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Hace 16 horas · Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side of the road, respectively.They are fundamental to traffic flow, and are sometimes called the rule of the road. The terms right- and left-hand drive refer to the position of the driver and the steering wheel in the vehicle and are, in automobiles ...
Hace 16 horas · The legal status of polygamy varies widely around the world. Polygyny is legal in 58 out of nearly 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of them being Muslim-majority countries.Some countries that permit polygamy have restrictions, such as requiring the first wife to give her consent. In countries that ban polygamy, the offence is commonly called bigamy, though the penalty varies between ...
Hace 16 horas · Estimates of world population by their nature are an aspect of modernity, possible only since the Age of Discovery.Early estimates for the population of the world date to the 17th century: William Petty, in 1682, estimated the world population at 320 million (current estimates ranging close to twice this number); by the late 18th century, estimates ranged close to one billion (consistent with ...
Hace 16 horas · Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south.Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small ...
Hace 16 horas · Politische Geschichte Anatolien vor 1300 Das Byzantinische Reich um 1270 Anatolien um 1300, u. a. mit Teilen des Byzantinischen Reichs, Sultanat der Rum-Seldschuken und Ilkhanat. Kleinasien (Anatolien) stand bis ins 11. Jahrhundert unter der Vorherrschaft des Byzantinischen Reichs.Nach der Schlacht bei Manzikert 1071 hatten die turkstämmigen Rum-Seldschuken ein eigenes Sultanat in ...
Hace 16 horas · Historically, cavalry was divided into light cavalry and heavy cavalry.The differences were their roles in combat, the size of their mounts, and how much armor was worn by the mount and rider.. Heavy cavalry, such as Byzantine cataphracts and knights of the Early Middle Ages in Europe, were used as shock troops, charging the main body of the enemy at the height of a battle; in many cases their ...
Hace 16 horas · Timur, also known as Tamerlane, often aggrandized by his epithet Prince of Destruction, (8 April 1336 – 17–18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty.An undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and ...
