Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 8413 Agriculture in Japan
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   Chapter 8421 Ajima Naonobu
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   Chapter 8437 Animal Domestication
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   Chapter 8459 Astronomy in Native North America
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   Chapter 8466 Aztec Science
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   Chapter 8467 Astrology in Babylonia
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   Chapter 8471 Beads
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   Chapter 8482 Eclipses: Calculating and Predicting Eclipses
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    Chapter 8484 Calendars in Egypt
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    Chapter 8490 Celestial Vault and Sphere
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    Chapter 8505 Cities and Towns in Ancient Israel (Bronze and Iron Ages)
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    Chapter 8512 City Planning: Aztec City Planning
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    Chapter 8520 Colonialism and Science in the Americas
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    Chapter 8525 Comets and Meteors in the Islamic World
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    Chapter 8526 Mathematics Communicating Across Culture and Time
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    Chapter 8541 Divination: Science, Technology, and the Mantic Arts in Traditional China
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    Chapter 8548 Metallurgy: Early Metallurgy in Mesopotamia
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    Chapter 8562 Embalming in Egypt
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    Chapter 8564 Environment and Nature in Buddhism
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    Chapter 8568 Environment and Nature: The Natural Environment in Native American Thought
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    Chapter 8569 Environment and Nature in the Amazon
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    Chapter 8570 Environment and Nature in Buddhist Thailand: Spirit(s) of Conservation
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    Chapter 8580 Ethnobotany in Native North America
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    Chapter 8611 Geography in the Islamic World
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    Chapter 8617 Geomancy in China
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    Chapter 8637 Holography
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    Chapter 8643 Ibn Al-‘Arabī
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    Chapter 8647 Ethnomathematics of the Inkas
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    Chapter 8650 Knowledge Systems: Indigenous Knowledge of Trees and Forests
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    Chapter 8684 Kitora Burial Mound
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    Chapter 8694 Medicine in Korea
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    Chapter 8717 Maps and Mapmaking in Africa
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    Chapter 8718 Maps and Mapmaking in Ancient Egypt
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    Chapter 8721 Maps and Mapmaking in China
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    Chapter 8731 Maps and Mapmaking: Chinese Geomantic Maps
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    Chapter 8735 Mathematics and Astronomies of the Ancient Berbers
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    Chapter 8744 Mathematics in Vietnam
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    Chapter 8750 Ceramics: Maya Pottery
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    Chapter 8751 City and Town Planning of the Maya
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    Chapter 8760 Medicine and Colonialism in Sri Lanka
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    Chapter 8772 Megalithic Monuments in Korea
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    Chapter 8778 Metallurgy in Ancient Eastern Eurasia
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    Chapter 8802 Mummies in Egypt
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    Chapter 8804 Ceramics in Pre-Hispanic North America
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    Chapter 8815 Obelisks in Ancient Egypt
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    Chapter 8820 Ottoman Science
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    Chapter 8905 Building Construction
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    Chapter 8911 Ceramics in Africa
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    Chapter 8975 Astronomy in Japan: A Cultural History
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    Chapter 8988 Almagest: Its Reception and Transmission in the Islamic World
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    Chapter 9016 Gardens in Japan
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    Chapter 9105 Astronomical Monuments in Polynesia and Micronesia
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    Chapter 9148 Ceramics in Korea
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    Chapter 9163 Medicine in Oceania
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    Chapter 9206 Algebra in India: Bījagaṇita
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    Chapter 9208 Arithmetic in India: Pāṭīgaṇita
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    Chapter 9212 Astronomy in Egypt
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    Chapter 9216 Bakhshālī Manuscript
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    Chapter 9223 Combinatorics in Indian Mathematics
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    Chapter 9226 Geometry in Islamic Mathematics
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    Chapter 9238 Ibn Muʿādh
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    Chapter 9247 Ibn Yūnus
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    Chapter 9258 Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ
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    Chapter 9259 Isḥāq Ibn Ḥunayn
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    Chapter 9262 Kūshyār ibn Labbān
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    Chapter 9263 Līlāvatī
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    Chapter 9269 Marāgha
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    Chapter 9274 Metallurgy in Egypt
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    Chapter 9276 Nāṣir-I Khusraw
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    Chapter 9278 Number Theory in India
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    Chapter 9280 Nyāya
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    Chapter 9281 Observatories in the Islamic World
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    Chapter 9291 Al-Samarqandī
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    Chapter 9306 Al-Ḥajjāj
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    Chapter 9316 Al-Khalīlī
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    Chapter 9322 Al-Māridīnī, Jamāl al-Dīn, and Badr al-Dīn
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    Chapter 9348 Jiuzhang Suanshu
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    Chapter 9365 Leather Work in Ancient Egypt
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    Chapter 9369 Mathematics in Egypt: Mathematical Leather Roll
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    Chapter 9413 Abacus
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    Chapter 9418 Knowledge Systems of Indigenous America
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    Chapter 9434 Ethnobotany of Alaska: A Southwestern Alaska Perspective
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    Chapter 9476 Bread in Africa
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    Chapter 9555 Calculus
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    Chapter 9563 Devācārya
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    Chapter 9573 Jagannātha Samrāṭ
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    Chapter 9576 Kamalākara
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    Chapter 9582 Mahādeva
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    Chapter 9584 Makaranda
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    Chapter 9588 Parameśvara
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    Chapter 9589 Pauliśa
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    Chapter 9590 Precession of the Equinoxes
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    Chapter 9620 Ethnobotany in Pakistan
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    Chapter 9623 Ibn al-Shāṭir
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    Chapter 9630 Archaeoastronomy of North Africa
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    Chapter 9644 Nilometer
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    Chapter 9717 Cosmologies of India
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    Chapter 9726 Cosmetic Surgery in Ancient India
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     Chapter 9727 Surgery in Ancient India
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     Chapter 9740 Ceramics: Rethinking Olmec Pottery
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     Chapter 9741 Architecture and Landscape in India
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     Chapter 9771 Maps and Mapmaking in Egypt: Turin Papyrus Map
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     Chapter 9778 Magic Squares in India
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     Chapter 9797 Ajanta
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     Chapter 9798 Acoustics at Chichen Itza
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     Chapter 9815 Altars in China
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     Chapter 9822 Architecture of the Maya
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     Chapter 9824 Astronomy in the Argentinian Chaco
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     Chapter 9828 Barrow in China
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     Chapter 9829 Basketry in Africa
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     Chapter 9833 Beer Production in Peru
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     Chapter 9835 Betel Nuts
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     Chapter 9836 Board Games in Antiquity
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     Chapter 9840 Calendars and Timekeeping Around the World
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     Chapter 9841 Calendars in Turkey
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     Chapter 9842 Hydraulic Engineering at Angkor
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     Chapter 9848 Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
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     Chapter 9855 Ceramics in the West Indies
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     Chapter 9856 Ceramics in West Africa
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     Chapter 9864 City Planning in Cambodia
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     Chapter 9865 City Planning in India
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     Chapter 9868 Cloth Making at Chichen Itza
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     Chapter 9870 Copper in Zimbabwe
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     Chapter 9871 Prehistoric Copper Mining in Botswana
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     Chapter 9872 Copper Production in Mexico
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     Chapter 9874 Cotton in India
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     Chapter 9876 Crop Domestication in the Amazon
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     Chapter 9882 Architecture of the Maya: Domestic Architecture
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     Chapter 9884 Architecture in South Africa: Domestic Architecture
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     Chapter 9887 Embroidered Textiles in China
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     Chapter 9889 Ethnobotany of Amazonia
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     Chapter 9893 Farming Technology in Amazonia
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     Chapter 9894 Fertility in Historical China
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     Chapter 9901 Food Production Systems in the Amazon
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     Chapter 9903 Gold Mining in Mongolia
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     Chapter 9909 Hunting in Amazonia
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     Chapter 9916 Knowledge: Indigenous Knowledge in Africa
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     Chapter 9920 Navigation: Inland Navigation in Amazonia
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     Chapter 9921 Navigation: Inland Navigation in China
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     Chapter 9925 Irrigation Systems in Samarkand
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     Chapter 9927 Jade in Southeast Asia
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     Chapter 9931 Kauṭilya and Strategy
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     Chapter 9941 Machu Picchu
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     Chapter 9947 Mancala
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     Chapter 9950 Maya Lithic Production
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     Chapter 9955 Hospitals and Medical Schools in the Ottoman Empire
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     Chapter 9963 Metallurgy in Tanzania
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     Chapter 9966 Comet and Meteorite Traditions of Aboriginal Australians
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     Chapter 9966 Comet and Meteorite Traditions of Aboriginal Australians
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     Chapter 9970 Military Technology in the Andes
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     Chapter 9973 Mining in Angola
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     Chapter 9974 Mining in Botswana
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     Chapter 9975 Mining in Brazil
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     Chapter 9980 Mining in the Congo
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     Chapter 9990 Ophthalmology in Egypt
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     Chapter 9991 Oracle Bones
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     Chapter 10005 Plant Domestication in India
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     Chapter 10006 Plant Domestication in the Near East
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     Chapter 10008 Polycentered History of Science
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     Chapter 10009 Glazes in China
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     Chapter 10012 Puerto Rico Tower
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     Chapter 10022 Reproduction in Japan
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     Chapter 10076 Hydraulic Engineering in Ancient Peru and Bolivia
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     Chapter 10086 Defensive Barricades of the Maya
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     Chapter 10087 Philanthropy, Medicine, and Health in Colonial India
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     Chapter 10089 Glass in Egypt
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     Chapter 10090 Aquatic Environments in Mesoamerica: Pre-Hispanic Subsistence Activities
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     Chapter 10092 Printing and Dyeing in India
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     Chapter 10111 Geometry in Islamic Art
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     Chapter 10113 Alcoholic Rice Beverages
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     Chapter 10114 Astronomy in Medieval India
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     Chapter 10116 City Planning of the Lao/Thai
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     Chapter 10117 Clovis Blade Manufacture
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     Chapter 10119 Architecture in the Andes: Domestic Architecture
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     Chapter 10122 Food and the Maori
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     Chapter 10124 Ghulām Ḥusain Jaunpūrī
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     Chapter 10127 Hydraulic Technology in Egypt
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     Chapter 10130 Irrigation in Egypt
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     Chapter 10133 Junks
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     Chapter 10135 Land, Labor, Water, and Technology in Pre-Columbian South America
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     Chapter 10138 Medicine in the Ottoman Empire
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     Chapter 10148 Nāgarasarvasva of Padmaśrī
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     Chapter 10151 Architecture of the Maya: Public Architecture
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     Chapter 10167 Bezoar Stones in Peru
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     Chapter 10168 Earspools in Mexico
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     Chapter 10170 Maya Blue
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     Chapter 10171 Millet in China
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     Chapter 10173 Hydraulic Engineering in Petra
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     Chapter 10178 Metallurgy in Southeast Asia
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     Chapter 10183 Glass in China
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     Chapter 10184 Glass in the Middle East
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     Chapter 10186 Jewelry in the Ottoman Empire
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     Chapter 10188 Ancient Jewelry in Turkey
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     Chapter 10189 Agriculture in the Ancient Near East
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     Chapter 10190 Couscous
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     Chapter 10193 Gardens in Ancient Egypt
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     Chapter 10195 Ceramics in Burma
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     Chapter 10196 Bricks in Nineveh
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     Chapter 10197 Alcohol Fermentation in Australian Aboriginals
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     Chapter 10202 Architecture in French West Africa
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     Chapter 10203 City Planning: Yorùbá City Planning
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     Chapter 10207 Architecture: Nomadic Architecture of Inner Asia
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     Chapter 10210 Boats in Goa
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     Chapter 10212 Gold in the Andes
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     Chapter 10215 Architecture of Fiji
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     Chapter 10217 Agriculture: Origins of Agriculture in Brazil
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     Chapter 10218 Architecture of the Cherokee
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     Chapter 10220 Basketry of the Wabanaki Indians
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     Chapter 10221 Ancient Urban Water System Construction of China
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     Chapter 10223 Gardens of the Islamic World
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     Chapter 10225 Architecture: El Morro of Puerto Rico
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     Chapter 10227 Mausoleums of the Islamic World
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     Chapter 10228 Hydraulic Systems in the Middle East
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     Chapter 10229 Agriculture in Indonesia
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     Chapter 10232 Architecture in Sumba
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     Chapter 10233 Geometry and Architecture in the Americas
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     Chapter 10234 Armor in Japan and Korea
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     Chapter 10236 Cotton in Indonesia
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     Chapter 10237 Origins of Agriculture in Egypt
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     Chapter 10238 Architecture in Suakin
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     Chapter 10239 Boats in Indonesia
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     Chapter 10241 Architecture in Hanoi
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     Chapter 10246 Architecture of the Moluccas
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     Chapter 10247 Probability in Non-Western Cultures
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     Chapter 10248 Zeroism
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     Chapter 10257 Basketry of South America
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     Chapter 10258 Jute in Bengal
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     Chapter 10260 Indigo in Bengal
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     Chapter 10264 Landscape and Temples in Ayutthaya
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     Chapter 10265 Ancient Indian Square Roots
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     Chapter 10269 Boats in Vietnam
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     Chapter 10270 Astronomy in Mesoamerica
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     Chapter 10274 Planetary Models in India
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     Chapter 10276 Ethnomathematics
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     Chapter 10277 Nautical Technology in Cambodia
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     Chapter 10278 Earth Structures of the Olmec
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     Chapter 10279 Boats of the Precolonial Philippines: Butuan Boats
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     Chapter 10282 Pakṣa
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     Chapter 10283 Acyuta Piṣāraṭi
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     Chapter 10284 Armillary Spheres in India
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     Chapter 10288 Decimal Notation
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     Chapter 10289 Deśāntara
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     Chapter 10291 Haridatta
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     Chapter 10293 Jayadeva
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     Chapter 10295 Lalla
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     Chapter 10298 Mahendra Sūri
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     Chapter 10300 Munīśvara
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     Chapter 10301 Nīlakaṇṭha Somayāji
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     Chapter 10316 Basketry in Japan
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     Chapter 10320 Environment in Ancient India
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     Chapter 10321 Decimal System in India
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     Chapter 10322 Architecture: La Citadel of Haiti
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     Chapter 10323 Hydrologic Engineering of the Tiwanaku
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     Chapter 10324 Hardaliye
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     Chapter 10325 La Taptana
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     Chapter 10326 Calculus Transmission