This year, I learned about the slave trade in social studies. It was such a dark time in our history, and the effects are still lasting today. The trauma hasn’t been erased, which is why I think it is important to revisit the incident so we don’t repeat the same mistakes. The Atlantic slave trade…
Juneteenth (June 19th) is an official annual holiday to celebrate the legal end of slavery in the US. After many recent racially motivated attacks, this seems like a sigh of relief for many. On June 19, 1865, American troops arrived in Texas and informed enslaved people that the civil war had ended and slavery had…
We can’t just skip over the Roman Empire when we’re discussing world history, right? With midterms or finals coming up, I wish you the best of luck and hope this blog will help you with your revision. A noticeable piece of information that is skipped is in fact, one of the most famous stories. You’ve…
Voila, I present to you: the Persian Empire, and Greek city-states. Those marble busts of philosophers and mathematicians that you’ve seen in the museums, and 300 (the movie) are probably what come to mind right now. But, first things first, 300 is a restricted movie, so make sure you get parental permission to watch it. And well,…
If John Green’s Crash Course World History videos were not enough, here’s more for you “WHAPpers” (World History AP students). While Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Indus Valley may not be the places that human beings, Homo sapiens, originated, but they are where the first human civilizations rose. So, let’s start our crash course here. Before…