World History Questions

The Oseberg Ship was in use for several years before 834 when it was finally used as a grave ship for two important women.

The Oseberg Ship was excavated in the summer of 1904 in the Slagen Valley in Vestfold, by archaeologist Gabriel Gustafson. The ship lay in a grave mound, which had a diameter of 44 meters, on property belonging to the farm Lille Oseberg.

SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) was introduced in May 1972 by the University of Berkeley, California.

The New Jersey Plan was one option as to how the United States would be governed.

The Plan called for each state to have one vote in Congress instead of the number of votes being based on population. Hence, it is called as a small state plan also.

It was introduced to the Constitutional Convention by William Paterson. So, it is also called as the Paterson plan.

Athenians develoed a new, much faster potter's wheel which helped pottery flourish in Athens.

Phoenicians competed with Minoans for control of trading over Mediterranean region. Minoans were the society lived for 500 years in 2000 - 1500 BC. Whereas Phoenicians were the civilization lived across mediterranean region.

Buddhism is a tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development. The founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama. He founded Buddhism in the 5th Century BCE.

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah,[b] was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

The Holocaust originated in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and eventually spread throughout Central and Eastern Europe into countries invaded and occupied by Germany during World War II.

The Nazis were racists and believed their race was more important. Nazis believed that the jews were a problem. Many of the non-germans that were living on the land were sent to concentration camps.

The main place it took place was eastern Germany and Poland. The Holocaust was largely comprised of a vast network of concentration camps in countries including Germany, Poland, Austria, Ukraine, Norway, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, the Netherlands, and France.