Only 700 years ago, Europe's knowledge of the planet extended no farther than Ptolemy's in Roman times: just into northern Africa and western Asia.
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Despite the small number of genes which made it through, the Neanderthals did go extinct in Europe, western Asia and Siberia - for reasons which remain unclear.
After the war, the British and French refused to give up their colonies without a fight, and the Soviet Union fueled a Cold War by attempting to restore, and build upon, the older czarist empire in eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.
According to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (2006), Bahrain is one of the fastest growing economies in the Arab World due to the growth of its oil industries (which accounts for 30 per cent of the GDP and 60 per cent of export receipts) and the financial (banking), construction and tourism sectors.
Instead, Western Europe and Asia (excluding China) were the most popular areas for expansion.
The opera is in three acts and is loosely based on the historic conflict between Bajazet, a Turkish sultan, and the Tartar conqueror Timur, or Tamerlano, who ruled much of western and central Asia in the 14th century.
Despite the hot smartphone growth in Asia, Western Europe vs.
Sailing along the coast of Siberia by the north-east passage, or Northern Sea Route (NSR), as Russians and mariners call it, cuts the distance between western Europe and east Asia by roughly a third.
According to this proposal, such mechanisms could be established in Asia, the Western Hemisphere, and Eastern Europe, and be regionally funded.
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For these people, the retreat of Western power--from Asia, from Africa, from South America -- was the natural way of the world.
Its mobile devices are among a raft of cheaper, Android-based phones and tablets coming out of Asia to challenge Western stalwarts like Apple and Nokia.
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The cable hit in Wednesday's apparent sabotage was the South East Asia Middle East Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) - one of the main cables snaking under the Mediterranean, Mena said.
With the additional bandwidth, Cisco expects huge growth in data consumption by 2016, with growth up 3x in North America and Western Europe, 4x in Asia Pacific, 5x in Central and Eastern Europe, 7x in Latin America and 10x in Middle East and Africa.
But for Western markets and later others in Asia, Mateschitz preferred the name Red Bull.
Bank Austria is among the latest Western institutions following corporate clients to Asia.
Many Western firms are more interested in Asia's capital spending than its consumption, and here Asia is undoubtedly the giant.
Despite some signs of government enthusiasm, both the Western hedge funds making inroads in Asia and the native funds sprouting up there face markets that are tricky to navigate.
On the contrary, INSEAD, a leading international business school, reported that graduates were recruited from companies in 64 countries, with 41 percent obtaining employment in Western Europe, 25 percent in Asia, and 9 percent in North America.
So, look for energy resources to be coming from offshore Greenland, central Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, the North Sea, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern and Western Siberia and the Caspian says Schlumberger.
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Mr O'Konek is a rarity, one of just a few western managers running a local firm in Asia.
Far more irksome, however, are the rules that continue to keep large parts of Asia off-limits to western private banks.
In Pernod Ricard's champagne sales, Perrier-Jouet sold well in the Americas, Asia and France, but western Europe led decline for Mumm.
Several western authors also put misplaced confidence in Asia's prospects.
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This growth has been driven by strong BlackBerry adoption in markets including Latin America, SouthEast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe.
There will be another total lunar eclipse on 16 July this year, visible from Asia, the Pacific and the western side of the Americas.
Don Southerton is a consultant, marketing strategist, and researcher for top Korean-based corporations with global business, along with major western firms that have ventures in Korea and Asia Pacific.
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He certainly remembers his past treatment by the Western press, expounding at length to FORBES ASIA on the omissions in a decade-old story on Paiton by an American newspaper reporter whose name he still remembers.
According to a story in the January 20, 2009 New York Times, government subsidies so thoroughly disrupted pricing in the global market for antibiotics that many western producers had to either move facilities to Asia or exit the business entirely.
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Its gas is closer to market than Russia's, in western Siberia, or Turkmenistan's in Central Asia, which are 1, 000km east of Baku.
Several Western speakers with the same message defensively stressed that Asia isn't being force-fed "Anglo-Saxon" formulas under the cover of international rules of the game.
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