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History of Mediaeval Period 

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Q. Who was Aryabhata?

Ans.

Long before satellites and telescopes were invented, Aryabhata was looking up and calculating.

Born in Kusumapura (present-day Patna) in 476 CE, at the age of 23, he penned the Aryabhatiya, a seminal work on mathematics and astronomy.

According to his theory, the Earth revolves on its axis.

There are 365.258 days in a year:

The Earth's shadow, not Rahu-Ketu consuming the Sun and Moon, is what causes eclipses.

He provided a precise estimate of pi (π ≈ 3.1416).

A system for zero and place-value notation was also created by him.

This was all in the fifth century.

Writing equations wasn't all that Aryabhata did.

He changed the way we think about the cosmos.

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Q. What are the Vienna Conventions? 

Ans.  The term "Vienna Convention" most commonly refers to two major international agreements: the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985), which aims to protect human health and the environment from ozone depletion, and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969), which governs treaties between sovereign states.  Other treaties have also been signed in Vienna, covering areas like diplomatic relations, road traffic, and consular relations. 

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Q. What is the Versailles Treaty (ভার্সাই চুক্তি)? 

Ans. The Treaty of Versailles, concluded in 1919, was a peace treaty that formally brought World War I to a close between Germany and the Allied Powers, compelling Germany to recognize its culpability for the war, provide reparations, cede territory, and disarm. Signed at the Palace of Versailles, it also gave rise to the League of Nations, although its harsh terms on Germany, especially the "war guilt clause," generated resentment and ultimately contributed to the outbreak of World War II.

Q. What is the Warsaw Pact?

Ans. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc nations signed the Warsaw Pact in 1955 as a counterbalance to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

On February 25, 1991, the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, and on July 1, 1991, Vaclav Havel, the president of Czechoslovakia, formally announced its dissolution. Gorbachev’s policy of openness (Glasnost) and restructuring (Perestroika), together with other initiatives, opened the way for popular uprisings. The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, and communist governments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, and Bulgaria started to fall.

The breakup of the Warsaw Pact was shortly followed by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

Q. What are the Camp David Accords?

Ans. It was a bilateral treaty between Egypt and Israel.  A significant step towards Middle East peace was taken on September 17, 1978, when Egypt and Israel signed the historic Camp David Accords, which paved the way for a peace treaty between the two countries.

On September 17, 1978, after twelve days of confidential talks at Camp David, the US president's retreat in Maryland, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed two political agreements known as the Camp David Accords. President Jimmy Carter witnessed the signing of the two framework agreements at the White House. The 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty was directly influenced by the second of these frameworks, A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel. Sadat and Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize as a result of the agreement. The United Nations denounced the first framework, A Framework for Peace in the Middle East, which addressed Palestinian territories and was draughted without Palestinian input. The agreement was viewed as a unilateral peace initiative that ignored the creation of a Palestinian state, which ultimately weakened the unity of the Arab position and caused widespread dissatisfaction throughout much of the Arab world.

Camp David Accords Signatories

	Menachem Begin  Anwar Sadat  Jimmy Carter
	Camp David Principles.

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EVENTS OF WORLD HISTORY
A Documentation of Brief Historical Accounts of World Events       

From the distant past to the present

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Ancient History 

Ancient history spans the time from the invention of writing in early civilisations to the Early Middle Ages, roughly from 3000 BC to 476 AD. This period marks a significant shift from prehistory to written history and includes the rise and fall of many societies and empires, including those in the Aegean region. The invention of writing systems is a significant turning point that shaped the classical era between 750 BC and 500 AD by enabling the recording of events and the generational transfer of knowledge.

This timeline of ancient history lists historical events of the documented ancient past from the beginning of recorded history until the Early Middle Ages. Prehistoric societies lacked a written language and were pre-literate before this time.

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Iron Age:

The Iron Age was a significant period in human history characterised by the widespread use of iron for tools and weapons, marking a transition from the Bronze Age and varying in timeline across different regions.

The last technological and cultural phase of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages is known as the Iron Age. Geographically, the Iron Age began around 1200 BCE in the Middle East and southeast Europe and ended around 600 BCE in China. During this time, bronze was mostly replaced by this metal in tools and weapons. As early as 3000 BCE, iron was used sparingly and as a precious metal in the Middle East, but there is no evidence that its superior qualities over bronze were acknowledged at that time. However, the export of iron metallurgy and iron object knowledge was quick and extensive between 1200 and 1000. As iron implements were produced on a large scale, new, more permanent settlement patterns emerged. On the other hand, the use of iron for weapons changed the face of Europe and Asia, put weapons in the hands of the masses for the first time, and sparked a series of massive people-movements that lasted for 2,000 years.