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Negro League Baseball Teams 1920–50
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Negro League Baseball Teams 1920–50
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Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (1920–44): ‘a wasted man with untidy white hair, an emaciated face in which two burning eyes are set like jewels, parchment-like skin split by a crack for a mouth, the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead’. The judge’s... More
Neolithic China c. 4000–2500 BCE
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Neolithic China c. 4000–2500 BCE
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During the Neolithic period in China settlements developed on the main rivers and the coast, supported by farming and domesticated animals, rather than Stone Age hunting and gathering. Along the Yellow River Valley and Wei River tributary, the Yangsao culture flourished, with clans living in moated structures. The earliest of... More
Olmec Civilization 1200 BCE–300 CE
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Olmec Civilization 1200 BCE–300 CE
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The Olmec civilization is believed to have been the first large Mesoamerican civilization in the southern area of modern day Mexico and Guatemala. Architectural and artistic artefacts suggest that the Olmecs made significant cultural contributions to other civilizations in the region; influences from the impressive, distinctively styled Olmec stone head... More
Paleoindian America c. 11,000 BP
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Paleoindian America c. 11,000 BP
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Beringia, a land and ice bridge linking Asia to North America was in existence from about 45,000-14,000 BCE. It is generally agreed that ancient humans reached the Americas by this route during this window. Until recently, it was believed that the arrival was late in the window, and that the... More
Percentage of Women in Total Workforce 1900
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Percentage of Women in Total Workforce 1900
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According to the Department of Labor, in 1900 women over the age of 16 constituted 18.3 per cent of the US labour force. 1900 was the early industrial era and there was a gradual movement away from agricultural trades into manufacturing. Domestic and personal services were still the dominant employment... More
Poland 1580
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Poland 1580
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By 1580, the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth included Lithuania, Prussia, Ukraine and the semi-autonomous principality of Transylvania. The Commonwealth was prosperous, largely through grain exports, with a large landed aristocracy who diluted the power of the monarchy and fostered regional freedom (the ‘golden freedoms’). There was, however, a significant... More
Population Change 1990–2000
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Population Change 1990–2000
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Between 1990–2000 the USA experienced its largest population increase since records began, totalling 32.7 million individuals. This represented a proportional increase of 8.2 per cent of the total population, bucking the trend of declining proportional increases each decade since the high of 18.4 per cent from 1950–60. The western states,... More
Pre-Roman Gaul
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Pre-Roman Gaul
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Julius Caesar discerned three broad divisions amongst the inhabitants of Gaul. The Belgae of the north were similar to, but wilder than, the Celtae of the centre, while the Aquitani tribes of the Southwest were entirely distinct in appearance and customs. Prior to Caesar’s conquest, most of the southern littoral... More
Race Prevalence in the United States 2000
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Race Prevalence in the United States 2000
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The history of the United States has tended to encourage a degree of racial and ethnic clustering. The mass importation of African slave labour still leaves the imprint of the plantations on the demography of the South. The mass deportation of Native Americans from their homelands to reservations is similarly... More
Range of the Buffalo 1660–1889
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Range of the Buffalo 1660–1889
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In 1600, the North American bison population (called ‘buffalo’ by early American settlers) was c. 25–30 million. The first European impact was indirect: the introduction of the horse to the Native Americans. This improved their hunting efficiency, and encouraged tribes to the east of the plains to engage in hunting.... More
Red River War 1874–75
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Red River War 1874–75
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The Medicine Lodge Treaty (1867) allocated Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche and Arapaho reservations east of the Texas Panhandle, but the industrial-scale extermination of bison by commercial hunters soon threatened them with starvation. Incited by a spiritual leader who claimed he could make them bullet-proof and invisible, some 300 Indians attacked the... More
Resettlement of the Danube Basin c.1720
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Resettlement of the Danube Basin c.1720
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From the 16th century, the Danubian basin became the natural battleground of repeated wars between the Ottomans and the Habsburgs. After relieving the third Siege of Vienna (1683) and further victories confirmed by the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718), the Habsburgs could finally expel the Ottomans from the basin, and embarked... More