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“The Knowledge Library”
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An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.
“The Knowledge Library”
Knowledge for All, without Barriers……….
Knowledge for All, without Barriers…
Humans have domesticated dozens of different kinds of animals. We use tame animals for meat, hide, milk, and wool, but also for companionship, for hunting, for riding, and even for pulling plows. A surprising number of common domesticated animals actually …
Few substances in history have had as profound an effect on human history as gunpowder, yet its discovery in China was an accident. Contrary to myth, it was not simply used for fireworks but was put to military uses from …
Aryan is probably one of the most misused and abused words ever to come out of the field of linguistics. What the term Aryan actually means and what it has come to mean are two vastly different things. Unfortunately, errors by some scholars in …
There are few things more disconcerting than the sensation of the seemingly-solid Earth suddenly rolling and pitching beneath one’s feet. As a result, humans have sought ways to measure or even predict earthquakes for thousands of years. Although we still can’t accurately …
Paper money is an invention of the Song Dynasty in China in the 11th century CE, nearly 20 centuries after the earliest known use of metal coins. While paper money was certainly easier to carry in large amounts, using paper money had …
Late 3rd Millennium B.C. Babylon exists as a city. Shamshi-Adad I (1813 – 1781 B.C.), an Amorite, has power in northern Mesopotamia, from the Euphrates River to the Zagros Mountains. 1st Half of 18th Century B.C. 1792 – 1750 …
At an altitude of about 8000 feet, Machu Picchu, now one of the 7 wonders of the world, is a small city in the Andes, about 44 miles northwest of Cuzco, Peru, which was once the political heart of the Inca …
The silk road is a name coined by German geographer F. Von Richtofen in 1877, but it refers to a trade network used in antiquity. It was through the silk road that imperial Chinese silk reached luxury-seeking Romans, who also …
Babylonian Numbers Senkareh Table of Squares (Plate 18). Here is an example of Babylonian mathematics, written in cuneiform. With this table of squares you can see how to put Base 60 put into practice. Three Main Areas of Difference From …
On the basis of archaeological finds, it has been postulated that hominid activity in Japan may date as early as 200,000 B.C. when the islands were connected to the Asian mainland. Although some scholars doubt this early date for habitation, most agree that by …
Babylonia (roughly, modern southern Iraq) is the name of an ancient Mesopotamian empire known for its math and astronomy, architecture, literature, cuneiform tablets, laws and administration, and beauty, as well as excess and evil of Biblical proportions. Control of Sumer-Akkad …
The Bronze Age is the period of human time between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, terms referring to the material with which tools and weapons were made. In Britain Begins (Oxford: 2013), Barry Cunliffe says the concept of the three …
The original Persian (or Achaemenid) empire, as established by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century B.C., only lasted approximately 200 years until the death of Darius III in 330 B.C., following his defeat by Alexander the Great. The core territories of …
Karst mountains in Guilin, China. The most grandiose Karst topographical features are fashioned by nature in the presence of dense limestone, abundant rainfall, and a moderate underground water system. A common feature in Karst Topography, are three-dimensional shapes, such as …
Map of the Indian subcontinent. A subcontinent is a part of a continent that is politically and/or geographically separate from the rest of the continent. Geographically, the Indian Subcontinent consists of the peninsular part of present-day India, south of the …
The Great Salt Lake in Utah is remnant of an endorheic basin. Endorheic basins and lakes are often saline, and can form salt lakes or dried salt pans over time. Australia holds the largest concentration of endorheic basins and lakes …
The world’s largest salt flat, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. Salt pans, or salt salts are areas where bodies of water have evaporated, leaving behind expanses of minerals and salts. These pans usually occur in dry hot climates where the …
Oceania Oceania is a region in the Pacific Ocean. It consists of 4 subregions, Australia and New Zealand, Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Approximately 43 million people live in Oceania. Oceania contains 14 independent countries and 8 dependencies. Most of the …