Impact of War World II
In this lesson we will be learning about the impact of WW2and the purpose of the Universal Declaration Human Rights.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the impact of WW2and the purpose of the Universal Declaration Human Rights.
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to the Southern African states as we learn about ancient Namibia, Great Zimbabwe and the Kingdom of Madagascar.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the moments of crisis of the cold war.
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to the early civilizations of Mexico and Mesoamerica as we learn about their society, trade and religion.
Read MoreThis lesson examines Zionism, the partitioning of Palestine, the creation of Israel and conflicts with neighbouring countries.
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to the early periods of Greek history as we learn about the rise of the classical Greece.
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to South America as we learn about the major revolutions taking place across the continent.
Read More1. Which two armies clashed at the battle of Bannockburn?
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History Guild General History Quiz 76See how your history knowledge stacks up. Want to know more...
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We know that some modern human genomes contain fragments of DNA from an ancient population of humans called Denisovans, the remains of which have been found at only one site, a cave in what is now Siberia.
Two papers published in Nature today give us a firmer understanding of when these little-known archaic humans (hominins) lived.
Read More1. Which country manufactured the largest battleships ever made?
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1. Where was the Inca capital?
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In the annual discussion of the Gallipoli campaign Australians...
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1. What is the origin of the name Neanderthal?
Over one hundred years ago, one of the most remarkable operations in military history occurred at the Dardanelles with the evacuation in December 1915 of 83,000 Australian, New Zealand, British and Indian troops from the Gallipoli Peninsula without a single loss of life. It will, as, one contemporary German correspondent reporting from the Turkish lines exclaimed, ‘stand before the eyes of all strategists as a hitherto unattained masterpiece’.
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In 1290 there was an investigation into their complaint and the records of that investigation still survive. The people of Grimsby told the king’s investigators that in the time of King Henry III ‘a certain small island was born’, the distance of ‘one tide’ from Grimsby, and fishermen began to dry their nets there. One day a ship was wrecked on the island, and someone made a cabin from the wreckage and began to live there. That man, the first permanent resident of this new land, began to sell food and drink to passing sailors.
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Since World War II, the United States has lost just about every...
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The Medieval warm period is an asynchronous regional warming caused by natural (not human-driven) climatic variation, whereas we are facing a homogeneous and global warming caused by human activity releasing too much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.