steppe expansion

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• Steppe, the — ▪ geographical area, Eurasia Introduction  belt of grassland that extends some 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometres) from Hungary in the west through Ukraine and Central Asia to Manchuria in the east. Mountain ranges interrupt the steppe, dividing it… …   Universalium

• Russland: Die Expansion nach dem Krimkrieg —   Die Kapitulation der monatelang umkämpften Festung Sewastopol am 9. September 1855 stürzte das Zarenreich in eine schwere Krise. Das nikolaitische Herrschaftssystem hinterließ eine drückende Erblast. Der innergesellschaftliche Frieden war… …   Universal-Lexikon

• Renault Logan Steppe — Dacia Logan Pour les articles homonymes, voir Logan. Dacia Logan Constructeur …   Wikipédia en Français

• Lac de steppe — Endoréisme Delta de l Okavango L’endoréisme est un terme d hydrologie qui caractérise des régions où l écoulement des eaux (superficielles ou non) n atteint pas la mer et se perd dans les dépressions fermées. Toute pluie ou autre forme de… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …   Universalium

• china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …   Universalium

• China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …   Universalium

• CHINE (L’Empire du Milieu) - Histoire — Comme les pays du bassin méditerranéen et de l’Europe, la Chine d’aujourd’hui est le point d’aboutissement d’une très longue évolution où les facteurs de continuité ne sont sans doute pas plus significatifs pour l’historien que ceux que l’on… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Ukraine — /yooh krayn , kruyn , yooh krayn/, n. a republic in SE Europe: rich agricultural and industrial region. 50,684,635; 223,090 sq. mi. (603,700 sq. km). Cap.: Kiev. Russian, Ukraina. Formerly, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. * * * Ukraine… …   Universalium

• Domestication of the horse — A bred back Heck Horse, closely resembling the Tarpan (photographed 2004), believed to be phenotypically close to the wild horse at the time of its original domestication. There are a number of hypotheses on many of the key issues regarding the… …   Wikipedia

• Kurgan hypothesis — The Kurgan hypothesis (also theory or model) is a model of early Indo European origins, which postulates that the Kurgan culture of the Pontic steppe were the most likely speakers of the reconstructed Proto Indo European language. Though… …   Wikipedia