Vox - History playlist. TED Ed - What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary. Interested in Qin Shi Huang’s role in combining the smaller walls in China into the Great Wall?
Watch: Deconstructing History: The Great Wall of China. Qin Shi Huang was also famous for the construction of his army of Terracotta Warriors. Learn more from this TED-Ed Lesson: The incredible history of China's terracotta warriors. TED Ed - The rise and fall of the Inca Empire. What makes the Inca Empire so fascinating to archaeologists and historians is that they specialized in achieving the impossible.
They conquered a huge empire without the use of wheeled vehicles or horses to pull them. They had no system of writing but managed somehow to maintain administrative control of far-flung provinces thousands of miles from their capital. Without survey instruments, blueprints, photographs, and machines for construction, they were still able to produce magnificent mountainside terraces, highways, bridges, cities, towns, temples, and royal estates. Many of their projects were built in seemingly impossible places, including sheer cliffs, steep mountain peaks, and raging rivers.
And they did this in a remarkably short time of less than 100 years. Scholars see the Incas as a people who adopted a very successful, alternative approach to some of civilization’s greatest challenges. TED Ed - How the world's first metro system was built. The building of subway systems, often known as metros, should be viewed in the wider context of the development of railroads across the world.
The first lines, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in the UK and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the United States, were developed in 1830. Within a few years, many other nations followed suit. Until then, no one had traveled faster than a galloping horse. Now, whole states—and nations—could be crossed in less than a day. TED Ed - The Silk Road: Connecting the ancient world through trade. Globalization: The conceptof interconnectedness through global world trade, often referred to as globalization, is a hot topic of debate today.
What are the results of modernworld globalization on economy, culture,politics and the environment around the world? Some suggested reading on the issues of globalization: Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief Historyof the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.Print Foer, Franklin. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization.
Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally.
Liu, Xinru. Vale Holden: how America's General Motors sold us the Australian dream. General Motors has announced the Holden brand will be “retired” in 2021.
This week’s announcement has been a long time coming. The Holden brand has been in a state of terminal decline since General Motors ceased local manufacturing in October 2017. A once-dominant presence in the everyday life of Australians, Holden became simply one of many imported cars on offer for the Australian consumer. In 1926, when General Motors set up an Australian subsidiary, management immediately attempted to integrate the firm into the Australian community, importing General Motors public relations practices to Australia. 13 Pictures That Capture the Wonder and Thrill of Archaeology. Digging for archaeology photos in National Geographic’s archive By Anna Lukacs Photo gallery by Sherry L.
Brukbacher “It’s not what you find, it’s what you find out,” says David Hurst Thomas, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Which is to say that finding the artifact or remains of a building on an archaeological dig is only the half of it. If you have archaeological photos of your own, join Your Shot and upload them using #archaeology. ‘Reaper of Death’ tyrannosaur discovered in Canada China's 'hardware capital' grinds to a halt amid coronavirus fears A new way to profit from ancient Alaskan forests—leave them standing Did early humans in India survive a supervolcano? Stone tools hint that the population weathered the biggest eruption in two million years, but some researchers aren’t convinced. Black Death discovery offers rare new look at plague catastrophe Oldest evidence of modern bees found in Argentina The world wants to eat more octopus.
TED Ed - The history of chocolate. Cocoa grows only 20° north and south of the equator.
Click here to see the major growing regions. TED Ed - The history of tea. Our history of tea begins with the legend of the “divine famer” Shen Nong who is credited in many ancient Chinese texts with various agricultural accomplishments.
However, some scholars of ancient China now believe Shen Nong might in fact originally have referred to a group of people, living within China and utilizing particularly advanced agricultural techniques for the era. Over time this people’s knowledge of farming was canonized in the form of legends about a divine farmer who shared their name, and whose fame ultimately eclipsed their own.