Gandhi and India’s independence
Indian National Congress (1885) with Gandhi in it Indian National Congress By the 1880s, India was becoming a very poor country. That was because the British government made all their choices [...]
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Deccan kingdoms in India
Deccan kingdoms: Krishna Deva Raya (possibly), ca. 1500 AD India when Europeans arrived In 1498 AD, when Vasco da Gama first sailed to Calicut in south India, most of South India was part [...]
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British India – history of India
British India: Muhammed Shah, Mughal emperor 1702-1748 End of the Mughal Empire In the early 1700s, the Mughal Empire was collapsing. The Mughal emperors couldn't really control it anymore, and India was [...]
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Who was Hipparchus? Greek astronomy
Antikythera mechanism: a clockwork machine to calculate how the earth and the sun move around When did Hipparchus live? Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician in the 100s BC, in the time [...]
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The historian Herodotus – Ancient Greece
A story from the historian Herodotus: Stone statues of Kleobis and Biton Herodotus: "Father of History" Who was Herodotus? People sometimes call Herodotus the "father of history." Classical Athens More [...]
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Greek literature – ancient Greece
Greek literature: the poet Sappho There's a lot of it The Greeks wrote a great deal, and a surprising amount of what they wrote is still available to us today, [...]
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07, 2017
Defeat at Thermopylae – Second Persian War
Thermopylae The Spartans fought the Persians at the mountain pass of Thermopylae for three days, while the other Greek soldiers got safely away to the south. At the end of three [...]
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07, 2017
Second Persian War – ancient Greece
Gold coin of Xerxes (or another Persian king) After the Athenians beat the Persians in the First Persian War, at the battle of Marathon, the Persians left the Greeks alone for [...]
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07, 2017
Sicilian expedition – Peloponnesian War
Alcibiades (from a later portrait done after he was dead) The Peloponnesian war was not going so well for Athens. So the Athenians decided to try a really dramatic, aggressive [...]
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Battle of Marathon – Pheidippides
Miltiades' bronze helmet from the Battle of Marathon Pheidippides runs to Sparta to get help The Athenians took up a strong position in the hills around Marathon and (according to [...]
