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