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The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the American Civil War, and Gen. George Pickettâs infantry charge on July 3, 1863, was the battleâs climax. Had the Confederate Army won, it could have continued its invasion of Union territory. Instead, the charge was repelled with heavy losses. This forced the Confederates to retreat south and end their summer campaign.
This lesson we will be learning about Muhammad’s successors after his death and the rise of the Umayyad and the Abbasid Empire.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the developments that made World War l different from previous wars.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the events that unfolded during the Rwandan genocide and the lack of international intervention.
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In a series of conferences in a succession of European palaces, Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau of France, Woodrow Wilson and dozens of other leaders conspired, harangued and horse-traded from 1919 to 1921. Under clouds of cigar smoke, between servings of foie gras and champagne, they redrew a large swath of the globeâs map.
Their guiding principle for redrawing the map, at least in most cases, was the reigning concept of race nationalism, whatâs often called today ethno-nationalism.
Read MoreThis lesson we will be learning about the Heraclian and Isaurian dynasties and the reasons for the reduction in size of the Byzantine Empire.
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to the late Byzantine Empire as we learn about the last Byzantine dynasty and the fall of Constantinople.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the east African Empires, where we discuss the characteristics of the kingdoms.
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to the Southern African states as we learn about ancient Namibia, Great Zimbabwe and the Kingdom of Madagascar.
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Madison Moulton Looking out at the North Sea â the body of...
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The Castle is situated on the West African coast, formerly and notoriously known as the âWhite Manâs Graveâ. The castleâs origins can be traced to a lodge built by Swedes in 1652. Nine years later, the Danish built a fort on the site and called it Fort Christiansborg (âChristianâs Fortressâ), named after the King of Denmark, Christian IV.
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Homo erectus is now extinct. This enigmatic human ancestor probably evolved in Africa more than 2 million years ago, although the timing of their disappearance is less clear.
Homo erectus was in the news over 2018 thanks to new discoveries in the Philippines and China, which have transformed our understanding of this not too distant family member.
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It was estimated by Force 136 that they recruited around 20,000 indigenous personnel for operations in Burma. A few hundred of them are on my Men of SOE Burma page, compiled by going through several files of training cards. While the research for that page has provided excellent insight into a cross section of the many Burmese peoples who served with SOE, most of the 20,000 will remain unaccounted for because there is no record of them. Sadly, this means that their service will never be recognised outside of their own families.
In this lesson we will be learning about Prussia and how it functioned under the rule of Frederick the Great.
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A browse through any military history book will no doubt bring up titles of famous officers, often bearing unusual, surprising, or sometimes downright hilarious nicknames. In many cases, itâs clear where the sobriquet originated, while other examples hold a less-obvious significance.
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Mary Beard, professor of classics at the University of Cambridge, has recently been at the receiving end of a âtorrent of aggressive insultsâ for suggesting that Britain under the Roman empire â which at its height stretched from northern Africa to Scotland â was ethnically diverse. The trouble started when Beard described an educational cartoon produced by the BBC, which included a black Roman solider in Britain, as âpretty accurateâ.
In this lesson we will be learning about evolution of Hinduism as a synthesis if cultures and traditions including the Indo-Aryan Vedic religion.
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A key site in our understanding of Homo erectus, at Ngandong, in Java, Indonesia, has until now defeated all attempts at reliable dating since it was first excavated more than 90 years ago. With the aid of new techniques, we have now found that the Ngandong Homo erectus fossils are the most recent known specimens, dating from between 117,000 and 108,000 years ago.
This lesson we will be learning about the Germanic tribes, the ancient nomadic civilization that laid the foundation for modern Europe.
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