………………… was the first to assume that colour and light are of the same nature and the discoverer of the curvature of light through atmospheric refraction.

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• ………………of 11th century proposed the idea that rainbows were the result of the contacts between sunlight and moisture in the air, while Shen Kuo expanded upon this with the description of atmospheric refraction.
• The goods from the Eastern countries were carried on by the ………………traders either through the Red sea route, overland to the Nile or through the Persian Gulf and then to the Black sea region where European ships came to receive the goods.
• ……………..may be considered as the first writer who has made a tri-partite division to the world history for the first time.
• ………………is generally regarded as the ‘father of optics’ especially for his empirical proof of the intromission theory of light.
• Prior to Mill, the Romantic minded Orientalists like ……………..and later Maximum Muller had valorized the ‘Hindu period’ through a study of Sanskrit tests.
• Feudalism in Europe evolved from agricultural slavery in the …………..Empire and speared through Europe.
• ………………..can be described as a type of government in which political power is exercised locally by private individuals rather than through the bureaucracy of a centralized state.
• ………………… popularized the Rama Bhakti cult in north India through his work, ‘Ramacharit Manas’.
• The Vaishnava Bhakti movement in Bengal was spearheaded by………………, through his famous popular work, ‘Gita Govinda’.
• The system based on agrarian order developed first in Western Europe during the early medieval period and then spread to the other parts of Europe is called………………..