Dutch Art and the Middle Class     Throughout history,the wealthy have been the most avid art collectors. Indeed, the money necessary to commission leading artists to ...

Classical Greek Tragedy       In 534 B.c.E. the city-state of Athens in what is today Greece added performances of tragedies to its annual festival honoring the go...

TF阅读真题第848篇Wool production in Europe on the high Middle Ages

Lenape Horticulture       Older scholarship on Native Americans assumed that, at the time of their first contact with Europeans, Native Americans in the northeaste...

Mars's Disappearing Atmosphere   For about the first billion years of its life, Mars was probably a watery planet. There are signs of past water in surface features, such as d...

题目： Carbon Dioxide Levels in the Ocean The concentration of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) is rising in the atmosphere, and some of this CO2 is taken up by ocean surface waters. To ...

Reconstructing the Spread of the Grain Weevil Perhaps the most common, most widespread, and arguably most destructive pest of stored grain in history is the grain weevil Sitophilu...

The Early Iron Age     During the Bronze Age (roughly 3300-1200 B.C.E. in the Middle East), civilizations were limited in their use of iron. Most iron occurred not in ...

题目：     Prosperity in British North America     The British colonies of North America developed at a remarkable pace throughout the later colonial period. ...

The Deforestation of England Today's typical English countryside of rolling green fields and few trees did not evolve naturally. England was originally wooded. Forests of oak and ...