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239 A pair of lateen (triangular) sails could catch side winds Sail made from fibre matting The stern post was carved into the s ...

Throughout history, wars have broken out between tribes or nations over land, resources, and status. Methods of fighting changed ...

(^3) SWORD Swords are weapons for close combat (hand-to-hand fighting). They have a point for stabbing, and one or two sharp edg ...

A revolution is a sweeping social change that takes place in a short period of time. This is often violent, as unpopular governm ...

243 ◀ RUSSIAN REVOLUTION The Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power in Russia in October 1917 and founded the firs ...

From the late 18th century, the invention of machines that could do things faster than ever before brought dramatic changes in t ...

245 ▲ NEW TOWNS In the factory areas, villages grew into huge towns almost overnight. Workers’ houses were built as cheaply as p ...

Wherever people have lived together in large numbers, diseases have spread. As ships travelled around the world, diseases like b ...

247 ◀ HYGIENE Until the 1860s, people did not understand the importance of hygiene in preventing infections. Surgeons did not ev ...

Before money existed, people traded by bartering, or swapping, different goods. The problem with bartering was that each trader ...

This bank note from Rome was issued in 1786 Japanese ingot coins in the 17th century were hammered gold or silver bars 249 5 4 6 ...

The 20th century saw more changes in the way people lived their lives than any other century. Among the century’s many new inven ...

TRAVEL The developments in transport in this century allowed people greater freedom to travel. Millions of families bought cars, ...

PICTURE GALLERY David Teniers’ 1651 painting Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Picture Gallery features one of the greatest art co ...

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254 Some artists seek to create a beautiful object, others use art to reveal something about the world. In the past, art also se ...

255 Terracotta Army In 209 bce, more than 8,000 life-sized pottery figures of soldiers were buried to guard the tomb of China’s ...

1 The art and science of designing buildings and other structures is known as architecture. From early times, people designed bu ...

Some 3,000 air-filled foil panels that form the exterior can be lit from within to match the home team’s colours The opera house ...

From a fire-breathing dragon to a four-leaf clover, people use symbols – images, objects, and figures – to represent abstract id ...