Weekly History Quiz No.247
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Christmas History Quiz 2024
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Weekly History Quiz No.246
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Weekly History Quiz No.245
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Weekly History Quiz No.244
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Weekly History Quiz No.243
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Weekly History Quiz No.242
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Weekly History Quiz No.241
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Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple
Reading time: 6 minutes For almost ten years, debate has raged over the book Dark Emu by Aboriginal historian Bruce ...
Weekly History Quiz No.240
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Weekly History Quiz No.239
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Weekly History Quiz No.238
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Weekly History Quiz No.237
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Our mapping project shows how extensive frontier violence was in Queensland. This is why truth-telling matters
Reading time: 6 minutes First Nations people please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including ...
Weekly History Quiz No.236
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DNA from elusive human relatives the Denisovans has left a curious mark on modern people in New Guinea
Reading time: 5 minutes An encounter with a mysterious and extinct human relative – the Denisovans – has left a ...
Weekly History Quiz No.235
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Weekly History Quiz No.234
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Weekly History Quiz No.233
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David Grann’s The Wager: a drama of murder, insurrection, escape and an empire at sea
Reading time: 7 minutes In 1740, a modest squadron of ships from Britain’s Royal Navy departed Portsmouth in pursuit of ...
Weekly History Quiz No.232
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Weekly History Quiz No.231
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What was the Medieval warm period?
Reading time: 6 minutes What was the Medieval warm period? What caused it, and did carbon dioxide play a role? ...
Weekly History Quiz No.230
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Weekly History Quiz No.229
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Weekly History Quiz No.228
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Why the Anthropocene began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century
Reading time: 5 minutes The toppling of statues at Black Lives Matter protests has powerfully articulated that the roots of modern racism ...
Weekly History Quiz No.227
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From whistling arrows and trumpeting elephants to battle cries and eerie horns, ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies
Reading time: 6 minutes As if the tumultuous din of battle is not horrendous enough, over the ages humans have ...
Weekly History Quiz No.226
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World’s earliest evidence of a successful surgical amputation found in 31,000-year-old grave in Borneo
Reading time: 5 minutes Modern medicine seems to advance with time thanks to research breakthroughs. Hence it’s often thought that ...
Weekly History Quiz No.225
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Weekly History Quiz No.224
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Weekly History Quiz No.223
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Weekly History Quiz No.222
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Weekly History Quiz No.221
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Weekly History Quiz No.220
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We have revealed a unique time capsule of Australia’s first coastal people from 50,000 years ago
Reading time: 5 minutes Barrow Island, located 60 kilometres off the Pilbara in Western Australia, was once a hill overlooking ...
Weekly History Quiz No.219
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Weekly History Quiz No.218
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Weekly History Quiz No.217
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Weekly History Quiz No.216
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Weekly History Quiz No.215
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Weekly History Quiz No.214
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General History Quiz 213
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General History Quiz 212
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General History Quiz 211
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General History Quiz 210
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Ancient DNA reveals the earliest evidence of the last massive human migration to Western Europe
Reading time: 6 minutes Nomadic animal-herders from the Eurasian steppe mingled with Copper Age farmers in southeastern Europe centuries earlier ...
General History Quiz 209
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General History Quiz 208
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Forget ‘Man the Hunter’ – physiological and archaeological evidence rewrites assumptions about a gendered division of labor in prehistoric times
Reading time: 8 minutes Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and ...
General History Quiz 207
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General History Quiz 206
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General History Quiz 205
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General History Quiz 204
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The discovery of the lost city of ‘the Dazzling Aten’ will offer vital clues about domestic and urban life in Ancient Egypt
Reading time: 6 minutes An almost 3,400-year-old industrial, royal metropolis, “the Dazzling Aten”, has been found on the west bank ...
General History Quiz 203
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General History Quiz 202
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Swedish Viking hoard: how the discovery of single Norman coin expands our knowledge of French history
Reading time: 5 minutes In the autumn of 2020, I was contacted by the field archaeology unit of the Swedish ...
General History Quiz 201
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In a first discovery of its kind, researchers have uncovered an ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed
Reading time: 7 minutes For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are ...
General History Quiz 200
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General History Quiz 199
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General History Quiz 198
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General History Quiz 197
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General History Quiz 196
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General History Quiz 195
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An incredible journey: the first people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
Reading time: 5 minutes The size of the first population of people needed to arrive, survive, and thrive in what ...
Christmas History Quiz 2023
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General History Quiz 194
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Game Of Dominoes: Australia’s Security And The Cold War 1947-1991 Conference
Two-Day Conference – 13th & 14th APRIL 2024 - Melbourne This conference, organised by Military History & Heritage Victoria and ...
General History Quiz 193
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Stonehenge first stood in Wales: how archaeologists proved parts of the 5,000 year-old stone circle were imported
Reading time: 6 minutes According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose History of the Kings of Britain was written in 1136, ...
General History Quiz 192
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General History Quiz 191
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WW2 History Quiz
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General History Quiz 190
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General History Quiz 189
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Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa
Reading time: 4 minutes Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a ...
General History Quiz 188
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General History Quiz 187
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General History Quiz 186
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General History Quiz 185
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Are we learning the wrong lessons from history?
Reading time: 7 minutes Can historians influence government policy? Should they? And, if so, what kinds of historical knowledge should ...
General History Quiz 184
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General History Quiz 183
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Linguistics locates the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion – with Indigenous seafaring people in eastern Taiwan
Reading time: 5 minutes The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on ...
General History Quiz 182
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General History Quiz 181
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General History Quiz 180
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5,700 years of sea-level change in Micronesia hint at humans arriving much earlier than we thought
Reading time: 4 minutes Sea levels in Micronesia rose much faster over the past 5,000 years than previously thought, according ...
The original kamikaze: Kublai Khan’s invasion shipwreck found?
Reading time: 4 minutes Archaeologists from the University of the Ryukyus in Japan have discovered part of a 13th century ...
General History Quiz 179
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Have humans always gone to war?
Reading time: 5 minutes The question of whether warfare is encoded in our genes, or appeared as a result of ...
General History Quiz 178
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General History Quiz 177
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Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536, what historians and scientists believe was the ‘worst year to be alive’
Reading time: 5 minutes It’s only February and already 2022 is shaping up badly. A huge volcanic eruption off the ...
General History Quiz 176
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General History Quiz 175
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