Chronicles of the Past
While the plough teams were busy on the fallowfallowFallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles. The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil borne pathogens by …
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What are examples of traditional gender roles? For example, girls and women are generally expected to dress in typically feminine ways and be polite, accommodating, and nurturing. Men are generally expected to be strong, aggressive, and bold. Every society, ethnic group, and culture has gender role expectations, but they can be very different from group …
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What did Napoleon do in the French Revolution? He launched a series of committees, which over several years saw the creation of the Civil Code of the French People. This code clarified the laws of the French Revolution, and was better known as the Napoleonic Code. When did Napoleon become first consul? In August 1802, …
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Who was the British’s most trusted guerrilla during Japanese occupation? Spencer Chapman, a British army officer highly decorated for his military record in Malaya, once called Chin Peng “Britain’s most trusted guerrilla representative.” In 1945, he participated in a victory parade in London and was honored with an appointment to Officer of the Order of …
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Battle of Monterrey, Mexico The Battle of Monterrey was the US Army’s first major encounter with urban warfare. Is urban warfare the hardest? Urban warfare is the hardest type of warfare that any nation can ask its military to conduct. It is more difficult, more complex than any other—not least because urban terrain is not …
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Why did they sign the Munich Agreement? Hitler had threatened to unleash a European war unless the Sudetenland, a border area of Czechoslovakia containing an ethnic German majority, was surrendered to Germany. The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from …
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What is the problem with the Irish border regarding Brexit? The impact of Brexit on the Irish border and its adjacent polities involves changes in trade, customs, immigration checks, local economies, services, recognition of qualifications, medical cooperation, and other matters, now that it is the only external EU land border between the United Kingdom and …
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What did Roman women wear for underwear? Women’s Underwear Ancient Roman women wore a light tunic right over the body called interior or subucula, which was a kind of ancient underskirt, with a type of underpants called subligar and a band called marmillare, to protect their breasts. Did Roman woman wear underwear? Romans did not …
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What was the sword of the Ottomans? A kilij (from Turkish kılıç, literally “sword”) or a pusat is a type of one-handed, single-edged and curved scimitar used by the Seljuk Empire, Timurid Empire, Mamluk Empire, Ottoman Empire, and other Turkic khanates of Eurasian steppes and Turkestan. What were Ottoman swords made of? Ahmet Ayhan in …
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Why is January 1 the first day of the year? January 1 Becomes New Year’s Day As part of his reform, Caesar instituted January 1 as the first day of the year, partly to honor the month’s namesake: Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, whose two faces allowed him to look back into the past …