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Ica
History; World history

Culture centered in the Ica Valley on the coast of southern Peru. It flourished in the Late Intermediate period (c.900-c.1475) until the region was conquered by the Incas. The ...

Ice man
History; World history

The frozen body of a man, dating from about 3350- 3120 BC, discovered in an Alpine glacier on the Italian-Austrian border. Preserved equipment lying nearby included leather ...

Iceni
History; World history

British tribe in Norfolk and Suffolk that made a treaty with Claudius but subsequently rebelled in AD 60-61 under Boudicca. After its defeat a civitatis ('community') was ...

Iconoclast controversy
History; World history

Conflict in the Byzantine empire over the use of icons of saints in worship. It threatened the stability of the empire between 726 and 843. Leo III's edict (726) banning icons ...

Idris III Aloma
History; World history

Emperor of Kanem-Bornu (r.c.1571-c.1603). By controlling trade routes, importing mercenaries and guns, and through his conquests, he built the most powerful empire between the ...

Idrisid caliphate
History; World history

A Moroccan dynasty founded in 789 that reached its peak in the mid-9th century, when it extended authority over the Berber tribes. By 929, however, a Fatimid invasion had wrested ...

Ife
History; World history

Kingdom and city of the Yoruba people of what is today southwestern Nigeria. Probably in existence by the 12th century, Ife came under the political domination of Oyo in the 16th ...

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