History Belongs To Us
Connection to History
Category: World History
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Probable Self-Portrait Found in the “Adoration of the Magi.” (1475-1476) Sandro Botticelli Alessandro Filipepi was born in 1445… the perfect time to be an artist. For the first time in hundreds of years, writers, poets, sculptors, and painters were once again admired and respected. Culture was returning, and young Alessandro had the opportunity to spend…
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Sargon Background Check- Sargon’s Rule Sargon’s reign of Mesopotamia began in the year 2334 B.C. His empire would rule for the next 100 years. Under Sargon’s rule, the city-states of Sumer united, and the empire’s boundaries expanded. A new capital was built, trade routes were established, and the Sumerian development of cuneiform writing allowed for…
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Sir Walter Raleigh’s attempts to establish the first English colony in the New World were historically unsuccessful. Regardless, the lessons learned by the English through his failures at Roanoke would serve to insure the monarchy’s future realization of Raleigh’s dream. Failure is often necessary in order to experience success. Raleigh believed that his colonial ventures…
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Thousands of years ago the Earth was an extremely cold place to live. The frigid climate caused water to freeze into large sheets of ice, and the resulting glaciers moved slowly and stealthily across the land, lowering sea levels and exposing new land that had never before been seen. This change in the Earth’s surface…
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Nestled high within the Andes Mountains of South America is a lush, green valley called the Valley of Cuzco. Around A.D. 1200, a native tribe moved into the mountains and established an empire; this tribe was called the Inca. Today, Cuzco is an archaeological dream. Excavations have uncovered the ruins of buildings and cities; artifacts…
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