Iran in the 1800s: Amir Kabir
Amir Kabir, who ruled Iran in the 1800s Nasser al-Din and Amir Kabir Mohammed Qajar died in 1848, a year of revolution and democracy in Europe. In Iran it brought change [...]
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Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee – Sioux history
Sioux history - Red Elk Woman, a member of the Sioux When did the Sioux first meet Europeans? In the 1500s and 1600s AD, Sioux people - Lakota people - were still [...]
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08, 2017
The Shoshone fight the United States
Shoshone history: a Shoshone woman and baby The Shoshone get horses After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 AD, some Shoshone people in Wyoming bought horses. These horse-riders split off from the other Shoshone and [...]
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08, 2017
The United States expands – American history
What Europeans were claiming In 1803, the French emperor Napoleon needed money to rebuild France's army after the French Revolution. So he agreed to sell France's land in North America to the newly [...]
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08, 2017
The Crow get horses – American history
Crow men: later Crow history Crow people get smallpox and measles In the 1600s AD, Crow people were still living in the Dakotas. But they caught smallpox and measles from their neighbors, the Mandan, and many Crow [...]
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08, 2017
Californians fight the Missions
Ohlone people crossing San Francisco Bay, with a European wool blanket (Louis Choris, 1816 AD) Native people in California In 1500 AD, California was a popular place to live. About [...]
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08, 2017
American economic history
Women and men farming in south-eastern North America (1500s AD) Just as in India,China, or Europe, most of the people who lived in North America around 1500 AD were farmers. There were also some [...]
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06, 2017
Where do oranges and lemons come from?
Oranges and lemons come from earlier fruits; this is a type of citron called Buddha's Hand Wild ancestors of oranges and lemons The first wild ancestors of oranges and lemons [...]
