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Technical vs Fundamental Analysis: Two Questions About One Stock
Fundamental analysis asks what a business is worth; technical analysis studies price and volume. How each works, what each assumes, and where each falls short.
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Education guides, page 6
Articles 121–144 of 383, newest first. The introduction to this reading list, its topic hubs and the guides other articles cite most are on the first page.
Education articles 121–144
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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Spread, Deaths and Uncertain Numbers
The 1918 flu pandemic: an H1N1 virus that infected about 500 million people, its waves, and why death estimates run from 17 million to over 100 million.
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The Age of Exploration: Routes, Motives and Consequences
The Age of Exploration in sequence: Portugal's route round Africa, Columbus, Tordesillas and Magellan — plus what drove the voyages and who paid for them.
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The Aztec Empire: Tenochtitlan, Tribute and the Spanish Conquest
The Aztec Empire was a Triple Alliance of three city-states ruling central Mexico from 1428 to 1521. How it rose, how tribute worked and how it fell.
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The Boxer Rebellion: The Siege of the Legations and Its Aftermath
The Boxer movement of 1899–1901: why it rose in Shandong, the 55-day siege of Beijing's legations, the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the 1901 Boxer Protocol.
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The Cold War Explained: A Timeline From 1945 to 1991
The Cold War from 1945 to 1991: containment, the Iron Curtain, the blocs, proxy wars, the nuclear arms race, détente and why it ended twice — in 1989 and 1991.
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The Crusades Explained: Causes, Campaigns and Consequences
From Urban II's call at Clermont in 1095 to the fall of Acre in 1291: why the Crusades began, how the numbered campaigns went, and what they left behind.
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What Was the Enlightenment? Ideas, Thinkers and Their Limits
The Enlightenment championed reason, rights and toleration, yet often ignored women, slavery and race. Its dates, key thinkers and contradictions.
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The Great Depression: Causes, Spread and Responses
The Great Depression from the 1929 crash to the war: bank panics, a 30% fall in the money supply, Smoot–Hawley, the gold standard and why causes are argued.
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The Han Dynasty: Government, Trade and Why It Defined China
The Han dynasty ruled China from 202 BC to AD 220 with a gap under Wang Mang. Its government, coinage, census, Silk Road links and why 206 BC also appears.
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The Korean War: Causes, Course and the Armistice
The Korean War of 1950–1953: the 38th parallel, North Korea's invasion, Inchon, China's entry, two years of truce talks and an armistice with no peace treaty.
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The Marshall Plan: What It Funded and Why It Mattered
The Marshall Plan of 1948–1952: Marshall's Harvard speech, the April 1948 Act, who got the money, why the Soviets refused, and why its total varies.
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The Mexican Revolution: Causes, Factions and the 1917 Constitution
The Mexican Revolution from Díaz and Madero in 1910 to Carranza's fall in 1920: Zapata, Villa, Huerta, US intervention and the Constitution of 1917.
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The Ming Dynasty: From the Hongwu Emperor to 1644
The Ming dynasty ruled China from 1368 to 1644. How it was founded, what the Yongle Emperor changed, and why silver and famine broke it.
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The Greco-Persian Wars: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis
The Persian Wars of 499–449 BC in order: the Ionian Revolt, Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea, and why Herodotus's army of 2.5 million is rejected.
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The Protestant Reformation: How It Began and What It Changed
From Luther's Ninety-five Theses in 1517 to the Peace of Augsburg in 1555: how the Protestant Reformation started, spread and split Western Christianity.
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The Punic Wars: Rome Against Carthage in Three Wars
The three Punic Wars, 264–146 BC: Sicily, Hannibal's march over the Alps, Cannae, Zama and the destruction of Carthage, with the treaty terms and the salt myth.
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What Was the Renaissance? Where, When and Why It Mattered
The Renaissance began in Florence and spread across Europe, but its dates, its name and even its novelty are argued over. What sources actually say.
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The Space Race: Sputnik to Apollo 11
The Space Race from Sputnik in 1957 to Apollo 11 in 1969: Soviet firsts, America's response and NASA, Kennedy's Moon goal, and how it ended in cooperation.
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The Taiping Rebellion: China’s Deadliest Civil War of the 1800s
How a failed examination candidate founded the Heavenly Kingdom, held Nanjing for eleven years and was defeated by provincial armies, in the order it happened.
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The Thirty Years’ War: Religion, Power and the Peace of Westphalia
The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) began as a Bohemian revolt and became a European war. Its causes, phases, uncertain death toll and the 1648 peace.
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Who Were the Vikings? Raids, Trade and Settlement
Scandinavian raiders, traders and settlers from 793 to 1066: Lindisfarne, the Rus and Varangians, Iceland and Greenland, and the tree rings that date Vinland.
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Time-in-Force: Day Orders vs Good-’Til-Canceled
How long an order stays open: day orders, good-til-canceled, IOC, fill-or-kill, all-or-none and on-open or on-close, plus what happens on dividends and splits.
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T+1 Settlement: When a Stock Trade Actually Completes
Most US stock trades settle one business day after the trade date. What settlement means, what changed in May 2024, and why it matters for cash accounts.