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    The coming of Europeans to India The commercial contacts between India and Europe were very old via the land route either through the Oxus valley or Syria or Egypt. But‚ the new sea route via the Cape of Good Hope was discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1498. Thereafter‚ many trading companies came to India and established their trading centres. They entered India as traders at the outset but by the passage of time indulged in the politics of India and finally established their colonies. The commercial

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    sky another from islam‚ whose caliphs legacy and title the Ottoman sultans claimed; and a third from ancient Rome‚ whose legacy wrenched into their own grasp by conquering much former roman imperial territory. New Land Empires in the Americas History 15 Notes 10/3 European Impact on the World 1. Native Americans: Eliminated‚ Marginated. 2. Everyone affected because of European expansion 3. Divided into Two Ages: ⁃ Age of Colonials 15th-18th Century ⁃ Portuguese‚ later Spanish and

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    The book The Struggle for the History of Education by Gary McCulloch‚ published from Routledge Taylor & Francis Group in 2011‚ maps out the nature of the field and seeks to highlight the sites of struggle. This book suggest that the history of education might seem sedate to the outsider but is actually all about struggle and the object of study is in continual flux. Education is‚ as book traces‚ a site for social progress‚ change and equality‚ struggles for democracy and

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    emphasis.’ Analyse how the relationship between history and memory explores this concept in your texts. Through the representation of history via one’s memory‚ often there are acts of deliberate selection and emphasis to help support an idea. History is a contested version of memory‚ and therefore memory on its own will be more bias and its representation will often have deliberate acts of selection and emphasis‚ used through the book True History of the Kelly Gang by “Peter Carey”. It’s representation

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    Go History‚ Go Hetalia! “The past reminds us of timeless human truths and allows for the perpetuation of cultural traditions that can be nourishing; it contains examples of mistakes to avoid‚ preserves the memory of alternative ways of doing things and is the basis for self-understanding.” This quote by Bettina Drew well-explains how history is important to us as human beings. History helps us know what happened years ago. How it relates to us? Well‚ it helps us learn lessons by going back to

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    History is a valuable‚ yet underappreciated‚ part of American society. The topic of history is a slippery surface for the American public because‚ generally‚ the public would rather learn about encouraging information instead of more controversial topics. For true historians‚ this is a complicated issue for the public needs to be involved‚ but controversial parts of history cannot become contorted or cleansed. Commonly‚ locations of historical significance or historical learning turn into battlegrounds

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    E. H. Carr and the Thesis of What is History? Edward Carr begins What is History? By saying what he thinks history is not…by being negative. In Carr’s words‚ what history is not‚ or should not be‚ is a way of constructing historical accounts that are obsessed with both the facts and the documents which are said to contain them. Carr believes that by doing this the profoundly important shaping power of the historian will surely be downplayed.1 Carr goes on to

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    Why we study history can be traced all of the way back to the scientific revolution and the enlightenment period during the 1600’s. These western scientists rearranged the way governments and people evaluated themselves as societies. They came up with a new system known as the scientific method. The scientific method abandoned the old ideas of tradition based ways of life and implemented new ideas such as reason. Instead of using history to guide them in a way of life‚ history was being used as a

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    History is something we constantly refer to progress ourselves as humans‚ we learn from our mistakes and continue to strive from our successes. But who is to say what is a horrible mistake or a courageous act of valor? That which was documented about what happened so long ago‚ was done by a person who spread the story or wrote it down from their perspective. Howard Zinn’s argument that there is no such thing as impartial history clearly illustrates that when history is recorded there

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    The writer of the Point article‚ "The Value of Teaching History Through Fiction" had the main idea that historic fiction could make readers relate more to the story and might have them want to learn more about the subject. For instance‚ in the Point article it states that‚ "...fiction can make history matter—make it irresistible—to young readers” This tells us that fiction could make historic events seem interesting to readers and make them want to know more about it. Another detail that supports

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