Paper money was invented in China and became widely used by merchants during the Song dynasty (960-1279), principally as proof of cash holdings in state treasuries and for larger trade transactions. #History #China #Commerce #Currency #Money #PaperMoney #SongChina #Trade #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-3002-en/
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In this collection of resources, we examine the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381, a popular uprising that sought dramatic social changes such as the removal of the poll tax, an end to the cap on labour wages, redistribution of the Church's wealth, and the total abolition of serfdom. #History #Peasants'Revolt #MedievalEngland #PeasantUprising #Peasantry #SocialChange #Uprising #WatTyler #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-333-en/
The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum complex in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, northern India. #History #TajMahal #India #Agra #Mausoleum #MughalArchitecture #MughalEmpire #MumtazMahal #ShahJahan #UNESCO #UttarPradesh #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-13735-en/
The Cheka (Vecheka) Secret Police was created by Vladimir Lenin's Soviet government in December 1917 to ruthlessly stamp out all opposition to the Bolshevik Revolution. #History #RussianCivilWar #Cheka #FelixDzerzhinsky #SecretPolice #Vecheka #VladimirLenin #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24925-en/
The Dialogue of Pessimism (circa 1000 BCE) is a Babylonian poem featuring a master and his slave in ten exchanges during which the master proposes an action, and the slave gives reasons for and against its pursuit. #History #Sumer #Script #Mesopotamia #Cuneiform #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2162-en/
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741-1790), was the son and successor of Maria Theresa (1717-1780) and Francis Stephen, aka Francis I (1708-1765), of the imperial house of the Habsburgs. #History #MariaTheresa #HolyRomanEmpire #Enlightenment #HabsburgEmpire #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-29094-en/
History by the Numbers, Volume II brings together twelve visual infographics exploring rulers, warfare, exploration, science, technology, belief, and cultural exchange across world history. #History #Script #Architecture #Crusader #Dynasty #Monarch #Ships #Society #Spices #WomenHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-332-en/
This collection collates articles, definitions, and maps covering the voyages, empires, and exchanges related to Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections of the AP® World History: Modern curriculum. #History #VascoDaGama #TokugawaIeyasu #PortugueseGoa #PortugueseEmpire #ManilaGalleon #KingdomOfKongo #KingPhilip'sWar #HenryHudson #FerdinandMagellan #Encomienda #EastIndiaCompany #ColumbianExchange #Carrack #Caravel #DutchEastIndies #EastIndies #Portugal #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-330-en/
A Supervisor's Advice to a Young Scribe is a Sumerian composition relating a dialogue between an elder scribe and a young graduate from his school. #History #Writing #Uruk #Sumerians #Sumer #Mesopotamia #Cuneiform #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2106-en/
The Pacific War concerned the theatre of the Second World War (1939-45) fought in the Pacific Ocean and eastern parts of Asia between Japan and the United States and its allies. #History #PacificWar #ManhattanProject #BattleOfIwoJima #BattleOfOkinawa #Japan #PearlHarbor #SecondWorldWar #USHistory #USMarines #USNavy #WorldWarII #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-22824-en/
This collection gathers articles, definitions, and maps covering the trade routes, travelers, and networks of exchange related to Unit 2: Networks of Exchange of the AP® World History: Modern curriculum. #History #Timbuktu #SwahiliCoast #SonghaiEmpire #SilkRoad #MongolEmpire #MargeryKempe #MarcoPolo #MansaMusaI #MaliEmpire #KublaiKhan #Kilwa #IbnBattuta #GenghisKhan #Feudalism #BlackDeath #Astrolabe #Camel #Mali #MansaMusa #SonghaiKingdom #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-326-en/
The Battle of Mill Springs (19 January 1862) was the first Union victory in the Western theater of the American Civil War and propelled Union General George H. Thomas to fame. #History #GeorgeH.Thomas #AmericanCivilWar #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-29034-en/
The Nimrud Ivories are a vast collection of figures, panels, and plaques, carved from ivory, dated to the 9th to 7th centuries BCE, discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Nimrud. #History #PhoenicianArt #Nineveh #Kalhu #Dur-Sharrukin #Assyria #AshurnasirpalII #Ashur #Ivory #Nimrud #NimrudIvories #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-784-en/
In Greek mythology, Calypso, whose name means "to hide" or "to conceal," is a nymph best known from Homer's (c.750 BCE) epic The Odyssey for falling in love with Odysseus and imprisoning him on her island, Ogygia, for seven years (or five years, depending on the source), during his long voyage home. #History #Odyssey #Odysseus #Homer #GreekMythology #Calypso #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24943-en/
Assur (also Ashur, Anshar) is the god of the ancient Assyrians who was elevated from a local deity of the city of Ashur to the supreme god of the Assyrian pantheon. #History #Neo-AssyrianEmpire #Marduk #Assyria #Assur #Ashurbanipal #Ashur #ArslanTashAmulet #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-269-en/
Ninurta (identified with Ningirsu, Pabilsag, and the biblical Nimrod) is the Sumerian and Akkadian hero-god of war, hunting, and the south wind. #History #Ninurta #Mesopotamia #Kalhu #AshurnasirpalII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10530-en/
The Maginot Line was an extensive series of fortifications built by France through the 1930s to protect its eastern borders from German attack. #History #MaginotLine #Fortifications #France #FrenchArmy #SecondWorldWar #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-23862-en/
A Japanese carrier force attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawaii, on 7 December 1941 and so brought the United States into the Second World War (1939-45). #History #Hawaii #ImperialJapan #PacificWar #PearlHarbour #SecondWorldWar #USNavy #USPacificFleet #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2954-en/
The North American P-51 Mustang was a long-range fighter aircraft used by the air forces of the United States and Great Britain during the Second World War (1939-45). #History #Aircraft #FighterPlane #KoreanWar #RAF #SecondWorldWar #USAAF #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-28747-en/
Although certainly less well-known than Greek or Roman mythology, the rich history and mythology of the Maya shine in this accessible book by Mallory E. Matsumoto. #History #Mythology #Colonialism #Cosmology #IndigenousAmerica #Maya #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-547-en/
Two major revolutions remade the world between 1750 and 1900. #History #MeijiRestoration #MeijiPeriod #JohnLocke #AmericanRevolution #Agriculture #Britain #Enlightenment #Industrialization #Industry #Japan #SuezCanal #UnitedStates #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-334-en/
The Battle of Fort Donelson (11-16 February 1862) was a Union victory in the Western theater of the American Civil War on the Cumberland River near the Tennessee-Kentucky border. #History #UlyssesS.Grant #AmericanCivilWar #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-29130-en/
Union Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote (1806-1863) came to national attention during the American Civil War following his naval victory over Confederate land forces at the Battle of Fort Henry (6 February 1862) in a joint mission with the army under Ulysses S. Grant. #History #UlyssesS.Grant #AmericanCivilWar #A.H.Foote #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2994-en/
The Battle of Fort Henry (6 February 1862) is often referenced as the first major Union victory in the Western theater of the American Civil War, but it was not. #History #P.G.T.Beauregard #AmericanCivilWar #A.H.Foote #UlyssesSGrant #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-29099-en/
The Pacific War (1941-45) contributed many lasting innovations and developments to global warfare. #History #Warfare #PacificWar #AircraftCarrier #AmphibiousLanding #AtomicBomb #ImperialJapan #SecondWorldWar #USHistory #USMarines #USNavy #War #WorldWarII #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2995-en/
This collection of resources presents the Pacific theatre of the Second World War (1939-45), which saw the expansion of the Japanese Empire before the USA was brought into the conflict following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. #History #Warfare #PacificWar #ImperialJapan #SecondWorldWar #USAirForce #USArmy #USHistory #USMarines #USNavy #WorldWarII #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-329-en/
James Buchanan (1791-1868) was an American politician who served as the fifteenth president of the United States. #History #JamesBuchanan #DredScottDecision #AmericanCivilWar #Slavery #USHistory #USPolitics #USPresidents #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-27916-en/
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by US President Abraham Lincoln on 1 January 1863, at the height of the American Civil War (1861-1865). #History #AmericanCivilWar #AbrahamLincoln #RadicalRepublicans #Reconstruction #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-26510-en/