The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7Grolier, 1994 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Africa through the drier regions of tropical Africa , it is best known as the sacred snake ( uraeus ) of the ancient Egyptians . It appears in many temple drawings , and Egyptian rulers wore its image on their foreheads as a symbol of ...
... Africa through the drier regions of tropical Africa , it is best known as the sacred snake ( uraeus ) of the ancient Egyptians . It appears in many temple drawings , and Egyptian rulers wore its image on their foreheads as a symbol of ...
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... Africa and southern Asia - but it seems doubtful that the pre- colonial societies of sub - Saharan Africa and the Pacific could have achieved so much by the mid - 1900's on their own account . For them colo- nialism was a shortcut ...
... Africa and southern Asia - but it seems doubtful that the pre- colonial societies of sub - Saharan Africa and the Pacific could have achieved so much by the mid - 1900's on their own account . For them colo- nialism was a shortcut ...
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... Africa . Britain and its Euro- pean rivals made far and away their greatest territorial gains in Africa , which they virtually partitioned before 1914. In the north , the British government bought from the spendthrift Egyp- tian khedive ...
... Africa . Britain and its Euro- pean rivals made far and away their greatest territorial gains in Africa , which they virtually partitioned before 1914. In the north , the British government bought from the spendthrift Egyp- tian khedive ...
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