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Category: history
STEM challenge: Design a Greek Temple
There are certain design styles that are eternal. They come back into style over and over again, and one of the most eternal is the Greek columns. You constantly see them brought back whenever a society wants to show they are mature and need to be taken seriously. Look at all of the European capitals…
Design a Siege Tower
When we talk about technology we always think in terms of digital items. We think something that involves a screen most likely because that’s what technology has been recently. But thousands of years ago technological advances were much simpler it was the inclined plane or the screw. When the Assyrian Empire was around they created…
Gilgamesh lesson
Sometimes you have a lesson that the first time you teach it, you have a mild interest in it, and then something catches your interest and suddenly you are much more interested in it. That’s what happened with our Gilgamesh lesson. The first time I taught Ancient History back in Kindergarten, I barely even registered…
Victory in Europe, the end of World War 2
Hi! Future Ticia 2024 here, tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and I thought it would be fun to republish this Victory in Europe lesson which shows how D-Day was part of a massive victory plan among the Allies. Now I return you to Past Ticia 2013. Victory in Europe at the end of…
Roman Mosaic craft
Every now and then I hear about some random location in Europe that is being excavated for some reason, maybe to make a new parking lot, or maybe it’s just the owner decided to fix something, and then we discover a new Roman Mosaic. It kind of amazes me how they pop up all the…