Centuries
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After
centuries
of isolation, Japan’s Meiji restoration chose selectively from the rest of the world, and within 50 years the country had become strong enough to defeat a European great power, in the Russo-Japanese War.
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Despite
centuries
of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.
And it should take into account what we know of the aesthetic interests of isolated hunter-gatherer bands that survived into the 19th and the 20th
centuries.
These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.
That had not happened in the three
centuries
in which African Americans had been on that soil at that time.
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