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... cultures that emerged in Yucatán , Mexico , and Peru . The Mayans , a people who were settled in Yucatán as far back as 1000 B.C. , raised themselves to a high degree of culture in the centuries when the Romans ruled Europe . Yet these ...
... cultures that emerged in Yucatán , Mexico , and Peru . The Mayans , a people who were settled in Yucatán as far back as 1000 B.C. , raised themselves to a high degree of culture in the centuries when the Romans ruled Europe . Yet these ...
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... culture . While limiting consumption of lux- ury goods through high excise taxes , Frederick encouraged necessary ... Culture Under this Spartan regime directed from Berlin , the finer flowers of the human spirit were slow to blossom ...
... culture . While limiting consumption of lux- ury goods through high excise taxes , Frederick encouraged necessary ... Culture Under this Spartan regime directed from Berlin , the finer flowers of the human spirit were slow to blossom ...
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... culture and in population . Although nearly all the colonial peoples of the New World had sev- ered , or were about to sever , the political ties that bound them to their mother states in the Old World , their future development was ...
... culture and in population . Although nearly all the colonial peoples of the New World had sev- ered , or were about to sever , the political ties that bound them to their mother states in the Old World , their future development was ...
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON | 2 |
BRITAIN TURNS TO LIBERALISM AND FREE TRADE | 3 |
FROM AGRARIAN TO INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY | 4 |
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