Weekly History Quiz No.250
1. What is the town of Bury St Edmunds named after?
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Weekly History Quiz No.249
1. Who painted Boating on the Seine in 1879?
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Weekly History Quiz No.248
1. When did the most recent ice age end?
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Weekly History Quiz No.247
1. Who built the tower of London?
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Christmas History Quiz 2024
1. Where did the custom of decorating a Christmas tree originate?
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Weekly History Quiz No.246
1. Who created Knight, Death and Devil in 1513?
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Weekly History Quiz No.245
1. Who was an Official Australian Photographer during both WWI and WWII, as well as accompanying three Antarctic Expeditions?
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Weekly History Quiz No.244
1. Founded in 1540, which organisation was better known as the Jesuits?
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Weekly History Quiz No.243
1. Which Native American confederation reached an agreement of mutual defense and trade with the British colonists at Plymouth in 1621?
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Weekly History Quiz No.242
1. Which country made huge profits from the Mexico-Manila galleon trade from 1565 to 1815?
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Weekly History Quiz No.241
1.The 1915 Gallipoli landings involved soldiers from the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand and which other country?
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Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple
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Farmers versus foragers is a huge oversimplification of what was a mosaic of food production. After all, Australian landscapes differ markedly, from tropical rainforest to snowy mountains to arid spinifex country. For many Aboriginal people, the terms “farming” and “hunter-gatherer” do not capture the realities of 60 millennia of food production.
