What did ancient Greek music sound like?
Apollo playing the lyre People in ancient Greece loved music, and made it an important part of their lives. Greek people thought of music as a way of honoring the [...]
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What are nomads? Definition and examples
Khoisan painting at Springfontein, Zimbabwe Nomads are people who travel around from place to place without having one settled place where they live. Many are hunters and gatherers like the [...]
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Where did the Visigoths come from?
Danube river The Visigoths, like other German peoples, were originally Indo-European. Their language, Gothic, was closely related to German. We first hear of them when they are living in Poland [...]
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Where did the Ostrogoths come from?
Crimea, on the shores of the Black Sea The Ostrogoths, like the Visigoths, were originally Indo-European. We first hear of them when they are living in Poland around 100 BC. [...]
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Iron Age in northern Europe
Vix crater: a large bronze jar for mixing wine made in Greece and found in a rich woman's tomb in central France (ca. 500 BC) - Iron Age Europe Settlers [...]
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Stone Age in northern Europe
Danube river The first modern humans, the Cro-Magnons, probably walked into Northern Europe from Central Asia around 45,000 years ago. Some followed the fish along the Mediterranean coastline to Greece, [...]
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Who were the Illyrians?
Red arrow shows where Hallstatt is - later the center of the Illyrians ' power. Salt-mining in Central Europe About 5000 BC, not long before the end of the Stone [...]
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What are sedimentary rocks? Shale and limestone
Sedimentary rocks: Limestone cliffs in Saudi Arabia Before sedimentary rocks When the Earth was first forming, about six billion years ago, there weren't any sedimentary or metamorphic rocks. The only [...]
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Salt water and ice – a science project
Salt water and ice: A salt truck spreading salt on the road Why do people put salt on the roads? You can easily see that salty water freezes at a [...]
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Geological eras: a quick summary
Geological eras: Fossil spider from the Cretaceous era Why do we have geological eras? Geologists divide the history of the Earth into eons and eras. That's so they don't have [...]
