Discover the history and impact of the Age of Exploration, which lasted from the early 15th century to the end of the 17th century.
Alexander Young is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Washington who has studied Spanish and German.He told i100.co.uk he created these maps of how constants sound across Europe after noticing that different languages had very different ideas about what to do with the letter J. ...
The United Kingdom is a nation in north-western Europe, including the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, small islands and fourteen overseas territories, the last pieces of the British Empire, which included approximately a 1/4 of the world's landmass at its height
The Romance languages constitute a diverse group of contemporary linguistic systems that have evolved from Late Latin and its colloquial manifestation, commonly referred to as Vulgar Latin.
From 5,500BC to how you commute to work today.
Some believe that geography is boring or ‘dry’, and think that looking at a map will never catch their interest. Well, chances are that their mindset can be changed with the maps on today’s list.
The Trove digital service has been releasing some of the more quirky old maps of Australia, starting with a graphic dividing the country up into the sheep haves and have-nots.
At the end of the last Ice Age, Britain was joined by a land bridge to northern Europe.
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The Battle of Penn Hill was fought in AD 665 between a British and an Anglo-Saxon coalition at Penn Hill in northern Dumnonia, the precise location of which is unknown. It resulted in a decisive British victory, and reversed the Saxon expansion westwards across Albion. Germanic migrants, mainly from the Angle, Saxon and Jutish tribes, began arriving on the east coast of Albion in the mid-5th century, during the chaos following the Roman withdrawal from the provinces of Britannia. They quickly pe
Regarding the last one: What the hell, Spain?
The first in-depth genetic scan of the British Isles shows their violent history of invasion after invasion lives on in the people.
From Beowulf to Wikipedia, here’s how English grew, spread, and changed.
A good map is worth a thousand words. A bad one, on the other hand, is just one, and usually a pretty ugly one.
Whether you're a Michigander or a visitor, get to know the Michigan Great Lakes with this list of interesting and insightful facts and stats before you explore!
Ideas and activities for learning, building and writing about landforms. See our imaginary islands and creative narrative writing about landforms.
Australia is a continent like no other.
Gedeeltelijke aftekening van een manuscript kaart van Chr.Sgrooten, circa 1569-1573, die zich bevindt in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België te Brussel, vervaardigd in opdracht van Alva. Onderaan…
Source: FamilyBreakFinder.co.uk From Giggleswick to Dull the UK has many weird, silly, odd and rude place names, which you can see in the map above. The full list of places can be found below: Ae. Barton in the Beans. Beer. Besses o' th' Barn. Blubberhouses. Brawl. Botusfleming. Brokenwind...
The coolest gif you'll see all day.
#Map: Predominant Ethnic Groups in Europe http://t.co/yPJNlT5Ys6 #Slavs #Franks #Celts
With the free Google Earth, you can learn latitudes and longitudes, distances and how the world’s nations and continents are laid out
Since the last time we wrote about Terrible Maps, a project that is dedicated to sharing maps no one asked for or needs, they've kept themselves rather busy. So it's only natural we created a follow-up article about the cartographers who are so bad, they're actually good. After all, what is the Internet for if not to poke fun at politics and our geographical illiteracy?
Regarding the last one: What the hell, Spain?
Including some disturbing news for America.
The graphic is intended as a mind map or a checklist for kick-starting world-building exercises. At its heart, it reminds us that things are connected.
Map the ocean floor, identifying the major mountain ranges and rifts, learn about ocean currents and color a map of the prevailing currents on earth, make an ocean in a bottle craft and then round it out with an ocean lapbook.
The etymology of the different words for tea reveals the history of the spread of tea-drinking culture and trade from China to countries worldwide. Almost all the words for tea worldwide fall into three broad groups: 'te,' 'cha,' and 'chai,' present in English as tea, 'cha' or 'char,' and 'chai.'
From Beowulf to Wikipedia, here’s how English grew, spread, and changed.
Indo-European languages, family of languages spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of Southwest and South Asia. The 10 main branches of the family are Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Germanic, Armenian, Tocharian, Celtic, Balto-Slavic, and Albanian.
The Roman Empire at its Greatest Extent, 116 AD. A Political Map of Rome's Provinces And Its Surrounding Areas.
Germany is the 2nd-most populated nation in Europe after Russia. Germany has the largest economy in Europe, the world's 4th-largest economy by nominal gross domestic product, and the 5th-largest by purchasing power parity. Nowadays, about 13.3% of Germans have a migrant background.
A note from the creator of this map: "Quality of education greatly influences IQ scores, i.e. a lower average IQ is more indicative of lower access to wide-scale quality education rather than innate intelligence."
