Earth’s last remaining hunter-gatherers Most of Earth’s population hasn’t been classed as hunter-gatherers for a very long time. In the British Isles, people had stopped living this way by the start of the Iron Age which started around 800 BCE and gave people...
How did the Irish survive the potato famine? Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland suffered a period known within the country as the Great Famine or Great Hunger but known to people outside Ireland as the Irish potato famine. During this time, around 1 million people lost...
How did animals survive the asteroid? Today there are over 10,000 species of birds on Earth, many of which have descended from their ancestors that were alive at the same time as the dinosaurs. There are also many other creatures like reptiles and small mammals that...
How did the American frontiersman survive the wilderness? The frontiersmen are one of the images usually associated with early American exploration, with their fur hats and flintlock muskets, trekking through the wilderness looking for new lands to settle and mineral...
How did the Viking settlers survive in Greenland? The first Europeans credited with discovering Greenland were Vikings who ventured across the North Atlantic Ocean from their settlements in Iceland. These fearless seafarers, known as Norsemen or Norse settlers, played...
The Franklin Expedition One of the most disastrous Arctic voyages of all time The Franklin expedition was one of the many attempts to find a route across what has come to be known as the Northwest Passage. During the 1800s, the power of nations depended on wealth, and...
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