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| Gutenberg Press IDuring the late 1430s in the Rhine valley city of Strasbourg, France, an obscure gem cutter began secretly working on an invention that would change the face of the modern world.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Gutenberg Press IIIn 1455, Johannes Gutenberg began the first book printed in the western world using movable metal type. Those copies of the Gutenberg Bible that have survived are among the most valued artifacts in the world.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Baroque Culture ISome of the west’s greatest artists emerged from the Baroque era--Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rubens and Bernini, and the composers, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Bach and Handel.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 History-Social Science |
| Myanmar's Struggle: Burma IThe lush and beautiful nation of Myanmar, more commonly known as Burma, is in the late twentieth century being forced to confront its lack of human rights and democracy by a diminutive housewife, a mother of two, Aung San Suu Kyi.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lucrezia Borgia ILucrezia Borgia was either one of the most immoral women in history or she was a pawn in the never-ending game of late Italian Renaissance family intrigue. Or maybe she was both.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lucrezia Borgia IIAt the pinnacle of the so-called Renaissance papacy and symbolic of its corruption was the clan Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI, was either a victim of the family's venality or a major perp or maybe even both.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Dutch East Indies IIIn 1602 the government of the Netherlands chartered the Dutch East India Company to expand trading opportunities in eastern Asia. For decades little Holland dominated the European spice trade with the East Indies.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Dutch East Indies IBeginning in the early 1600s, the lure of profits from spices attracted European trading companies to the exotic lands of the East Indies.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Rousseau IIRousseau's early youth, spent in one of Geneva's upper class families, was disrupted by his mother's death and his father's exile. Although a part of the brilliant literary and cultural society of Paris in the mid-1700s, Jean-Jacques Rousseau never felt quite at home.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Rousseau IIn 1712, in the municipal republic of Geneva, Switzerland, was born one of the west's most influential social critics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
