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Martial Stages - Martial Student Martial Master Martial Grandmaster Martial Soldier Martial General Martial King The cultivation realms in the Martial Stage are divided into three sub realm. They are known by First Stage, Second Stage, and Third Stage. With the Third Stage being the peak of the that particular realm. --- Qi Stages - Qi Ant Qi Child Qi Noble Qi Monarch Qi Sovereign Qi Sage Qi Saint Qi Emperor Qi Celestial Qi Quasi Immortal Qi Immortal The cultivation realms in the Qi…-
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It was hard. Hard enough that even Grand Elder was having a hard time to digest her decree completely. After spending some time in a blank zone, Grand Elder was the first one who snapped out of the daze and asked what she meant by that. As long as he knew Sen was never, ever allowed to go out of the mansion without permission. And the same was applicable for the empress, too. Though she was nineteen and like a queen of the sage world, she was living under strict rules and restrictions. No matter how he…-
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The most significant biological development was the appearance and evolution of the genus Homo. The oldest species, H. habilis, probably evolved from an australopithecine ancestor in the late Pliocene. The species was present in Africa by 2 million years ago and is known from sites as young as 1.5 million years old. Another extinct species, H. erectus, evolved in Africa, possibly from H. habilis, and is known from sites about 1.6 million years old. H. erectus spread to other parts of the Old World during…
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Rivers and the valleys that they occupy were affected strongly by the changing climates of the Pleistocene. River channels and their sediment record are controlled in large part by the amount and type of load that is supplied by their drainage basins and the discharge or quantity of water available for flow. Both are closely related to climate, which not only includes precipitation, evaporation, and seasonality but also controls the extent of the vegetative cover of the land and the type and intensity of…
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Although smaller in size, the Scandinavian Ice Sheet was similar to the Laurentide in character. At times, it covered most of Great Britain, where it incorporated several small British ice caps, and extended south across central Germany and Poland and then northeast across the northern Russian Plain to the Arctic Ocean. To the east in northern Siberia and on the Arctic Shelf of Eurasia, a number of small ice caps and domes developed in highland areas, and some of them may have coalesced to form ice sheets…
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Another loess-paleosol succession occurs in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Austria, where loess blankets terraces of the major rivers that drained eastward and southward from the principal glaciated areas in the Alps and northern Europe. As in China, buried soils are common in the loess succession and, along with gastropod shells, provide paleoclimatic data and evidence for climatic change. The climatic cycles varied from cold and dry conditions when loess accumulated to warm and wet conditions with…
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Definition of the base of the Pleistocene has had a long and controversial history. Because the epoch is best recognized for glaciation and climatic change, many have suggested that its lower boundary should be based on climatic criteria—for example, the oldest glacial deposits or the first occurrence of a fossil of a cold-climate life-form in the sediment record. Other criteria that have been used to define the Pliocene–Pleistocene include the appearance of humans, the appearance of certain…
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The change to a cooler, dry, seasonal climate had considerable impacts on Pliocene vegetation, reducing tropical species worldwide. Deciduous forests proliferated, coniferous forests and tundra covered much of the north, and grasslands spread on all continents (except Antarctica). Tropical forests were limited to a tight band around the equator, and in addition to dry savannahs, deserts appeared in Asia and Africa. Both marine and continental faunas were essentially modern, although continental faunas…
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After this follows the Neogene Period. The Neogene encompasses two epochs, beginning with the Miocene (23.03-5.33 Mya) and followed by the Pliocene (5.33-1.806 Mya). The Pleistocene (the "Ice age", 1.806-0.0115 Mya) and the current epoch, the Holocene, beginning eleven thousand five hundred years ago are now (2009) included in the Quaternary Period. Though traditionally the Holocene is treated separately, it may in fact just be the latest interglacial of the Pleistocene. This display includes the Miocene…
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In the middle Eocene, grasslands had not yet spread North America was dominated by forest and forest mammals as seen above. The odd-toed perissodactyls, such as the Palaeosyops in the rear center had already appeared. In the trees next to them are the primitive rodent Ischyrotomys and the primate Smilodectes. A group of primitive tapirs (Helatetes) are in the center of the frame. Just in front of them, looking at a group of Orohippus (a perrisodactyl), is a predatory Patreofelis. Just below a…
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