The Progressive Era In Depth

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The Middle Ages or Medieval Period occurred between the fall of Rome in 476 AD and Europe’s Renaissance period beginning around the 14th Century. It was marked by religious fervor and crusades, as well as agricultural advances and population growth.

Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, celebrates Judah’s liberation of Judaism in Israel when there was only enough oil to light the menorah for one day, but it burned for eight.

John Locke was an Enlightenment thinker, writer and educator, whose work and life have had important and lasting impacts on human governance, curriculums and philosophy.

With the outbreak of World War One as a distraction, the Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire took horrific efforts to force the Christian Armenian minority from their homeland, seeking an ethnically pure Islamic Turkey and resulting in the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

Deemed America’s most commercially successful artist during the late 19th- and early 20th-Centuries, Howard Chandler Christy illustrated his Christy Girls, setting the tone for the idealized feminine form and fashion.

The existence of Satan—or the Devil—has been deeply embedded in religion, making an appearance in the Old Testament’s Book of Genesis in the form of a serpent whose temptation of Eve and later Adam, led to their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

The Mayans were a dominant civilization in Mesoamerica from 1800 BCE until they mysteriously vanished around 900 AD, leaving behind archeological ruins and societal impact that still reverberates today.