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The Three Estates of Pre-Revolutionary France
Society in the Kingdom of France in the period of the Ancien Regime was broken up into three separate estates, or social classes: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. These classes and their accompanying power dynamics, originating...
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Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia - Era of Many of the "Firsts" in Civilization
The Early Dynastic period in Mesopotamia is the modern-day archaeological term for the era in Mesopotamian history – circa 2900 to circa 2350/2334 BCE – during which some of the most significant cultural advances were made, including the...
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Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
The Second Intermediate Period (c. 1782 - c.1570 BCE) is the era following the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE) and preceding the New Kingdom (1570-1069 BCE). As with all historical designations of the eras of Egyptian history, the...
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Heian Period
The Heian Period of Japanese history covers 794 to 1185 CE and saw a great flourishing in Japanese culture from literature to paintings. Government and its administration came to be dominated by the Fujiwara clan who eventually were challenged...
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The Three Kingdoms - Yellow Turban Rebellion - Extra History - #1
The first episode in a series of short, animated documentaries chronicling the Three Kingdoms period of China's history.
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The Three Kingdoms - The Battle of Guandu - Extra History - #2
The second episode in a series of short, animated documentaries chronicling the Three Kingdoms period of China's history
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Three Kingdoms - OverSimplified
A history of the Three Kingdoms by OverSimplified.
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History of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion Remake
Part of a series on the History of the Three Kingdoms.
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Early Dynastic Period In Egypt
The Early Dynastic Period in Egypt (c. 3150 - c. 2613 BCE) is the beginning of the historical era of the country during which the regions of Upper Egypt (south) and Lower Egypt (north) were united as one country under a centralized government...
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Azuchi-Momoyama Period
The Azuchi-Momoyama Period (Azuchi-Momoyama Jidai, aka Shokuho Period, 1568/73 - 1600 CE) was a brief but significant period of medieval Japan's history which saw the country unified after centuries of a weak central government and petty...