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====A Great Resource for History Teachers==== * [[51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers]]

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How did the Fall of Constantinople change the Renaissance in Italy
...le: Constantinople.jpg |250px|thumbnail|left|Sultan Mehmet I the conqueror of Constantinople]] ...s capital fell to the Ottoman Turkish army, and this was the effective end of the Byzantine Empire, which had endured for almost 1000 years.

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Media History Top Ten Booklist
...megaphone implied that people as a mass were pliant, susceptible to a sort of top-down manipulation that sits uneasily with most historians, with their c ...andscape” of rural France. (Anyone who remembers ''The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights'' can take relish in his work.)

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History of Sex (American Version) Top Ten Booklist
...unnies.jpg|200px|left|thumbnail|Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy by Carrie Pitzulo]] ...roughout its history. These books seek to explain and place American views of sex in an historical perspective. As per usual, we included some caveats an

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Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist
...mericanColossus.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H.W. Brands]] ...ther words, several of these books are seeking to create a grand narrative of the era to help their readers understand it.

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Social History of American Medicine Top Ten Booklist
...u. It is probably the one book on the list that most historians are aware of and that is why we left it off. ...9c0f7dba5f7ec American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science] (Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint edition 1992) and Judith Walz

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When were Electric Cars Invented
...hat has some ways to go before they become common. However, electric cars' history goes back to the 19th century, as people experimented with electricity and ==The Early History of Electric Cars==

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How did ancient Professional Armies develop
...x-Victory_stele_of_Naram_Sin_9066.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Figure 1. Stele of Naram-Sin (2254–2218 BC), an Akkadian king, standing over his enemies and ...and empires to compete more with each other, helping to develop a variety of other social and technical innovations, including shaping our own world.

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How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well
...e of the 20th century. <ref>American Chemical Society, “The Development of the Pennsylvania Oil Industry,” 2009.</ref> ...6531b9cd0d8bea4" Dictionary of Canadian Biography]'', (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959).</ref>

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Which Guns Won the American West
It rode on the hip of Buffalo Bill Cody, Teddy Roosevelt, Judge Roy Bean and Pat Garrett, the she Out on the open range the gun of choice for ranchers and frontiersmen was a lever-action repeating rifle. Aw

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What are the Origins of Astronomy
...and mathematics Mesopotamia see: Hodgkin, Luke Howard. 2013. ''A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity''. Oxford: Oxford University Pre ...in agriculture and religion, see: Olson, Richard. 2010. ''Technology and Science in Ancient Civilizations. Prayer Series on the Ancient World''. Santa Barba

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How did Manufactured Glass Develop in the Bronze Age
[[File:Uluburun3.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|Blue glass bar of the Uluburun Shipwreck]] ...and Gerry Martin. 2002. Glass: A World History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</ref> Perhaps the earliest glass anywhere comes from the an

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What Caused the Rise of Agriculture?
...D. 2010. ''What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West''. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.</ref> ...n: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms''. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press.</ref>

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What Role did the Motorcycle and Harley-Davidson play in Wartime
..._82nd_Armored_Reconnaissance_Battalion.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|Members of of 82nd Armored Reconnaissance on Harley Davidson WLAs during WWII]] ...icant impact by a gasoline-powered machine in modern warfare. And the role of the military motorcycle continues more than a century later.

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How did Navigation Develop in the Ancient World
...vigation increasingly made movement by sea easier over time; however, much of this knowledge that facilitated movement was accumulated knowledge that too However, such as knowledge of astronomy grew and reached a critical threshold, we begin to see rapid deve

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What has been the Role of Horses in Human Societies
...as war animals, while in other places and periods there use was the privy of royalty. ...n, John Storer, et al. 2005. “Evolution, Systematics, and Phylogeography of Pleistocene Horses in the New World: A Molecular Perspective.” Edited by

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How did climate change influence the rise and collapse of the ancient Maya
...ical force. While the Maya, as a people, persisted long after the collapse of the Classical Maya civilizations, their cities were much reduced or abandon ====Rise of the Maya====

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How did eugenics develop and why did it persist into the late 20th Century
..., and most importantly, white, were considered “fit”. Eugenics is a “science” predicated upon racism, classicism, and sexism – so why in the world w ...r Domestication.</ref> He called this theory “pangenesis”. Ever heard of it? Probably not, as it was dead wrong!

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How Did Early Mathematics Evolve
...rise of early mathematics, see: Bell, Eric Temple. 1992. ''The Development of Mathematics''. New York: Dover Publications.</ref> ...of property, sharing of resources, accrual of wealth, and track the motion of the planets and stars, which all required more complex mathematical develop

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Make It Rain: Interview with Kristine C. Harper
...e University of Chicago Press] explores the bizarre and ridiculous history of state-funded attempts to control the weather. ...inkId=a600610f4135a3ed07d654cf017dd3a8 Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology].

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