Who were the Manchu? Central Asian History
The Manchu leader Nurhaci (1600s AD) Where did the Manchu come from? The Manchu people were descended from the Jurchens. They spoke a language probably closely related to Turkic and [...]
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Modern Afghanistan – Central Asian History
Modern Afghanistan: the Dar-ul-Aman Palace outside Kabul (1920s) World War I From 1880 until the end of World War I, the British controlled Afghanistan along with British India. Afghanistan mostly [...]
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Sher Ali Khan and Afghanistan – Central Asian History
Dost Mohammed Khan In 1834 AD Dost Mohammed Kahn pushed aside Ahmed Shah Durrani's grandson to become the ruler of Afghanistan. He found himself caught ruling a small, poor country [...]
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Shah Durrani and Afghanistan – Central Asian History
Ahmad Shah Durrani's burial mausoleum (Kandahar, Pakistan) Afghanistan after the Mongol Empire After the Mongol Empire collapsed, Afghanistan's land was mostly split between the Mughal Empire of India and the Safavid [...]
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What are vaccinations? Definition of vaccination
Children being vaccinated A vaccination is a way to keep animals (both people and other kinds of animals) from getting sick when viruses get inside their bodies. The earliest kind [...]
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Early Humans – Evolution Science
Early humans: Skeleton of early human Lucy, from about 3.2 million years ago When did the first humans evolve? About six million years ago, the earliest people evolved from earlier [...]
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History of Pottery – Clay Pottery
History of pottery: Philistine pottery (compare Mycenaean Greek pottery) What is pottery? Pottery is dishes, plates, cups, cooking pots, and storage jars made out of clay. People make dishes and pots [...]
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History of Music and Musical Instruments
A rock gong in Africa from the Stone Age The first music Birds probably made music long before people, perhaps soon after they evolved in the late Jurassic period, about [...]
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What is travertine? History of Architecture
Is travertine marble? No. The travertine is the white stone in between the bricks (This is from the Colosseum in Rome) Is travertine marble? Travertine is a kind of sedimentary [...]
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Greek and Roman houses – History of Architecture
A peristyle of a Roman house at Ostia - 200s AD In classical Athens around 500 BC, and throughout the Greek world, people built courtyard houses, like earlier ones in Egypt [...]
