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... France until about 90,000,000 or 100 , - 000,000 years ago , when it began to rotate into its present position and opened the Bay of Biscay behind it . As the peninsula moved toward southern France , a combination of crustal shortening ...
... France until about 90,000,000 or 100 , - 000,000 years ago , when it began to rotate into its present position and opened the Bay of Biscay behind it . As the peninsula moved toward southern France , a combination of crustal shortening ...
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... France ; and it was in France that the most typical aspects of feudalism , both negative and positive , could be found . Europe in the 11th century was feeling the effects of a population growth that had begun toward the end of the 10th ...
... France ; and it was in France that the most typical aspects of feudalism , both negative and positive , could be found . Europe in the 11th century was feeling the effects of a population growth that had begun toward the end of the 10th ...
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... France , numerous forms developed from the branle , a round dance of peasant origin that became fashionable in the courts . One of the most frequently mentioned of all the dances of the 15th century was the morisca , or moresque , a ...
... France , numerous forms developed from the branle , a round dance of peasant origin that became fashionable in the courts . One of the most frequently mentioned of all the dances of the 15th century was the morisca , or moresque , a ...
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