lunes, 19 de noviembre de 2012

Multiple-choice gap-filling


WOMEN IN HISTORY
Is the history of the world in    need of correction?
Some historians, mostly women, argue that insufficient 
   has been paid to a very important group: women.
These historians    history textbooks to be revised
so that they show accurately the role    by women.
  the history books, cavemen   most of the food for their
families through hunting animals. But the   shows that 80% of the diet of
prehistoric humans was vegetarian and it was collected by females.  ,
women's efforts in fighting in wars or leading revolutions have been ignored. Textbooks 
concentrate on men such as Hannibal or Che Guevara and neglect  
women such as Théroigne de Méricourt, an opera singer who led the storming of the
Bastille in 1789, or Mariya Bochkareva, a Bolshevik who organised a well-trained and
  successful troop of 2,000 fighting women during the Russian revolution in 
1917.  Women rulers are also forgotten. Between 962 and 1582 there were at least 16
women rulers in countries   from Italy to Angola.

Women   up half the human  . If there is no    to their
contribution to history in the textbooks, then the real story is not being told. However
many male historians   that important female figures have been kept 
the history books.

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