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These include things such as toys, weaponry, medicines, musical instruments, and sculpture.

Toys
Weaponry
Medicines
Musical instruments
Sculpture

Toys

Weaponry

c. 1938 - c. 1945 Physicists including Einstein warn the United States government of the possibility that Germany could develop nuclear weaponry. Fermi heads the Manhattan project which demonstrates controlled nuclear fission and develops an atomic bomb.

Medicines

c. 1846 Morton introduces use of ether for surgical anesthesia.

1895 Roentgen discovers X-rays.

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin, the first antibiotic.

c. 1965 Pincus publishes work on human endocrine system that leads to development of a birth-control pill.

Musical Instruments

Sculpture

1497 - 1547 Michelangelo creates artistic works in poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture.


This will include connections to science including physics, chemistry, earth science, and biology. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography are important. There are also connections to anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups. This also has connections to other areas of material culture and to conceptual culture and behavioral culture. Institutions including families, education, economics, government, and religion are also connected.	Links to other sites: Not yet developed
Sociology, including social structure and change is useful. Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul Mexico City, and New York City have influenced miscellaneous artifacts. Various peoples of the world including nations, Asiatic peoples and African peoples can be connected. Nations including China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Russia can be connected. Western Civilization including the United States is important. American Indian peoples such as those found in the United States can also be considered. The history of miscellaneous artifacts depends on particular categories and can be followed up through antiquity. Classical and medieval history including the early classical, late classical, early medieval, and late medieval periods is also useful. It can be followed especially well in the modern period, including the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The 20th century including the early 20th century, the early-mid 20th century, the mid 20th century, the late-mid 20th century, the late 20th century, and the early 21st century can be examined. The future of these is obscure.

This will include connections to science including physics, chemistry, earth science, and biology. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography are important. There are also connections to anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups. This also has connections to other areas of material culture and to conceptual culture and behavioral culture. Institutions including families, education, economics, government, and religion are also connected.

Links to other sites:
Not yet developed

Sociology, including social structure and change is useful. Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul Mexico City, and New York City have influenced miscellaneous artifacts. Various peoples of the world including nations, Asiatic peoples and African peoples can be connected. Nations including China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Russia can be connected. Western Civilization including the United States is important. American Indian peoples such as those found in the United States can also be considered.

The history of miscellaneous artifacts depends on particular categories and can be followed up through antiquity. Classical and medieval history including the early classical, late classical, early medieval, and late medieval periods is also useful. It can be followed especially well in the modern period, including the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The 20th century including the early 20th century, the early-mid 20th century, the mid 20th century, the late-mid 20th century, the late 20th century, and the early 21st century can be examined. The future of these is obscure.