Italy has a long history dating back to Roman times, when it was primarily used to produce hemp ropes, although pollen records from core samples show that Cannabaceae plants were present in the Italian peninsula since at least the Late Pleistocene, while the earliest evidence of their use dates back to the Bronze ...
1 day ago · v. t. e. The history of economic thought is the study of the philosophies of the different thinkers and theories in the subjects that later became political economy and economics, from the ancient world to the present day. This field encompasses many disparate schools of economic thought.
1 day ago · Elizabeth I was the longest serving Tudor monarch at 44 years, and her reign- known as the Elizabethan Era- provided a period of stability after the short, troubled reigns of her siblings. When Elizabeth I died childless, her cousin of the Scottish House of Stuart succeeded her, in the Union of the Crowns of 24 March 1603.
1 hour ago · Morocco, [ d] officially the Kingdom of Morocco, [ e] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south.
