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History: Sound smarter without trying harder
History: Sound smarter without trying harder
History: Sound smarter without trying harder
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Did you skip your history homework? Have you confused Charlemagne with champagne? Fear not! Spanning from the ancient world to the present, The Very Lazy Intellectual: History introduces you to the world's most important historical figures and events. With information on Alexander the Great to the Vietnam War, you'll no longer have to refer to Cesar as the "salad dressing guy."
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Release dateSep 1, 2012
ISBN9781440559037
History: Sound smarter without trying harder
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    History - Adams Media

    The Very Lazy Intellectual

    History

    Sound smarter without trying harder

    Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    Avon, Massachusetts

    Contents

    Introduction

    Ancient Greece

    Greek Gifts

    Middle Ages

    The Beginning of the End

    The Conquest of America

    The Silent Army

    The Legacy of Christopher Columbus

    The New World

    A New Country

    The War Begins

    The Nineteenth-Century Indian Wars

    The Civil War

    Costs of War

    Casualties of the Ten Largest Battles of the American Civil War

    The Spanish-American War

    Antarctic Exploration

    Further Adventures

    The Panama Canal

    Interest Builds

    Taking Flight

    Russian Revolution

    World War I

    The Great Depression

    The Nuclear Age

    World War II

    The United Nations

    The Korean War

    The Korean Police Action

    The Vietnam War

    The War Grows

    Cheat Sheet for History

    Also Available

    Copyright Page

    Introduction

    If we were to look up the term lazy in a dictionary, we might expect to find some unflattering connotations. Let’s skip over such definitions as adverse or resistant to work, slothful, and sluggish, and adopt a more positive, charitable perspective. If instead we consider lazy as economical or avoiding waste, we get a much better picture of the idea behind The Very Lazy Intellectual series.

    This series of books is a set of short, economical references full of the fundamental knowledge you need to know to sound as if you really know something about a particular academic subject. The Very Lazy Intellectual: History lays out the indispensable facts, crucial high points, and fascinating elements of all of the world’s major historical moments to build your knowledge foundation.

    Whether you want to refresh your memory of a long-since forgotten course, or merely wish to be able to say something intelligent about medieval Europe or Pre-Columbian America, this book will help. Enjoy the low-effort scholarship of The Very Lazy Intellectual: History.

    If you’d like to learn more about history, check out The Lazy Intellectual, available in print (978-1-4405-0456-3) and eBook (978-1-4405-0888-2) formats.

    Ancient Greece

    Greece has had an outsized influence on history, particularly cultural history. Its architecture, art, literature, drama, philosophy, and language are still studied and appreciated as providing the roots for later development in those fields. Greece had established civilizations by the time of the Bronze Age (about 2800 B.C.), and its extensive coastline meant that new cultures continually migrated to its islands. Poor soil influenced Greeks to turn to the sea for commerce and expansion, and by

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