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8 09, 2017

History of Brazil – Brazil and colonization

By |2019-02-22T06:00:17-08:00September 8th, 2017|History, South America, Where|Comments Off on History of Brazil – Brazil and colonization

History of Brazil: The Tapuia people, ca. 1650 (by Albert Eckhout) Tupi war with Tapuia In the late 1400s AD, the Tupi people had just won a big war with the Tapuia people. [...]

13 08, 2017

Louisiana Purchase – American history

By |2019-11-16T10:04:44-08:00August 13th, 2017|History, Native American, North America|Comments Off on Louisiana Purchase – American history

Louisiana Purchase: What Europeans were claiming Before the Louisiana purchase In 1800 AD, Native Americans still controlled most of North America. But Spain, France, Britain and the United States were busy fighting over who got to conquer [...]

7 08, 2017

European Warfare – Military history

By |2018-04-20T08:25:05-07:00August 7th, 2017|Modern Europe, War|Comments Off on European Warfare – Military history

British cannon from the Hundred Years' War (now at Mont St. Michel) Not long before 1500 AD, everything medieval soldiers did in wars suddenly changed. First, Europeans learned how to make and use gunpowder from Central [...]

5 08, 2017

Hanoverian England – Walpole and Pitt

By |2019-09-25T09:11:17-07:00August 5th, 2017|History, Modern Europe|Comments Off on Hanoverian England – Walpole and Pitt

Hanoverian England: King George I of England Why did the Hanoverians come from Germany to rule England? Because Queen Anne had no children, and no Catholic could be king or queen, when [...]

5 08, 2017

French Revolution – History of France

By |2019-06-16T06:57:05-07:00August 5th, 2017|Modern Europe|Comments Off on French Revolution – History of France

French Revolution: French women revolutionaries march on the king's palace at Versailles Why did France want a revolution? All through the 1700s, Enlightenment philosophers in France had been figuring out new ways [...]

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