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3 days ago · The classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is based upon cultural regions, geography, and linguistics. Anthropologists have named various cultural regions, with fluid boundaries, that are generally agreed upon with some variation.
4 days ago · Borderlands history provides rich insights into this particular ambiguous, diffuse, heterogeneous, indeterminate, and unstable world of border making, crossing, and contestation, situational identity formation, transnational and transimperial connections and exchanges, and multiethnic and multiracial commingling in ways that elude the more ...
5 days ago · Map, graphic representation, drawn to scale and usually on a flat surface, of features—for example, geographical, geological, or geopolitical—of an area of the Earth or of any other celestial body. Globes are maps represented on the surface of a sphere.
3 days ago · Summary. Overview of factors contributing to the Industrial Revolution: workforce, raw resources, capital, inventions, and technology. Impact on transportation and trade enabled by the steam engine. Transformation of the textile industry through inventions like the spinning Jenny and power loom.
4 days ago · Big History is an academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present. Big History resists specialization, and searches for universal patterns or trends.
4 days ago · In terms of contributions to geography, the Romans made significant contributions in both historical and regional geography. Figures such as Strabo and Ptolemy made noteworthy advancements in these fields, contributing to a better understanding of the physical and mathematical aspects of geography.
2 days ago · History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. [6] [7] Historians debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects.
