Week 6 Study Terms Flashcards
1
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The Somme
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A battle in Northern France during the first world war on July 1, 1916
2
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Agincourt
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A battle in October 1415, the English, under King Henry V, won an unexpected victory against a much larger French force
3
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Cunaxa
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A battle fought in 401 BCE between Artaxerxes II and his brother Cyrus the Younger for control of the Persian Empire
4
Q
John Keegan
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Author of “The Face of Battle”
5
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“History from below”
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The challenge of writing the history of ordinary people, or people not in power
6
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Sensory history
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Relatively new field of history, tries to reconstruct the past using all five senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch - and examines the role our senses played in the past
