The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BC occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern day Tel Aviv and Gaza.
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Coffee has played a key role in the American story . From independence to to the civil war , where it was a rationed pick me up for weary soldiers , to the assembly lines of World War 2 where the “coffee break” was introduced, the coffee bean has always been at the centre of American social inter course.
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The early periods of Japanese history can be divided into four distinct periods. Firstly, there is the Japanese Paleolithic Period, which lasted several millennia between 40,000 BC to 14,000 BC.
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Ireland’s ancient history is rich with influences from the first settlers (7000BC), Bronze Age settlers, Celts, Vikings, and Norman England. With increasing interest and military pressures from England, the Celts of Ireland had been converted to Christianity, downtrodden, and robbed to such an extent that by 1714, the Irish population owned only 7% of Irish land.
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The Normans who emerged from Normandy in France in the 10th century were famed for their martial spirit and had a major political impact in medieval Europe.
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