The relic of the Old Stone Age | Fei Xie | TEDxHebeiNormalUniversity
What does the simple stone tell us about human orgins in the Old stone age?
Are you curious about the relic of your anceter?
You will get more information in this speech.
Archaeologist
It is said that Chinese archaeology is essential to world’s Archaeology and Nihewan is essential to Chinese archaeology. In thirty years Professor Xie Fei gradually uncovers the mystery of Nihewan with the power of the dream as the spiritual support. His work increases the Chinese understanding of ancient civilization of mankind and spreads Nihewan culture. This is a dream belongs to Professor Xie and Chinese culture, and also is the dream of human progress.
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Climate Change, Chaos, and The Little Ice Age - Crash Course World History 206
In which John Green teaches you about the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that occurred from the 13th to the 19th centuries. This cooling was likely caused by a number of factors, including unusual solar activity and volcanic eruptions. The Little Ice Age greatly impacted human social orders, especially during the 17th century. When the climate changed, and weather became unpredictable, the world changed profoundly. Poor harvests led to hunger, which led to even less productivity, which even resulted in violent upheaval in a lot of places. All this from a little change in the temperature? Definitely.
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BON-The Peking Man vs the Banpo Man
From August 30th to September 18th, an exhibition called the Peking Man versus the Banpo Man is being held at the Xi'an Banpo Ruin Museum. But before we go into detail about the exhibition, let me give you a brief introduction to what Peking men are compared to Banpo men.
History Clubs - English
Students in the History Club at Kor High School in Kampong Cham undertake a conservation project on a local Angkorian ruin called Kukyhom.
Extracurricular clubs like these help to deepen students' interest in subjects and get them excited about school. They also encourage teachers to practice engaging project-based teaching techniques.
Originally produced in Khmer for the ESCUP project, funded by USAID.
Mindanao | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:25 1 History
00:03:35 1.1 Prehistory
00:04:59 1.2 Rajahnates and Hindu-Buddhism
00:06:58 1.3 Sultanates and Islam
00:08:16 1.4 Spanish Colonization and Christianity
00:10:12 1.5 American Occupation
00:10:46 1.6 Philippine Commonwealth
00:11:20 1.7 World War II
00:12:55 1.8 Recent conflicts
00:15:03 1.9 Typhoon Sendong
00:15:57 2 Economy
00:17:59 2.1 Upcoming Developments
00:19:54 3 Administrative divisions
00:20:19 3.1 Table notes
00:20:41 3.2 Largest Cities and Municipalities in Mindanao
00:22:23 4 Geography
00:30:05 4.1 Mountains
00:31:14 4.2 Plateaus
00:32:40 4.3 Lakes and waterfalls
00:35:50 4.4 Valleys, rivers, and plains
00:36:15 5 Demographics
00:38:32 5.1 Ethnicity and Culture
00:41:13 5.2 Languages
00:41:50 5.3 Religion
00:44:00 6 Tourism
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- Socrates
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Mindanao ( (listen)) or still commonly known as Southern Philippines, is the second largest island in the Philippines. Mindanao and the smaller islands surrounding it make up the island group of the same name. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, as of the 2010 census, the main island was inhabited by 20,281,545 people, while the entire Mindanao island group had an estimated total of 25,537,691 (2018) residents.
According to the 2015 Philippine Population Census, Davao City is the most populous city on the island, with a population of 1,632,991 residents, followed by Zamboanga City (pop. 861,799), Cagayan de Oro City (pop. 675,950), General Santos City (pop. 594,446) and Iligan City (pop. 342,618). About 70% of residents identify as Christian, and 20% identify as Muslim. Mindanao is divided into six regions: the Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, the Caraga region, the Davao region, SOCCSKSARGEN, and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Native ethnic groups in Mindanao include the Lumads (namely the Subanons of the Zamboanga Peninsula; the Bukidnon, the Ata Manobos, the Mamanwas, the Matigsalugs, the Agusan Manobos, the Talaandigs, the Kamigins, and the Higaonons of Northern Mindanao and the region of Caraga; the T'bolis, the Tirurays, the B'laans, the Sarangani, and the Cotabato Manobos of the region of SOCCSKSARGEN; and the Obo, the Mandayas, the Giangans, the Tagabawas, the Kalagans, the Sangirese, and the Mansaka of the Davao region) and the Moros (namely the Maguindanaos, the Maranaos, the Tausugs, the Yakans, the Iranuns, and the Sama, mainly concentrated within the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Joining them are the equally indigenous Butuanons and the Surigaonons of the Caraga region as well as the Zamboangueños of the eponymous peninsula, along with descendants of settlers from the Visayas and Luzon (chiefly from the former), among them the Cebuanos and the Hiligaynons.
Mindanao is considered the major breadbasket of the Philippines, with eight of the top 10 agri-commodities exported from the Philippines coming from the island group itself.Mindanao is known for its moniker being The Philippines' Land of Promise.
Iraq | Wikipedia audio article
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Iraq
00:04:04 1 Name
00:06:05 2 History
00:06:14 2.1 Pre-historic era
00:07:32 2.2 Ancient Iraq
00:09:03 2.2.1 Bronze Age
00:16:12 2.2.2 Iron Age
00:17:48 2.2.3 Babylonian and Persian periods
00:21:06 2.3 Middle Ages
00:23:48 2.4 Ottoman Iraq
00:26:45 2.5 British administration and independent Kingdom
00:29:38 2.6 Republic and Ba'athist Iraq
00:34:22 2.7 2003–2007
00:38:01 2.8 2008–present
00:43:09 3 Geography
00:44:33 3.1 Climate
00:45:40 4 Government and politics
00:48:08 4.1 Law
00:49:52 4.2 Military
00:52:09 4.3 Foreign relations
00:53:49 4.4 Human rights
00:55:11 4.5 Administrative divisions
00:55:47 5 Economy
00:58:41 5.1 Oil and energy
01:02:35 5.2 Water supply and sanitation
01:03:23 5.3 Infrastructure
01:04:30 6 Demographics
01:04:59 6.1 Ethnic groups
01:06:59 6.2 Languages
01:08:35 6.3 Urban areas
01:08:44 6.4 Religion
01:10:50 6.5 Diaspora and refugees
01:12:33 6.6 Health
01:14:07 6.7 Education
01:16:04 7 Culture
01:16:21 7.1 Music
01:17:56 7.2 Art and architecture
01:19:48 7.3 Media
01:21:06 7.4 Cuisine
01:22:38 7.5 Sport
01:23:51 8 Technology
01:24:00 8.1 Mobile phones
01:24:26 8.2 Satellite
01:24:51 8.3 Undersea cable
01:25:26 9 See also
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Iraq (, (listen) or ; Arabic: العراق al-'Irāq; Kurdish: عێراق Eraq), officially known as the Republic of Iraq (Arabic: جُمُهورية العِراق ; Kurdish: کۆماری عێراق Komari Eraq), is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west. The capital, and largest city, is Baghdad. Iraq is home to diverse ethnic groups including Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Turkmen, Shabakis, Yazidis, Armenians, Mandeans, Circassians and Kawliya. Around 95% of the country's 37 million citizens are Muslims, with Christianity, Yarsan, Yezidism and Mandeanism also present. The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish.
Iraq has a coastline measuring 58 km (36 miles) on the northern Persian Gulf and encompasses the Mesopotamian Alluvial Plain, the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. Two major rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, run south through Iraq and into the Shatt al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. These rivers provide Iraq with significant amounts of fertile land.
The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is often referred to as the cradle of civilisation. It was here that mankind first began to read, write, create laws and live in cities under an organised government—notably Uruk, from which Iraq is derived. The area has been home to successive civilisations since the 6th millennium BC. Iraq was the centre of the Akkadian, Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian empires. It was also part of the Median, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid, Mongol, Safavid, Afsharid and Ottoman empires.The country today known as Iraq was a region of the Ottoman Empire until the partition of the Ottoman Empire in the 20th century. It was made up of three provinces, called vilayets in the Ottoman language: Mosul Vilayet, Baghdad Vilayet, and Basra Vilayet. In April 1920 the British Mandate of Mesopotamia was created under the authority of the League of Nations. A British-backed monarchy joining these vilayets into one Kingdom was established in 1921 under Faisal I of Iraq. The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq gained independence from the UK in 1932. In 1958, the monarchy was overthrown and the Iraqi Republic created. Iraq was controlled by the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party from 1968 until 2003. After an invasion by the United States and its allies in 2003, Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party was removed from power, and multi-party parliamentary elections were held in 2005. The US presence in Iraq ended in 2011, but the Iraqi insurgency continued and intensified as ...