Chronicles of the Past
What is the Babylonian accession year? The time from accession to the first New Year’s Day is the accession year. This system was standard in Babylonia at the time of Cyrus’ conquest in 539 B.C.E. ‘ What is an ascension year? The Ascension Year is the year the queens turn sixteen. It marks the start …
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Why is attacking a trench so difficult? This area is not protected from the weapons of either side, and is dangerous to walk through. It is difficult to force the enemy to retreat, because it is too dangerous to move forward over no-man’s land towards the enemy. What was the main problem with trench warfare? …
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Because the US didn’t push into North Vietnam as it had in North Korea where it was threatening China’s border. Why didn’t China intervene in Vietnam? China militarily supported North Vietnam by fighting South Vietnam and the United States in the Vietnam War. However, with the failure of the North Vietnamese and Chinese negotiations in …
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What historically were the purposes of maps? Historians use historical maps for several purposes: As tools for reconstructing the past, to the extent that maps provide records of features, landscape, cities, and places that may not exist any more or that exist in dramatically transformed form. As records of certain historical processes and relationships. What …
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Why was the port of Catoosa built? The delegates convinced Tulsa business leaders that a port would stimulate business. Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce leaders and asked Early Cass, of the water resources committee, to chair a port authority committee. What does the port of Catoosa do? It is a fully equipped multi-modal transportation center …
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At the time of the Industrial Revolution (in Europe), most people of Saudi Arabia were still nomadic. People who are nomads are not likely to build factories to “industrialize.” Did the Middle East industrialize? Oil industrialization in the Middle East was made possible through the building of novel forms of financial, legal, techno-scientific, and social …
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Why did the Ottoman Empire failed to industrialize? While the industrial revolution swept through Europe in the 1700s and 1800s, the Ottoman economy remained dependent upon farming. The empire lacked the factories and mills to keep up with Great Britain, France and even Russia, according to Michael A. Did the Ottoman Empire ever industrialize? In …
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How did Isaac Newton do his research? Isaac Newton’s Telescope and Studies on Light Through his experiments with refraction, Newton determined that white light was a composite of all the colors on the spectrum, and he asserted that light was composed of particles instead of waves.Mar 10, 2015 Where did Newton do his research? Newton …
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Why does Brazil have so many Italians? Italian migration to Brazil began in 1875 when Brazil began to promote migration to the country in order to increase its population and therefore created ‘colonies’ mostly in rural areas for Italians and other Europeans to migrate to. Between 1880 and 1920, more than one million Italians immigrated …
Why did Yugoslavia leave the Soviet Union? Although presented by both sides as an ideological dispute, the conflict was as much the product of a geopolitical struggle in the Balkans that also involved Albania, Bulgaria, and the communist insurgency in Greece, which Tito’s Yugoslavia supported and the Soviet Union secretly opposed. What happened between the …