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Baron Steuben Drilling Continental Soldiers at Valley Forge
Baron Friederich von Steuben drills Continental soldiers at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778. By Edwin Austin Abbey, sometime before 1911.
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Replica of a Soldier's Hut at Valley Forge
A modern replica of the log huts that the Continental soldiers at Valley Forge lived in; most huts housed twelve soldiers at a time. Photo by Wikipedia user Dr. Blazer, May 2018.
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Rock Drawings of Valcamonica
The rock drawings of Valcamonica are prehistoric petroglyphs carved in the glacier-polished, grey-purple Permian sandstone of the Camonica valley that extends for 90 km in the Italian provinces of Brescia and Bergamo in Lombardy. The name...
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Gandhara Civilization
The Gandhara Civilization existed in what is now Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan from the middle of the 1st millennium BCE to the beginning of the 2nd millennium CE. Although multiple major powers ruled over this area during that time...
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A Valley at Boeotia
The landscape of Boeotia, Greece during the spring from the monastery of Hosios Loukas near the town of Distomo.
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The Vedas
The Vedas are the religious texts which inform the religion of Hinduism (also known as Sanatan Dharma meaning “Eternal Order” or “Eternal Path”). The term veda means “knowledge” in that they are thought to contain the fundamental knowledge...
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Map of the Cradles of Early Civilization - Global Pathways to Agriculture, Urban Centers & Early States
A map of the cradles of early civilization. The pathways toward early civilization between c. 12,000 and 1,000 BCE were neither uniform nor linear. In the wake of the last Ice Age, climatic change encouraged communities in different parts...
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Brahmi Script
The Brahmi script is the earliest writing system developed in India after the Indus script. It is one of the most influential writing systems; all modern Indian scripts and several hundred scripts found in Southeast and East Asia are derived...
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Trade in Ancient Mesopotamia - How Commerce Encouraged Civilization
Local trade in ancient Mesopotamia began in the Ubaid period (circa 6500-4000 BCE), had developed into long-distance trade by the Uruk period (circa 4000-3100 BCE), and was flourishing by the time of the Early Dynastic period in Mesopotamia...
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Animal Husbandry
Animal husbandry is commonly defined as a branch of agriculture dealing with the domestication, breeding, and rearing of animals for various purposes including labor (as in the case of large animals), a food source, protection, and companionship...