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The Black Death: the Plague that Sowed Terror and Death in Medieval Europe - Part 2
... Society without Cats Remember that when the plague struck Europe, the continent was undergoing a deep economic crisis ... of bad harvests and excessive overcrowding. In medieval Europe one of the main predators of the black rat was the ... above all black cats, were exterminated in many regions of Europe because they were considered animals linked to ...
ancient-origins - 13/09/2015 - 04:12
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The Indo-Europeans: In Search of the Homeland
... has long since established that the civilisations of Europe, Persia, and India are linked, linguistically and ...
ancient-origins - 22/06/2018 - 17:12
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Ancient Continent Discovered Hiding Beneath Europe
A mega-continent has been discovered that slid beneath Europe hundreds of millions of years ago. A mega-continent has been discovered that slid beneath Europe hundreds of millions of years ago. While today we ... Adria slid beneath the landmass that is today southern Europe and researchers have now visually recreated the lost ...
ashley cowie - 12/09/2019 - 13:59
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4,700-Year-Old Tooth Provides Insight on the First Farmers of the Iberian Peninsula
... the area currently known as Turkey and entered into Europe before branching out to follow two different routes: one headed for Central Europe through the Danube, and the other for the Iberian ... marked by the Mediterranean Sea. Some human groups in Europe implemented a new and revolutionary way of life, ...
Marilo - 05/09/2015 - 02:57
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Europe’s First Murder Victim found in Cro-Magnon Rock Shelter
The data books have a fantastic new entry – Europe’s oldest murder victim on record, in a cave in ... France. The data books have a fantastic new entry – Europe’s oldest murder victim on record, in a cave in ... the earliest evidence of modern humans ever discovered in Europe. Just earlier this year, a digital reconstruction of ...
Sahir - 11/03/2023 - 17:57
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Bronze Age Money: Early Metal Artifacts May Be Europe’s First Currency
Did the occupants of Central Europe in 2,000 BC have a functioning monetary economy? Said ... from the Netherlands. Did the occupants of Central Europe in 2,000 BC have a functioning monetary economy? Said ... are “the oldest known form of money from prehistoric Europe ,” according to Maikel H. G. Kuijpers, who, along ...
Nathan Falde - 21/01/2021 - 18:01
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Indigenous Uruguayan DNA Reveals Ancestry New To South America
A new study presents the first whole genome sequences of Uruguayan indigenous peoples, whose last remnants were wiped out in the 18th century through a series of targeted European military campaigns. The Uruguayan DNA study shows that the indigenous peoples of Uruguay had an ancestry that was previously unknown in South America. Surprisingly, there is a genetic connection to the ancient peoples of Panama and eastern Brazil but not to modern Amazonians.
Sahir - 12/05/2022 - 18:44
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Did the Conquest of the New World Save the Spanish Empire?
... the following century. While Spain did not fare so well in Europe, its overseas empire was prospering. Although the ... Columbus, who had proposed a western sea route from Europe to Asia. Incidentally, Columbus had earlier presented ... Troubles At Home In the meantime, the Spanish in Europe had gotten themselves involved in the Italian Wars, a ...
dhwty - 23/03/2020 - 12:53
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Forget Folk Remedies, Medieval Europe Spawned a Golden Age of Medical Theory
... rational enquiry, and formal teaching, then medieval Europe produced one of the most influential and scientific ... scientific methods. And it was in the 11th century that Europe witnessed a medical revolution. Scholars and ... to come. By 1200 the Articella was accepted throughout Europe as the foundation of medical education. Medieval ...
ancient-origins - 07/02/2017 - 13:44
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Culturally Misunderstood: The Struggles and Advances of Early American Women
... due to Catholicism , a widely followed religion in Europe, having a distaste for divorce. The Native American ...
Anthony Ruggiero - 11/08/2020 - 23:08
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Ancient DNA Sheds Light on the Mysterious Origins of the First Scandinavians
... that our species originated in Africa and likely reached Europe from the southeast no later than 42,000 years ago. ... permanent ice sheet covered northern and parts of central Europe, modern humans in southwest Europe were isolated from groups further to the east. Jan ...
ancient-origins - 12/01/2018 - 01:48
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Ancient Skeletons Change History: Farming Invented Multiple Times Across the Globe
... the new Neolithic lifestyle appeared in southeastern Europe and shortly afterwards in Central and Mediterranean Europe. Konjan Cham River near Chogha Golan, Iran. [Image ... of the Fertile Crescent, are neither the main ancestors of Europe's first farmers nor of modern-day Europeans. "This ...
ancient-origins - 16/07/2016 - 03:41
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The Rule of the Benedictines, the Black Monks of Europe
... after the death of its founder, the order flourished in Europe, and became an important institution in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. As a consequence, its ... the great importance of St. Benedict in the history of Europe and Christianity, it seems that there was little ...
dhwty - 06/12/2019 - 14:06
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Romania’s Bermuda Triangle: The Creepy Hoia Forest of Transylvania
... Triangle of Romania , and probably all of eastern Europe. Map showing location of Gura Baciului archaeological ... researchers to represent some of the earliest farmers in Europe. This makes the site significant for understanding how agriculture came to Europe and how much immigrants from Anatolia contributed to ...
Caleb Strom - 26/03/2021 - 14:02
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European Governments Offered Rewards for Native American Scalps
If watching The English, the Prime Video series, you may have been surprised at the depiction of a chilling character named Black-Eyed Mog. An English settler who decorated her wall with Native American scalps, her portrayal begs the question of whether this was common practice in the battle for domination by European settlers over Native American indigenous peoples of North America.
Cecilia Bogaard - 13/12/2022 - 01:00
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Searching for Celtic Trade Routes and the Stories Behind Them
Before the Roman Empire dominated Europe, a group of tribes known now as the Celts created a ... a new light on European origins. Excavations in Central Europe proved that before the Roman Empire dominated Europe people already had a well working trade route. They ...
Natalia Klimczak - 30/09/2016 - 14:46
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The Renaissance: The ‘Rebirth’ That Changed the World
... the Renaissance is commonly thought of as a time when Europe made great advances in the sciences and the arts, as ... over time the Renaissance would spread to other parts of Europe as well. From Darkness to Light: The Origins of the ... to these two historians. The so-called ‘rebirth’ of Europe may be considered from two different angles. On the ...
dhwty - 23/12/2019 - 23:05
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Unexpected and Gruesome Battle of 1250 BC Involved 4,000 Men from Across Northern Europe
... is unlike anything else from the Bronze Age in Northern Europe, where, researchers thought, large-scale warfare ... away—Poland, Holland, Scandinavia and Southern Europe. The hand-to-hand combat of the battle, which may have ... magnitude in the entire ancient world. War was central to Europe’s first civilisation – contrary to popular belief ...
Mark Miller - 24/03/2016 - 20:42
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New Barrier Reef Find Proves Australians Didn’t Learn Pottery from Europe
... resources, and we know that they predate the arrival of Europe and therefore rewrite the history of Australia ( ... Reef Find Proves Australians Didn’t Learn Pottery from Europe ...
Sahir - 13/04/2024 - 17:53
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Discovery of Tooth Reveals When Giant Hippos Roamed Britain
... is a now extinct species of giant hippo that once roamed Europe much before the last glacial period. Hippopotamus ... is a now extinct species of giant hippo that once roamed Europe much before the last glacial period. In the much ... in Somerset. (Neil Adams / University of Leicester ) Europe Before the Last Ice Age and Continental Drift With an ...
Sahir - 12/10/2021 - 01:19