You don't show options, so here are the different definitions
1. "the study of past events, particularly in human affairs."
2. "the whole series of past events connected with someone or something."
3. "a continuous, typically chronological, record of important or public events or of a particular trend or institution."
Mercantilism, Slave trade, colonies, raw materials, maufacturing
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Significant Civil War Battles
April 12, 1861: Battle of Fort Sumter. ...
June 30, 1861: Battle of Philippi. ...
July 21, 1861: First Battle of Bull Run/First Battle of Manassas. ...
August 28-29, 1861: Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries. ...
October 21, 1861: Battle of Ball's Bluff. ...
November 7, 1861: Battle of Belmont. ...
January 19, 1862: Battle of Mill Springs.
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I learned this not too long ago too!
I think the answer you are looking for is parallax. Hipparchus used parallax to not only measure the distance from the sun, but also the moon. Although he was off my a couple hundred yards or so he actually measured the moon before the sun.