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The Accounting Tablet

April 26, 2024

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Tablet from the administrative archives of the temple of Ba'u at Lagash quoting the wages due to the different categories of personnel, about the time of Uruinimgina. These accounting tablets represent the first step in the development of the cuneif...

Stele of the ode of Hammurabi

April 26, 2024

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The Code of Hammurabi contains 282 articles of law, which regulate many aspects of Mesopotamian society. The Code governs criminal offences, commerce, marriage, architecture and agriculture. The steles were a means of spreading the laws, and this al...

Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru

April 26, 2024

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A painting depicting the conquest of the Incan Empire by Francisco Pizarro. ...

The Aztec people before European expansion

April 26, 2024

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A mural demonstrating the Exploitation of Mexico by Spanish Conquistadors by Diego Rivera, the work is titled "Le peuple aztèque". ...

Interior of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam

April 26, 2024

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Calvinism has been known at times for its simple, unadorned churches and lifestyles, as depicted in this painting of the interior of the Oude kerk in Amsterdam (south nave), by Emanuel de Witte. ...

Luther lässt 95 sätze gegen den ablass an die scholsskirche zu Wittenberg anschlagen, 1517

April 26, 2024

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A small crowd has gathered to watch as Martin Luther directs the posting of his 95 theses, protesting the practice of the sale of indulgences, to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg. ...

Savonarola and his execution

April 26, 2024

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Hanging and burning of Girolamo Savonarola in Piazza della Signoria in Florence in 1498. This is a 17th-century copy of a contemporary original attributed to Francesco Rosselli. In a contemporary copy from Perugia, the scroll held by angels bears ...

Junius Brutus Stearns, George Washington at his Mount Vernon plantation in Virginia (1851)

April 26, 2024

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This painting titled "Washington as Farmer at Mount Vernon", 1851, is part of a series on George Washington by Junius Brutus Stearns. It demonstrates the colonies in expansion in the 18th century. ...

No taxation without representation

April 26, 2024

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Print shows citizens in Boston burning proclamations from England pertaining to the stamp act of 1765, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. ...

Charles William Jefferys, The battle in Quebec city in 1775 (1916)

April 26, 2024

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This painting demonstrating the invasion of Canada, by Charles William Jefferys, is titled "Arnold's column is shattered in fierce street fighting during the Battle of Quebec." This painting can be used to locate time and space, answering the questi...