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History of Islam: Lesson for Kids | Study.com - 0 views

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  • The Birth of IslamA man named Muhammad was born around 570 CE in the city of Mecca, in what is modern-day Saudi Arabia. Muhammad's parents died when he was young, and as a teenager, he was forced to work as a caravan leader. He was very good at his job; when he was older, the owner of the caravan, an older woman whose husband had died, proposed to him. Muhammad was now wealthy and had plenty of time to think about his faith. The wickedness and greed of his people worried him. He also didn't like that the people were worshiping idols, or false gods, instead of Allah so he prayed for his people. Muslims believe that Muhammad received a revelation from Allah in 610 telling him to preach to his people. These were the first revelations of the Qur'an.
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Middle Ages for Kids: Knight's Coat of Arms - 0 views

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  • Red was the color of a warrior and nobility. Other colors included blue for truth and sincerity, black for piety and knowledge, and green for hope and joy. The colors in heraldry are called tinctures.
  • the lion stood for majesty and strength, the elephant for wit and ambition, the boar for courage and ferocity, and the sun for power and glory.
  • "heraldry"
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  • Knights and nobles in the Middle Ages often had a coat of arms.
  • coat of arms was used to distinguish one knight from another. When a knight had on his full armor, including plate mail and helmet, even his friends couldn't recognize him. Because of this, knights began to paint symbols on their shields.
  • A coat of arms belonged to the family of the knight. He would pass the coat of arms down to his eldest son.
  • job of people called heralds to keep track of the different coats of arms.
  • Knights and nobles in the Middle Ages often had a coat of arms.
    • dcs-armstrong
      dcs-armstrong on 13 Feb 20
       
      Peasants did NOT have their own coat of arms
    • dcs-armstrong
      dcs-armstrong on 13 Feb 20
       
      Peasants did NOT have their own coat of arms.
  • original coats of arms had fairly simple designs
  • As there became more and more
  • designs became more complicated in order for each one to be unique.
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Objectivity and Bias in the Study of History - 0 views

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  • Voltaire pointed out that history is a pack of tricks we play upon the dead.
  • the present can and does influence our knowledge of the past because past events do not any longer exist anywhere except in mind of the historian, who has now become both subject and object.
  • Some people have gone so far as to say that the closest we can get to what actually happened is to believe what the records say actually happened.
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  • Historical thought about the past and all history, consequently, is the history of thought.
  • We can also check one person’s version of what actually happened by comparing it with that of another person or by examining all the relevant sources ourselves.
  • History is not a branch of literature, it is a science.
    • alove_
      alove_ on 18 Oct 19
       
      I would say the opposite...
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The Posterity Project: "History is never true." - 0 views

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  • History, written by a contemporary, is likely to be less accurate, less truthful than the history of the past written by someone living in the present.
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Why every world map you're looking at is WRONG: Africa, China and India are distorted d... - 0 views

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  • The distortion is the result of the Mercator map which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the worldIt gives the right shapes of countries but at the cost of distorting sizes in favour of the wealthy lands to the northFor instance, north America looks larger, or at least as big, as Africa, and Greenland also looks of comparable sizeIn reality, you can fit north America into Africa and still have space for India, Argentina, Tunisia and some left overMap suggests Scandinavian countries are larger than India, whereas in reality India is three times the size The biggest challenge for cartographers is that it is impossible to portray reality of spherical world on a flat map
  • ideological assumptions that can change the way we see the world.
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Translating Archaic Sumerian Cuneiform: Pinpointing Eden, or Kharsag, Garden of the God... - 0 views

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  • Cuneiform was written with the wedge-shaped end of a reed, cutting into a wet clay tablet or cylinder, in many different shapes and styles for different purposes.  It evolved over a long period of time under the direction of scribes in the Near East, Mesopotamia, the wider Fertile Crescent and the Indus Valley, spreading outwards with the subsequent migrations of these people to all corners of the world, including Britain well before 2,000 BC.
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Black Death burials reveal the diversity of London's medieval population - Medievalists... - 1 views

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  • Their findings reveal that while most of the population would be classified as European, close to thirty percent were found to have some heritage outside of Europe – sometimes cases of dual heritage.
  • Many of the African peoples in Europe during this period would have been slaves or at least the descendants of slaves.The authors note that previous research suggests that between they years 1100 and 1400 an average of 5500 people per year were being transported from Africa to Europe through the trans-Saharan slave trade network. Others would have arrived in Europe in various capacities – ambassadors, pilgrims, musicians, soldiers and craftsmen.
  • Other research has found that medieval London was very diverse.
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  • Documentary sources revealed the presence of at least 17,376 individuals of foreign origin were in London between the years 1336 and 1584, as far away as Iceland and India.
  • New research on people buried in London during the Black Death suggests that the city’s population was more diverse than currently believed, including the presence of people with African heritage.
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