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    the artifact is several thousand years old. What if we could place its creation to several decades? Writings say something lived so long ago, or their life time is just a guess. What if we were able to actually give them some numbers to work with? History has always been the product of a lot of guess work. Sometimes first-hand accounts give the details for a clear image of the story. More often than not, the story is not complete. Scientific tools such as radiocarbon dating can fill in the gaps. Unfortunately

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    Diversity In History

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    More Than A Month In all my years as a student, I’ve always been told how important it is to learn about history. History gives us insight to important people and events, and helps us move forward as a society. But what happens when we don’t teach all of history? What do we get when students learned about the rise of fall of the Roman empire for months on end, but they don’t learn about the Egyptian kings and queens? What happens when we talk about our founding fathers that established our nation

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    your own or even other people's ancestry can really help you learn and discover new ideas, and appreciate all that people have done in the past. Don't just wonder about where you came from discover and experience it by visiting those places where history still lives. II. Today I am going tell you about Mexico a place where you can experience an ancient civilization. III. When you think about Mexico the Aztecs might come to mind if your wondering about how they originated.To further inform you

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    Every era in the human history changed the society as a whole. However, there is one that most influenced each of the aspects of people’s lives, and it was the era of the Renaissance. The period made culture, view of the world, and science different from what they were like before. The era of the Renaissance is deliberated by many as "the rebirth" or “the age of Enlightenment.” This period continued from 14th to 17th century, right after the Medieval period, and as it is shown by its name - "Renaissance"

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    One of Cicero’s (a famous Roman philosopher and intellectual)most famous quotes is recorded as being, “historia vitae magistra”, loosely translating to history is the master/teacher of life. I can interpret this as meaning that humans are assured to believe history that is kept, assuming it truth. Despite its apparent metaphorical meaning, this maxim is useful in debates about the reliance of people to the past and therefore its implied veracity. Photography, specifically in contemporary focus, has

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    International Spy Museum- The International Spy Museum, which opened in 2002, is the only one of its kind in the entire world. It is devoted to telling how espionage & spies have shaped the course of history throughout the world, from the Greek and Roman Empires, to the Cold War, to the present day. - Restaurant called Protein Bar National Air and Space Museum-The Museum was established in 1946, and opened it’s main building in Washington DC in 1976,and there is a restaurant called Rasika Washington

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    Evolution of Freedom Through History The relationship of the “historical consciousness” of man and its part in his freedom, is a philosophical ideology discussed by many philosophers. Whether by means of Spirit, Geist, reason, individualism, or other ideas, philosophers have theorized the correlation between history and it unfolding into eventual true freedom. Three such philosophic minds are that of G.W.F. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich) Hegel, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although each

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    Extended Essay in History World War II and the Bosnian Genocide of 1992-1995 Research Question: To what extent did the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia influence the Bosnian Genocide of 1992-1995? Name: Topias Hokkanen Candidate number: 03939051 Session: May 2012 School: Coppell High School Supervisor: Michael Cook Word count: 3,847 Abstract This extended essay deals with the Bosnian Genocide from 1992-1995, where the Bosnian Serb army committed various

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    is worth learning in a boring history class? Things such as The World Wars and The French Revolution might be interesting, but the excitement of a history class comes from the ‘Classics’. A ‘Classic’, as in a classical civilization. They draw the curiosity and interests of students because of their unique marks in history, but what categories does one civilization have to satisfy in order to be a ‘Classic’? It has to be original, influential, and timeless! The Roman Empire and the Greeks are the

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    Pre-Reading 1. My definition of world history is that world history is the study of major events that have happened throughout the world, in the past, that have helped shape our world today. 2. Learning about ancient civilizations and how they lived interests me. Learning about old rulers also interests me. Learning about drinks and how they shaped the world does not particularly interest me to much. Learning about ancient languages does not interest me. In general though, learning

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