Food. The Timucua grew much of their own food and stayed in relatively the same places from year to year. … Religion. We don’t know very much about the religion of the Timucua,since the Timucua kept many of their beliefs secret from the Europeans. Medicine. … Clothing. … Timucua Villages.…
In 1804 Napoleon was voted as emperor by the senate and the people. During that same year The Napoleonic Code was formed. The Napoleonic Code secured the gains of the peasants and middle class during the French Revolution. But the code also took away all the gains made by women…
The Minoan economy was based in the maritime trade of agricultural products like wine, olives, and figs in exchange for minerals and other resources like copper and ivory. To facilitate this trade, the Minoans not only built quality roads that connected their farms and exchange centers to numerous ports around……
Storming of the Bastille. The Storming of the Bastille ( French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]) occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. For…
Moche, also called Mochica, Andean civilization that flourished from the 1st to the 8th century ce on the northern coast of what is now Peru. The name is taken from the great site of Moche, in the river valley of the same name, which appears to have been the capital…
(Show more) Navajo, also spelled Navaho, second most populous of all Native American peoples in the United States, with some 300,000 individuals in the early 21st century, most of them living in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. The Navajo speak an Apachean language which is classified in the Athabaskan language…
The Baroque orchestra was relatively small (a small orchestra is known as a chamber orchestra). The orchestra was still evolving during the Baroque period. At first there were no set instruments, but as the 17th century progressed, the orchestra began to take shape. An example of the Baroque orchestra in…
The Anglo-French War (1202-1214) watered down the Norman influence as English Normans became English and French Normans became French. Now, no-one was just ’Norman’. As its people and settlements were assumed into these two larger kingdoms, the idea of a Norman civilisation disappeared. The German invasion of Greece, also known…
In both efforts, the Mongols directed Korean shipbuilding and militarization towards the amphibious assault of the Japanese coasts and pressed a large proportion of Korean naval and infantry forces into the service of Mongol military objectives. Did the Mongols ever invade Korea? The Mongol invasions of Korea (1231–1259) comprised a…
The Civil War is the first war in which railroads were a major factor. The 1850s had seen enormous growth in the railroad industry so that by 1861, 22,000 miles of track had been laid in the Northern states and 9,500 miles in the South. The amount of rail produced…