Why was the Great Wall of China built? It was built to protect the territory of the new Chinese empire, to protect the silk road, because the labor was available, the emperor wanted to be remembered, and as a show of power. The official length of the Great Wall of China is 21,196.18 km long. […]
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What does it mean to impeach a president? Impeachment is the process by which any federal official can be charged for doing something wrong and then removed from office. When we think of impeachment, we probably think of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump being impeached. Or perhaps we think of Richard Nixon resigning before he
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Were gunslingers real? There were people in the Wild West who were employed to shoot people, or who did it for other reasons, but they weren’t called gunslingers. That term didn’t come into existence until 1920. The image we have of gunslingers is pretty much entirely a myth that we can thank the Spaghetti Westerns
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What happened to the Donner Party? They got stuck on the Sierra Nevada mountain pass while migrating to California and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. The events that they are famous for happened in the winter of 1846 to 1847, but they started to migrate in the spring of 1846. The Donner party
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Which came first, the orange fruit of the color orange? The fruit came first. Oranges were first called oranges in the 13th century. The word orange was first used as a color in 1502. Oranges are not just one fruit. There are over 400 different types of orange around the world, and they all have
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Did dinosaurs really have feathers? A lot did, but, then again, there were a lot that didn’t. And they were more a kind of fluff than the feathers that we see on birds today. The idea that dinosaurs might have had feathers was first put forward in 1876. A British biologist called Thomas Huxley realized
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Why was the abacus invented? It was invented because merchants needed to keep an inventory, trade was taking off, and the powers that be wanted their tax.. The English word abacus came from the Latin word abax, which came from the Greek word abax, which meant table or tablet. It could have come from an
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Why doesn’t the Autobahn have a speed limit? The Autobahn didn’t have a speed limit when they were introduced in Germany and it was left without one. Trying to apply a speed limit later on was met with a lot of resistance. Germany is the only country in the world that has roads without speed
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What are pyramids for? Some pyramids are tombs, some are just monuments, and many are for religious or ceremonial purposes. There are a lot of pyramids, such as the ones in Mexico, that people don’t really know the purpose of. People tend to think that the Great Pyramids in Egypt are the only pyramids that
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Why did the Watergate Hotel cause the downfall of Nixon? It didn’t necessarily cause his downfall, but it was the first domino that fell, and it was his coverup of what happened that sealed his fate. Richard Nixon became president in 1968, beating the Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, who was the vice president at the
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