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  2. Jōmon period - Wikipedia

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    During this time Magatama stone beads make a transition from being a common jewelry item found in homes into serving as a grave good. [44] This is a period where there are large burial mounds and monuments. [14] The Magatama is jewelry from Jōmon period Japan, and was also found in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.

  3. Timeline of Middle Eastern history - Wikipedia

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    This timeline tries to show dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East/ South West Asia .The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

  4. Jōmon people - Wikipedia

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    Jōmon (縄文, Jōmon), sometimes written as Jomon (American English /ˈdʒoʊˌmɑːn/ JOH-mahn, British English /ˈdʒəʊmɒn/ JOH-mon), [11] literally meaning "cord-marked" or "cord pattern," is a Japanese word coined by American zoologist, archaeologist, and orientalist Edward S. Morse in his book Shell Mounds of Omori (1879) which he wrote after he discovered sherds of cord-marked ...

  5. History of the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    The Middle East, it turned out, possessed the world's largest easily untapped reserves of crude oil, the most important commodity in the 20th century. The discovery of oil in the region made many of the kings and emirs of the Middle East immensely wealthy and enabled them to consolidate their hold on power while giving them a stake in ...

  6. Timeline of women in religion - Wikipedia

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    19th century: Women's mosques, called nusi, and female imams have existed since the 19th century in China and continue today. [16]19th century: Hannah Rachel Verbermacher, also known as the Maiden of Ludmir (Ludmirer Moyd), became the only female Rebbe in the history of the Hasidic movement; she lived in Ukraine and Israel.

  7. Women in the Arab world - Wikipedia

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    Women's economic position was strengthened by the Qur'an, [need quotation to verify] but local custom has weakened that position in their insistence that women must work within the private sector of the world: the home or at least in some sphere related to home. Dr. Nadia Yousaf, an Egyptian sociologist teaching recently in the United States ...

  8. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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    Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during two eras of activism. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US ...

  9. Women in post-classical warfare - Wikipedia

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    Women and War in the High and Late Middle Ages Reconsidered (MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 2009) full text online, with detailed review of the literature Lourie, E. "Black women warriors in the Muslim army besieging Valencia and the Cid's victory: A problem of interpretation", Traditio 55 (2000), pp. 181–209