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| American Revolution 1 For writing about the American Revolution—people, places, events: Thomas Jefferson, Bunker Hill, Boston Tea Party, boycott... revised: Oct 10, 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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American Revolution 2 An expanded version of American Revolution 1, including Olive Branch Petition, John Jay, self-government, writs of assistance... revised: Oct 10, 2005 words: 1300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Assyria Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Assyria: Nineveh, Mesopotamia, palace, winged statue, military... revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Babylon Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Babylon: law, astronomy, Hammurabi, Hanging Gardens, Mesopotamia, Nebuchadnezzar... revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Egypt 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in ancient Egypt, including buildings, kings, queens, pyramids, and religion. revised: Feb 1, 2006 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Egypt 2 Same as Ancient Egypt 1 with the addition of advanced words and names: artisan, conquest, decline, plunder ... Amon-Re, Hyksos, Senusret. revised: Feb 1, 2006 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Greece 1 Basic words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: Jan 17, 2002 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Greece 2 Basic AND advanced words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: Jan 16, 2002 words: 1800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Rome 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in Ancient Rome. Names of famous people and places in the Roman empire. revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Rome 2 Words for Roman religious beliefs, legends, entertainment, achievements, and legacies. Names of people and places in the Roman empire. revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 1200 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Sumer 1 Words and phrases for BASIC writing about life in Ancient Sumer: Ur, Mesopotamia, Babylon, ziggurat, trade route, cuneiform, clay tablet, burial... created: Apr 19, 2002 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Sumer 2 Same as Ancient Sumer 1 but with additional words for ADVANCED writing about life in Ancient Sumer: authentic, economic, sacrificial ... Akkadia, Chaldea, Kudumu... created: Apr 19, 2002 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Arctic Explorers For writing about Arctic explorations: John Franklin, Baffin Bay, starvation, expedition, Roald Amundsen, harbor, Inuit, ice, the Northwest Passage... created: May 23, 2006 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Aztecs For writing about the Aztecs: their way of life, religious beliefs, achievements, and legacies. revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Battle of Britain For writing about the Battle of Britain at the beginning of World War II: battle, pilot, Spitfire, English Channel, attack, parachute, coastal defense... created: Mar 23, 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Cesar Chavez For writing about the life and work of Cesar Chavez: boycott, grape strike, migrant worker, nonviolence, labor union, bracero, discrimination... created: Aug 14, 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Civil War 1 For writing about the US Civil War and events leading up to it: abolitionist, Abraham Lincoln, Fort Sumter, slavery, Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg... revised: Oct 6, 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Civil War 2 All the words in Civil War 1, plus more names, places, and battles: Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Opequon Creek, the Fire Zouaves... revised: Oct 6, 2005 words: 1600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| England 1485 to 1714 Britain in the time of the Tudor and Stuart rulers: famous people and events, plus everyday clothing, food, work, transportation, and entertainment. revised: Oct 13, 2005 words: 2700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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First Nations Eastern Native Americans and First Nations of the eastern US and SE Canada, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi: history, communities, places, way of life. revised: Oct 25, 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| First Nations Northern Peoples of the Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast: Inuit, First Nations, Native Americans—communities, places, history, way of life. revised: Oct 25, 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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First Nations Plains Native Americans and First Nations of the central Great Plains in the US and Canada: history, communities, places, and way of life. revised: Oct 25, 2005 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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First Nations Western |
French Revolution |
| Gladiators Words for writing about gladiators in Roman times: amphitheater, contest, Spartacus, trident, net... revised: Oct 13, 2005 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Great Depression USA For writing about the Depression: Wall Street, stock market, Herbert Hoover, breadline, Dust Bowl, bankruptcy, FDR, New Deal… created: February 1, 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Holocaust |
Immigration Hist N Amer For writing about the history of immigration to the USA and Canada: refugee, Ellis Island, labor, quota, assimilation… created: March 10, 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Industrial Revolution For writing about the Industrial Revolution: steam engine, factory, Henry Bessemer, capitalism, labor pool, tenement… created: November 6, 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Iraq War For writing about the US-led attack on Iraq: the people, leaders, places, equipment, and events before, during, and after the war. revised: Oct 27, 2005 words: 1500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Leonardo da Vinci For writing about the great artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci: drawing, paint, Florence, Mona Lisa, sketch, design, observation... revised: Oct 13, 2005 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Lewis and Clark For writing about the Lewis & Clark Expedition: the people and tribes, camps, forts, rivers, mountain passes, supplies, wildlife, and hardships. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Martin Luther King Jr |
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| Mexican History For writing about the history of Mexico: Aztec, conquistador, Spain, independence, Miguel Hidalgo, Emiliano Zapata... created: Apr 21, 2005 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Napoleon Bonaparte For writing about Napoleon Bonaparte: First Empire, Trafalgar, blockade, Napoleonic Wars, St. Helena, Waterloo, exile… created: October 2, 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Native American History |
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Nelson Mandela For writing about the life of Nelson Mandela: early years, protests against apartheid, imprisonment, and presidency of South Africa. revised: Jan 3, 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Old West Words about westward expansion in the U.S. and Canada: people, places, animals, equipment, and activities. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 1500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Panama Canal For writing about the Panama Canal: Theodore Roosevelt, Cape Horn, Colombia, malaria, laborer, locks, channel, mudslide… Created: May 1, 2008 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Rosa Parks For writing about Rosa Parks and her part in the civil rights movement: bus boycott, Montgomery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, color, courage... created: Jan. 18, 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Russian Revolution |
Sitting Bull |
Slave Trade Britain |
Slavery in USA |
Terrorism |
Thomas Edison |
Titanic Sailing on the Titanic, its parts & passengers; the disaster of the iceberg; the discovery and exploration of the sunken ship. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
U.S. Constitution |
U.S. History thru 1865 Basic words and names covering U.S. history through the Civil War. Does not include Reconstruction. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 2200 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Vietnam War |
Vikings 1 Basic words for writing about the Vikings - people, places, way of life—and their discovery of North America: longship, Norsemen, Eric the Red, Icelander... revised: May 16, 2004 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary | |
| Vikings 2 All the words in Vikings 1 plus more words for their conquests and life in Europe: Gokstad, Mjollnir, Uppsala, quernstone, thane, wergeld... revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 2100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary | William Wallace For writing about the Scottish hero William Wallace: Braveheart, patriot, rebel, victory, battle, armor, betray, Stirling… created: March 10, 2008 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| World War I For writing about World War I: the Allies, trench warfare, poison gas, armor, the Western Front, Woodrow Wilson, the Treaty of Versailles... created: Aug 19, 2006 words: 1500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary | World War II For writing about World War II: Nazi, Hitler, the Allies, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor, the Normandy invasion, concentration camp, Iwo Jima... created: Dec 11, 2005 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Wright Brothers For writing about the Wright Brothers, their invention of the first controlled, powered airplane, and the first flights in it. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |