For those that like digging up the past, history is on your side, do not give up digging because its through uncovering our past experiences that we manage to handle the hardships we go through today. Well documented history can become a great tool to be used as a guide that will help the modern day humans overcome the challenges they are facing at present. Prepare for the future but never forget about the past” is the common phrase motivational speakers bombard us every single day
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Wheat is now a staple food in many cultures around the world. but this wasn’t always the case. wheat and many other grains such as barley, rice, sorghum and millet were domesticated a few thousand years ago, it is the large scale growing of wheat that allowed populations to grow large and concentrate in […]
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Russia was torn apart by revolutionary disturbances throughout the 1800s, it faced continuing problems in the early 1900s. Russians had long been denied democratic rights and civil liberties, but the revolution of 1905 had brought about no real changes. The elected legislative body, the Duma, had little power. The czar, Nicholas I, did not trust
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Studies of Ape DNA have explained a great deal about how the living apes evolved. The Asian apes evolved first. the line of apes leading to gibbons diverged from other apes about fifteen million years ago, whereas orangutans split off about ten million years ago. Neither are closely related to humans. The African apes evolved
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Germany’s attack on France was launched across neutral Belgium. By September 1914, German troops had reached the Marne River near Paris. However, the French and British armies managed to hold the line, and Paris was saved. France’s success in the Battle of the Marne changed the entire nature of the war. Germany’s hope of swift
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Nationalists in Serbia, whose independence from the Ottoman Empire had been recognized by the Congress of Berlin in 1878, hoped to make their country the center of a large Slavic state. The Serbian nationalists especially wanted the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina because Serbia was landlocked and these two provinces would provide an outlet on
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Before the Industrial Revolution began, Great Britain experienced a revolution in agriculture. This revolution started when British farmers began to fence off, or enclose, common lands into individual holdings efficient for large-scale farming. By the 1800s, because of improvements in agriculture, farmers needed fewer farm laborers. Many unemployed farmworkers moved to the cities, where
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In 1898 the United States became even more deeply involved in Latin American affairs. Its involvement grew out of disputes with Spain. The main cause of tension between Spain and the United States was Cuba, a Spanish colony in the Caribbean. For many years, Cubans had been unhappy under Spanish rule. Nationalists, such as the
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In addition to governing its new and far-flung possessions, the United States suddenly had to prepare to defend them. An example of the problem of defense occurred during the Spanish-American War. Before the war, the American battleship Oregon had been stationed on the Pacific coast of the United States. When war became likely, the Oregon
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The British government ruled India directly after the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857. However, British control of the subcontinent remained essentially the same as it had been under the British East India Company. British India still made up about three fifths of the subcontinent. The rest consisted of more than 550 states, headed by local
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Imperialism was a harsh experience for the entire continent of Africa. The costs and benefits resulting from European expansion were unevenly distributed across the continent. Some individuals and groups in African society did benefit. New agricultural techniques were introduced in many areas. For example, in Uganda, British support of cotton cultivation gave rise to a
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